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Coupling Land Use, Land-Cover Changes and Ecosystem Processes in Miombo Woodlands (1997-2000)

Coordinator:                Prof. P.G.H. Frost

Funding:                       National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Collaborating institutions:         

• Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia  

This project involves the use of remote sensing, ground data collection, and ecological modelling to document and interpret changes in land use and land cover in miombo ecosystems. The study is aimed at understanding both the causes and the consequences of these changes, particularly their contribution to global environmental change and how the anticipated broader-scale changes in climate in turn might affect ecological functioning and socio-economic conditions in southern central Africa.