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No overall effect of urbanization on nest-dwelling arthropods of great tits (Parus major) University of Antwerp
Urbanization has been shown to strongly affect community composition of various taxa with potentially strong shifts in ecological interactions, including those between hosts and parasites. We investigated the effect of urbanization on the composition of arthropods in nests of great tits in Flanders, Belgium. These nests contain taxonomically and functionally diverse arthropod communities including parasites, predators, detritivores and ...
Revealing the impact of water conservancy projects and urbanization on hydrological cycle based on the distribution of hydrogen and oxygen isotopes in water KU Leuven
In recent years, the development and utilization of water resources have imposed great impacts on hydrological characteristics and ecological environment. In this paper, methods based on stable isotopes were used to analyze the cumulative effect of water projects and urbanization on the hydrological cycle in Qingbaijiang River Basin. Isotope evidence shows that the hydrological processes affected by water regulation and urbanized runoff ...
The impact of urbanization on agricultural dynamics: a case study in Belgium KU Leuven
Urbanization leads to a continuous loss of agricultural land, both directly under the form of land take, and indirectly through the use of agricultural land for non-productive rural activities like recreation, horse keeping or hobby farming. These urbanization processes put pressure on farmers, making farming activities harder through reduced agricultural land, negative externalities and the competition for land. To estimate possible future ...
Home chemical and microbial transitions across urbanization Ghent University
Violent conflict and urbanization in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo : the city as a safe haven Ghent University
Modeling the impact of urbanization on land-use change in Bahir Dar City, Ethiopia University of Antwerp Ghent University KU Leuven
The fast-paced urbanization of recent decades entails that many regions are facing seemingly uncontrolled land-use changes (LUCs) that go hand in hand with a range of environmental and socio-economic challenges. In this paper, we use an integrated cellular automata-Markov chain (CA-MC) model to analyze and predict the urban expansion of and its impact on LUC in the city of Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. To this end, the research marshals high-resolution ...
The local climate impact of an African city during clear-sky conditions : implications of the recent urbanization in Kampala (Uganda) Ghent University KU Leuven
This study aims at assessing and understanding the impact of recent urbanization on the (surface) urban heat island ((S)UHI) under clear-sky conditions in a tropical African city using different sources of remotely sensed data sets together with an urban climate model (UCM). The observed SUHI during clear sky conditions is found to be about 4 degrees C on average over the capital city of Kampala, Uganda. The UCM, consisting of TERRA_URB embedded ...
Urbanization drives cross-taxon declines in abundance and diversity at multiple spatial scales Hasselt University University of Antwerp Institute of Tropical Medicine Ghent University Meise Botanic Garden KU Leuven Research Institute for Nature and Forest Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The increasing urbanization process is hypothesized to drastically alter (semi-)natural environments with a concomitant major decline in species abundance and diversity. Yet, studies on this effect of urbanization, and the spatial scale at which it acts, are at present inconclusive due to the large heterogeneity in taxonomic groups and spatial scales at which this relationship has been investigated among studies. Comprehensive studies analysing ...
Spatiotemporal dynamics of ecosystem service value determined by land-use changes in the urbanization of Anhui province, China Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Urbanization-induced land-use change will lead to variations in the demand and supply of ecosystem services, thus significantly affecting regional ecosystem services. The continuous degradation of ecosystem functions has become a serious problem for humanity to solve. Therefore, quantitative analysis of the corresponding impact of land-use change on ecosystem service value (ESV) is important to socio-economic development and ecological ...