Socioecological gradients and land-use fragmentation: a cross-site comparative analysis
Investigator(s)
Principal investigator:
Christopher Boone, Arizona State University, Phoenix, USA
E-mail: cgboone(at)asu.edu
Abstract
Our study brings together social scientists at five LTER sites with herbaceous cover and where landscape fragmentation is ongoing. The ecosystems at these five sites are all strongly regulated by variations in water resource availability, with four being semi-arid to arid. The study will first evaluate the explanatory power of the magnitude and rates of change of water provisioning, population, and urbanization on the present degree of land fragmentation, defined by land cover, land use, and land ownership.
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