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Land use/land cover changes are occurring at greater pace than ever before in human history. Within the context of land use/land cover change, changes to forest cover are extremely important particularly for rich biodiversity hotspots. This chapter addresses the question: what is the quantum of forest cover loss in the the Hamren sub-division, the Rani-Garbhanga Reserved Forest and the Namdapha National Park. Further forest fragmentation has been assessed using a few indices from landscape metrics.
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This population density maps for Hamren, Rani-Garbhanga and Namdapha were made utilizing the LandScan (2008)™ High Resolution global Population Data Set copyrighted by UT-Battelle, LLC, operator of Oak Ridge National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the United States Department of Energy. The United States Government has certain rights in this Data Set. Neither UT-BATTELLE, LLC NOR THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, NOR ANY OF THEIR EMPLOYEES, MAKES ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, OR ASSUMES ANY LEGAL LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR USEFULNESS OF THE DATA SET.
The DEM used in this chapter was prepared using the ASTER GDEM. ASTER GDEM is a product of METI and NASA.
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Saikia, A. (2014). Land-Use Land-Cover Change. In: Over-Exploitation of Forests. SpringerBriefs in Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01408-1_5
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