Assessment of spatial and temporal dynamics of tropical forest cover: A case study in Malkangiri district of Orissa, India

Journal of Geographical Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 176-192

  Pattanaik, Chiranjibi ^a   Reddy, C Sudhakar ^b   Reddy, P Manikya ^c  

^a SÁLIM ALI CENTRE FOR ORNITHOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY   (India)

^b National Remote Sensing Centre   (India)

^c OSMANIA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

deforestation; forest dynamics; GIS remote sensing; Malkangiri; Orissa; tropical forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952544283     PISSN: 1009637X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11442-011-0837-6     Document Type: Article

References (65)

1. Bawa K S, Dayanandan S, 1997. Socioeconomic factors and tropical deforestation. Nature, 386: 562-563.
2. Brooks T M, Pimm S L, Collar N J, 1997. Deforestation predicts the number of threatened birds in insular Southeast Asia. Conservation Biology, 11: 382-394.
3. Brown D G, 2003. Land use and forest cover on private parcels in the Upper Midwest USA, 1970 to 1990. Landscape Ecology, 18: 777-790.
4. Burgess R L, Sharpe D M, 1981. Forest Island Dynamics in Man-Dominated Landscapes, New York: Springer-Verlag, p-310.
5. Burgi M, Russell E W B, 2001. Integrative methods to study landscape changes. Land Use Policy, 18: 9-16.
6. Champion H G, Seth S K, 1968. A Revised Survey of the Forest Types of India, Delhi: Manager of Publications.
7. Cohen W B, Spies T A, Fiorella M, 1995. Estimating the age and structure of forest in a multi-ownership landscape in western Oregon, USA. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 16: 721-746.
8. Curtis J T, 1956. The modification of mid-latitude grasslands and forests by man. In: Thomas W L (ed.), Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 721-736.
9. Doygun H, Alphan H, 2006. Monitoring urbanization of Iskenderun, Turkey and its negative implications. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 114: 145-155.
10. Dunn R R, 2004. Recovery of faunal communities during tropical forest regeneration. Conservation Biology, 18: 302-309.
11. Echeverria C, Coomes D, Salas J et al., 2006. Rapid deforestation and fragmentation of Chilean temperate forests. Biological Conservation, 130: 481-494.
12. Flamenco-Sandoval A, Ramos M M, Masera O R, 2007. Assessing implications of land-use and land-cover change dynamics for conservation of a highly diverse tropical rain forest. Biological Conservation, 138: 131-145.
13. Food and Agriculture Organization, 1993. Forest Resources Assessment 1990. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome.
14. Food and Agriculture Organization, 2001. Global Forest Resource Assessment 2000. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome.
15. Forest Survey of India, 1988. State of Forest Report 1987, Forest Survey of India, Dehra Dun, p-86.
16. Forest Survey of India, 2000. State of Forest Report 1999, Forest Survey of India, Dehra Dun, p-130.
17. Forest Survey of India, 2005. State of Forest Report 2005, Forest Survey of India, Dehra Dun, p-21.
18. Geist H, Lambin E, 2001. What Drives Tropical Deforestation? A Meta-Analysis of Proximate and Underlying Causes of Deforestation Based on Subnational Case Study Evidence. LUCC Report Series No. 4, Luovain-Neuve, LUCC International Project Office.
19. Global Land Cover Facility (GLCF). http://glcfapp. umiacs. umd. edu: 8080/esdi/index. jsp.
20. Hietala-Koivu R, 1999. Agricultural landscape change: A case study in Ylane, southwest Finland. Landscape Urban Planning, 46: 103-108.
21. Houghton R A, Boone R D, Melillo J M et al., 1985. Net flux of carbon dioxide from tropical forests in 1980. Nature, 316: 617-620.
22. Hunt A, Ditzer T, 2001. Long-term impacts of logging in a tropical rain forest: A simulation study. Forest Ecology and Management, 142: 33-51.
23. Imbernon J, Branthomme A, 2001. Characterization of landscape patterns of deforestation in tropical rain forests. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 22: 1753-1765.
24. Jayakumar S, Arockiasamy D I, Britto S J, 2002. Conserving forests in the Eastern Ghats through remote sensing and GIS: A case study in Kolli hills. Current Science, 82: 1259-1267.
25. Jensen J R, 1996. Introductory Digital Image Processing: A Remote Sensing Perspective, 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, Prentice Hall, New Jersey.
26. Jha C S, Dutt C B S, Bawa K S, 2000. Deforestation and land use changes in Western Ghats, India. Current Science, 79: 231-238.
27. Jha C S, Goparaju L, Tripathi A et al., 2005. Forest fragmentation and its impact on species diversity: An analysis using remote sensing and GIS. Biodiversity and Conservation, 14: 1681-1698.
28. Jha C S, Unni N V M, 1994. Digital change detection of forest conversion of a dry tropical Indian forest region. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 15: 2543-2552.
29. Keles S, Sivrikaya F, Cakir G et al., 2007. Urbanization and forest cover change in regional directorate of Trabzon forestry from 1975 to 2000 using landsat data. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 140: 1-14.
30. Laurance W F, 1999. Reflections on the tropical deforestation crisis. Biological Conservation, 91: 109-117.
31. Liu Q J, Li X R, Ma Z Q et al., 2005. Monitoring forest dynamics using satellite imagery: A case study in natural reserve of Changbai Mountain in China. Forest Ecology and Management, 210: 25-37.
