Research Progress on Changes in Land Use and Land Cover in the Western Himalayas (India) and Effects on Ecosystem Services

Mondal, Partho Protim; Zhang, Yili

doi:10.3390/su10124504

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“…In addition, it is acknowledged that intensive LUCC negatively impact the environment and the socioeconomic conditions 18 . In most drying lake ecosystems, the insu cient and irrational LUCC cause a variety of environmental pressures and issues that further complicate global crises such as food insecurity 19 . In the context of LUB, the results of this study indicate that extensive LUCC have occurred in the past three decades.…”

Section: Anthropogenic Pressurementioning

confidence: 99%

Scenario-based Analysis of the Impacts of Lake Drying on Sustainable Food Production

Feizizzadeh¹,

Lakes²,

Omarzadeh

et al. 2021

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In many parts of the world, lake drying is caused by water management failures, while the phenomenon is exacerbated by climate change. Lake Urmia in Northern Iran is drying up at such an alarming rate that it is considered to be a dying lake, which has dire consequences for the whole region. While salinization caused by a dying lake is well understood and known to influence the local and regional food production, other potential impacts are as yet unknown. Food production in the Urmia region has predominantly been regionally-oriented and sustainable, particularly in terms of water demand. To explore current and projected impacts of the dying lake on sustainable food production (SFP) we investigated changes in climatic conditions, land use, and land degradation for the period 1990-2020. We examined the environmental impacts of lake drought on SFP through an integrated scenario-based geoinformation framework. The results show that the lake drought has significantly affected food production and has reduced the proportion of SFP over the past three decades. Based on a combination of cellular automata and Markov modelling, the conditions are projected for the next 30 years and are predicted to exacerbate further. To mitigate these issues and support SFP, this research provides some policy recommendations and results for tangible action plans. We consider the modification of cropping patterns towards low water demand crops as one the cheapest and most efficient solutions for reducing the overall agricultural water consumption.

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Section: Anthropogenic Pressurementioning

confidence: 99%

Scenario-based Analysis of the Impacts of Lake Drying on Sustainable Food Production

Feizizzadeh¹,

Lakes²,

Omarzadeh

et al. 2021

Preprint

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“…In addition, intensive LUCC can negatively impact the environment and socioeconomic conditions 18 . In most drying lake ecosystems, the insufficient and irrational LUCC cause a variety of environmental pressures and issues that further complicate global crises such as food insecurity 19 . In the context of LUB, the results of this study indicate that extensive LUCC have occurred in the past three decades.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Scenario-based analysis of the impacts of lake drying on food production in the Lake Urmia Basin of Northern Iran

Feizizadeh

Lakes

Omarzadeh

et al. 2022

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In many parts of the world, lake drying is caused by water management failures, while the phenomenon is exacerbated by climate change. Lake Urmia in Northern Iran is drying up at such an alarming rate that it is considered to be a dying lake, which has dire consequences for the whole region. While salinization caused by a dying lake is well understood and known to influence the local and regional food production, other potential impacts by dying lakes are as yet unknown. The food production in the Urmia region is predominantly regional and relies on local water sources. To explore the current and projected impacts of the dying lake on food production, we investigated changes in the climatic conditions, land use, and land degradation for the period 1990–2020. We examined the environmental impacts of lake drought on food production using an integrated scenario-based geoinformation framework. The results show that the lake drought has significantly affected and reduced food production over the past three decades. Based on a combination of cellular automaton and Markov modeling, we project the food production for the next 30 years and predict it will reduce further. The results of this study emphasize the critical environmental impacts of the Urmia Lake drought on food production in the region. We hope that the results will encourage authorities and environmental planners to counteract these issues and take steps to support food production. As our proposed integrated geoinformation approach considers both the extensive impacts of global climate change and the factors associated with dying lakes, we consider it to be suitable to investigate the relationships between environmental degradation and scenario-based food production in other regions with dying lakes around the world.

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“…The study of plant associations and their classification is related to the field phytosociology while vegetation in the strict sense is the ecological quantification of plant resources (Timilehin et al, 2017;Ali et al, 2018;Veintimilla et al, 2019;Peters et al, 2019). Multilateral relationships exist between vegetation structure and prevailing ecological features like elevation (Sher et al, 2014 ;Haq et al, 2020), topographic heterogeneity (Zhang et al, 2006;Kuma and Shibru, 2015;Zeb et al, 2020;Mondal and Zhang 2018), water availability and soil Physiochemical characteristics (Forzieri et al, 2011;Li et al, 2017) and availability of light (Bonari et al, 2017;Peters et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

Composition and structure of plant communities in the Moist Temperate Forest Ecosystem of the Hindukush Mountains, Pakistan

et al. 2022

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Here, we investigated the relationship between Plant communities and the environment from the moist temperate vegetation of Lakoo mountainous forest District Swat. We sampled data from 162 sampling units (Quadrates) using 1x1m2 for herbs 5x5m2 and shrubs, while 10 x10m2 for trees, systematically considering six elevation gradients between the altitudinal from 1970m to 3095m. We performed statistical analysis like Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) and TWINSPAN (two-way indicator species analysis) for ecological assessment and clustering of plant communities. To check upon the correlation of species (CR) with topographic and edaphic variables we used statistical software PC-ORD version 7. We recognized 264 species plants belonging to thirty families. We recorded key sampling measurements of density, frequency, and cover for all these species which are vital for community description. The results showed Shannon-Winner,s, and Simpson diversity values as 19.18 and 3.17 respectively. The importance value indexes (IVI) were used to identify the leading and rare species of plant in each community or cluster group. In total we recognized eleven different communities as: Berberis- Abies- Bergeni, Picea - Indigofera- Poa,Abies- Parrotiopsis- Poa, Quercus- Viburnum- Poa, Picea- Salix- Primula, Abies- Viburnum- Poa, Viburnum- Taxus- Poa, Pinus- Viburnum- Lithospermum, Abies-Berberis- carex, Pinus- Viburnum- Poa and Parrotiopsis- Picea- Poa through hierarchical cluster analysis (TWINSPAN). CCA analysis revealed that of all studied edaphic and topographic variables altitude, silt, calcium carbonate, and organic matter were the strongest factors determining plant community diversity and composition in each microclimate of the eleven communities. Visually the vegetation of the forest was dominated by small-sized trees followed by shrubs, and regenerates indicating the stage of secondary regeneration. We found severe human interference in disturbing the existing biodiversity, which requires immediate conservation to ensure sustainable management and utilization of natural resources of the Lalkoo moist temperate forest.

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Research Progress on Changes in Land Use and Land Cover in the Western Himalayas (India) and Effects on Ecosystem Services

Cited by 38 publications

References 78 publications

Scenario-based Analysis of the Impacts of Lake Drying on Sustainable Food Production

Scenario-based Analysis of the Impacts of Lake Drying on Sustainable Food Production

Scenario-based analysis of the impacts of lake drying on food production in the Lake Urmia Basin of Northern Iran

Composition and structure of plant communities in the Moist Temperate Forest Ecosystem of the Hindukush Mountains, Pakistan

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