[ANFES] 2012-08-12 NRMI: This Issue - Land Cover Mapping in Mexico (Part 3 of 3) and Some Other Good Things.

2012-08-12 NRMI: NATURAL RESOURCE MONITORING ITEMS OF INTEREST

This Issue - Land Cover Mapping in Mexico (Part 3 of 3) and Some Other Good Things.

BUT FIRST, WON’T YOU PLEASE HELP - Effects of Steep slope logging. – Cristina Hubbard writes, “At one point in time, I had an article or report on the effects of steep slope logging, but it seems to lost in the depths of my computer. Does anyone have access to data on this?” If you can help, please contact Cristina at Chrise forestweb.cg@gmail.com.

 LAND COVER MAPPING IN MEXICO (Part 3 of 3). This past May. Justin Fisher wrote “I am looking for a GIS land cover map for Mexico. The more recent the better, but will take anything. I am particularly interested in areas near (25 km) the coast from the TX border to the tip of the Yucatan peninsula.” Here are some sites that may be of interest. If you know of others, please contact Justin at Justin.W.Fischer@APHIS.USDA.GOV

Neeti, Neeti et al. 2012. Mapping seasonal trends in vegetation using AVHRR-NDVI time series in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. Remote Sensing Letters 3(5): 433-442. Abstract. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01431161.2011.616238#preview

Norman, Laura M; Wallace, Cynthia S.A. 2008. Mapping Land Use/Land Cover in the Ambos Nogales Study Area U.S. Geological Survey. Open-File Report 2008-1378. http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2008/1378/

North American Land Change Monitoring System (NALCMS) -
http://www.cec.org/Page.asp?PageID=924&SiteNodeID=565 From Gerardo López Saldaña, Applied GIS RS List.

North American Land Cover 2005 Data Release (2010). http://www.cec.org/newsletter/Newsletter_Mar25_en.html

Ruiz-Luna, Arturo; Berlanga-Robles, César A. 2003. Land use, land cover changes and coastal lagoon surface reduction associated with urban growth in northwest Mexico. Landscape Ecology 18(2): 159-171. Abstract. http://www.springerlink.com/content/g7t2g3623862k5u2/

Schmook, Birgit, et al. 2011. A step-wise land-cover classification of the tropical forests of the Southern Yucatan, Mexico. International Journal of Remote Sensing 32(4): 1139-1164. Abstract. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1963983

Soto-Galera, Ernesto., et al. 2010. Spatial and temporal land cover changes in Terminos Lagoon Reserve, Mexico. Rev. biol. trop v.58 n.2 San José jun. 2010. http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?pid=S0034-77442010000200003&script=sci_arttext and http://www.ots.ac.cr/tropiweb/attachments/volumes/vol58-2/03-Soto-Terminos.pdf

The Environmental Disturbances in the Greater Yucatan (EDGY) http://landchange.rutgers.edu/research.html

U.S.-Mexico Border Geospatial and Mapping Data- http://137.227.231.90/fcc/maps.htm

UNEP 2010. The Latin America and the Caribbean Atlas of Our Changing Environment. Abstract. http://www.unep.org/publications/contents/pub_details_search.asp?ID=4169

Velázque, Alejandro et al. 2003. Land use-cover change processes in highly biodiverse areas: the case of Oaxaca, Mexico. Global Environmental Change 13(3): 175–184. Abstract. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378003000359

Velázquez, A. et al. n.d. Land cover mapping to obtain a current profile of deforestation in Mexico.1 p. http://www.ciga.unam.mx/investigadores/zacatuche/PDF/611Articulos%20de%20investigacion%20en%20revistas%20arbitradas/6113Revistas%20Internacionales%20(incluidas%20en%20indices%20diferentes)/6113-9.pdf

Vester, Henricus F. M., et al. 2007. Land change in the southern Yucatán and Calakmul biosphere reserve: effects on habitat and biodiversity. Ecological Applications 17:989–1003. http://www.public.asu.edu/~bturner4/Vester%20et%20al..pdf

SOME OTHER PUBLICATIONS/URLS OF INTEREST

Arponen, A., et al. 2012. Effects of connectivity and spatial resolution of analyses on conservation prioritization across large extents. Conserv. Biol. 26(2):294-304. Abstract. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22268786

 Bachelet, D., et al. 2011. Climate change impacts on Western Pacific Northwest prairies and savannas. Northwest Sci. 85(2):411-429. http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.3955/046.085.0224

Barberá, C., et al.. 2012. Biodiversity and habitat mapping of Menorca Channel (western Mediterranean): implications for conservation. Biodivers. Conserv. 21(3):701-728. Abstract and Preview. http://www.springerlink.com/content/22054834221w6822/

Bellard, C., et al. 2012. Impacts of climate change on the future of biodiversity. Ecol. Lett. 15(4):365-377. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01736.x/full

Bird, J.P., et al. 2012. Integrating spatially explicit habitat projections into extinction risk assessments: a reassessment of Amazonian avifauna incorporating projected deforestation. Divers. Distrib. 18(3):273-281. Abstract. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00843.x/abstract

Botts, E.A., et al. 2012. Methods to detect species range size change from biological atlas data: a comparison using the South African Frog Atlas Project. Biol. Conserv. 146(1):72-80. Abstract. http://www.citeulike.org/user/kaiserm/article/10178760

Canessa, S., et al. 2012. Integrating variability in detection probabilities when designing wildlife surveys: a case study of amphibians from south-eastern Australia. Biodivers. Conserv. 21(3):729-744. Abstract. http://www.springerlink.com/content/pu8274x073t37362/

Caniglia, R., et al. 2012. An improved procedure to estimate wolf abundance using non-invasive genetic sampling and capture-recapture mixture models. Conserv. Genet. 13(1):53-64. Abstract. http://www.springerlink.com/content/g8p7605656164138/

Clow, David W.et al. 2011. Responses of soil and water chemistry to mountain pine beetle induced tree mortality in Grand County, Colorado, USA. Applied Geochemistry 26: S174–S178. Abstract. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883292711001752. From the Appealist.

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People and Forests E-News – You may access the August 2012 issue at- http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=a79eee76ce1869204bc04a12d&id=b75e2676dc&e=73f2043cf8#publications

SDI Regional Newsletters – The Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Regional Newsletters for July 2012 are now posted on the GSDI home page at http://www.gsdi.org., You may also download them directly as follows:

SDI-Latin America and Caribbean Newsletter - http://portal.gsdi.org/files/?artifact_id=1100 (Spanish); http://portal.gsdi.org/files/?artifact_id=1101 (English); forthcoming (Portuguese)

SDI-Africa Newsletter - http://portal.gsdi.org/files/?artifact_id=1096 (English)

SDI-Asia Pacific Newsletter - http://memberservices.gsdi.org/files/?artifact_id=1099 (English); forthcoming (Chinese)

Past and current SDI Regional newsletters are also accessible in the archives at http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters.php

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