32. Mander Ü, Mikk M, Külvik M, 1999. Ecological and low intensity agriculture as contributors to landscape and biological diversity. Landscape Urban Planning, 46: 169-177.
33. Mas J F, Velázquez A, Dýáz-Gallegos J R et al., 2004. Assessing land use/cover changes: A nationalwide multidate spatial database for Mexico. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 5: 249-261.
34. Mayers N, 1992. The Primary Source: Tropical Forests and Our Future. New York: Norton.
35. Mena C F, Bilsborrow R E, McClain M E, 2006. Socio-economic drivers of deforestation in Northern Eucadorian Amazon. Environmental Management, 37: 802-815.
36. Menon S, Bawa K S, 1997. Applications of geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, and a landscape ecology approach to biodiversity conservation in the Western Ghats. Current Science, 73: 134-145.
37. Mertens B, Lambin E F, 2000. Land-cover-change trajectories in Southern Cameroon. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 90(3): 467-494.
38. Molofsky J, Hall C A S, Myers N, 1985. A comparison of tropical forest surveys, U. S. Department of Energy, Washington DC, p-66.
39. Myers N, 1980. Conservation of tropical moist forests (report to National Academy of Sciences), National Research Council, Washington DC, p-205.
40. Myers N, 1985. Tropical deforestation and species extinctions: The latest news. Futures, 17: 451-463.
41. Nagashima K, Sands R, Whyte A G D et al., 2002. Regional landscape change as a consequence of plantation forestry expansion: An example in the Nelson region, New Zealand. Forest Ecology and Management, 163: 245-261.
42. Natarajan D, Britto S J, Balaguru B et al., 2004. Identification of conservation priority sites using remote sensing and GIS: A case study from Chitteri hills, Eastern Ghats, Tamil Nadu. Current Science, 86: 1316-1323.
43. NRSA, 1983. Nationwide mapping of forest and non-forest areas using Landsat false color composite for the period 1972-75 and 1980-82. National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad.
44. Pimm S L, Ayres M, Balmford A et al., 2001. Environment: Can we defy nature's end? Science, 293: 2207-2208.
45. Pimm S L, Russel G J, Gittleman J L et al., 1995. The future of biodiversity. Science, 269: 347-350.
46. Prakash A, Gupta R P, 1998. Land-use mapping and change detection in a coal mining area: A case study in the Jharia coalfield, India. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 19: 391-410.
47. Prance G T, 1982. Forest refuges: Evidence from woody angiosperms. In: Prance G T (ed.), Biological Diversification in the Tropics. New York: Columbia University Press, 137-157.
48. Puyravaud J P, 2003. Standardizing the evaluation of the annual rate of deforestation. Forest Ecology Management, 177: 593-596.
49. Reddy C S, Rao K R M, Pattanaik Chiranjibi et al., 2008. Assessment of large-scale deforestation in Nawarangpur district, Orissa, India: A remote sensing based study. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, doi: 10. 1007/s10661-008-0400-9.
50. Roy P S, Dutt C B S, Joshi P K, 2002. Tropical forest resource assessment and monitoring. Tropical Ecology, 43: 21-37.
51. Sãnchez-Azofeifa G A, Harriss R C, Skole D L, 2001. Deforestation in Costa Rica: A quantitative analysis using remote sensing imagery. Biotropica, 33: 378-384.
52. Sader S A, Hepinstall D J H, Coan M et al., 2001. Forest change monitoring of a remote biosphere reserve. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 22: 1937-1950.
53. SAF, 1983. Terminology of Forest Science Technology, Practice and Products, Society of America Foresters, Bethesda, Maryland, p-370.
54. Sala O E, Chapin F S, Armesto J J et al., 2000. Global biodiversity scenarios for the year 2100. Science, 287: 1770-1774.
55. Skole D, Tucker C, 1993. Tropical deforestation and habitat fragmentation in the Amazon: satellite data from 1978 to 1988. Science, 260: 1905-1909.
56. Srivastava S, Singh T P, Kushwaha S P S et al., 2002. Mapping of large-scale deforestation in Sonitpur district, Assam. Current Science, 82: 1479-1484.
57. Staus N, Strittholt J, Dellasala D et al., 2002. Rate and patterns of forest disturbance in the Klamath-Siskiyou ecoregion, USA between 1972 and 1992. Landscape Ecology, 17: 455-470.
58. Steininger M, Tucker C, Ersts P et al., 2001. Clearance and fragmentation of tropical deciduous forest in the Tierras Bajas, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Conservation Biology, 15: 856-866.
59. Turner I M, Corlett T, 1996. The conversion value of small, isolated fragments of lowland tropical rain forest. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 11: 330-333.
60. Velázquez A, Mas J F, Bocco G, Palacio J L, 2002. Land cover mapping to obtain a current profile of deforestation in México. Unasylva, 53: 37-40.
61. Veldkamp A, Lambin E F, 2001. Predicting land-use change. Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment, 85: 1-6.
62. Zhao B, Nakagoshi N, Chen JK et al., 2003. The impact of urban planning on land use and land cover in Pudong of Shanghai, China. Journal of Environment Science, 15: 205-214.
63. Zheng D, Wallin D O, Hao Z, 1997. Rates and patterns of landscape change between 1972 and 1988 in the Changbai Mountain area of China and North Korea. Landscape Ecology, 12: 241-254.
64. Zhou Z, 2000. Landscape changes in a rural area in China. Landscape Urban Planning, 47: 33-38.
65. Zipperer W C, Burgess R L, Nyland R D, 1990. Patterns of deforestation and deforestation in different landscape types in central New York. Forest Ecology and Management, 36: 103-117.