Machine Learning Classification of Plant Functional Types in Southern African Savannahs Using Worldview-3 Imagery

Authors: Aplin, Paul, Awuah, Kwame T., Marston, Christopher G., Powell, Ian, Smit, Izak P.J.

Source: 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS , 2021 IEEE International. :1604-1607 Jul, 2021

Relation: IGARSS 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium

Land cover change in and around South African protected areas

Authors: Smit, Izak P.J., Maze, Kristal, van Wilgen, Brian W.

Source: In Biological Conservation December 2024 300

Short and long-term fire effects on soil C and N in an African savanna

Authors: Strydom, Tercia, Smit, Izak P.J., van Tol, Johan J.

Source: In Geoderma Regional June 2024 37

A bottom-up practitioner-derived set of Essential Variables for Protected Area management

Authors: Hummel, Herman, Kalle, Valerie, Bienfait, Louise, Boyer, Yolande, Heurich, Marco, Svajda, Juraj, Adamescu, Mihai, Cazacu, Constantin, Medina, Félix Manuel, Morkūnė, Rasa, Razinkovas-Baziukas, Arturas, Poursanidis, Dimitris, Tasevska, Orhideja, Al Malla, Ajman, Stritih, Ana, Rossi, Christian, Arenas-Castro, Salvador, Carvalho-Santos, Claudia, Smit, Izak P.J., Valentini, Emiliana, Xuan, Alessandra Nguyen, Orenstein, Daniel, Provenzale, Antonello, de Wit, Rutger, Hummel, Christiaan

Source: In Environmental and Sustainability Indicators June 2022 14

Appraising strategic adaptive management as a process of organizational learning

Authors: Roux, Dirk J., Novellie, Peter, Smit, Izak P.J., de Kraker, Joop, Culloch-Jones, Samantha Mc, Dziba, Luthando E., Freitag, Stefanie, Pienaar, Danie J.

Source: In Journal of Environmental Management 1 January 2022 301

Sustainability of protected areas: Vulnerabilities and opportunities as revealed by COVID-19 in a national park management agency

Authors: Smith, M. Kyle S., Smit, Izak P.J., Swemmer, Louise K., Mokhatla, Mohlamatsane M., Freitag, Stefanie, Roux, Dirk J., Dziba, Luthando

Source: In Biological Conservation March 2021 255

Cultural ecosystem services as complex outcomes of people–nature interactions in protected areas

Authors: Roux, Dirk J., Smith, M. Kyle S., Smit, Izak P.J., Freitag, Stefanie, Slabbert, Liandi, Mokhatla, Mohlamatsane M., Hayes, Jessica, Mpapane, Nelsiwe P.

Source: In Ecosystem Services June 2020 43

Spatial patterning among savanna trees in high-resolution, spatially extensive data

Authors: Staver, A. Carla, Asner, Gregory P., Rodriguez-Iturbe, Ignacio, Levin, Simon A., Smit, Izak P.J.

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019 May . 116(22), 10681-10685.

Access URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26707131

Finding Common Ground between Adaptive Management and Evidence-Based Approaches to Biodiversity Conservation

Authors: Gillson, Lindsey, Biggs, Harry, Smit, Izak P.J., Virah-Sawmy, Malika, Rogers, Kevin

Source: In Trends in Ecology & Evolution January 2019 34(1):31-44

Protected areas as outdoor classrooms and global laboratories: Intellectual ecosystem services flowing to-and-from a National Park

Authors: Smit, Izak P.J., Roux, Dirk J., Swemmer, Louise K., Boshoff, Nelius, Novellie, Peter

Source: In Ecosystem Services December 2017 28 Part B:238-250

An innovative approach to disentangling the effect of management and environment on tree cover and density of protected areas in African savanna

Authors: Messina, Mario, Cunliffe, Robert, Farcomeni, Alessio, Malatesta, Luca, Smit, Izak P.J., Testolin, Riccardo, Ribeiro, Natasha S., Nhancale, Bruno, Vitale, Marcello, Attorre, Fabio

Source: Forest ecology and management. 419:1-9

Availability: http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&gathStatTab=true&ct=display&fn=search&doc=ETOCvdc_100114728653.0x000001&indx=1&recIds=ETOCvdc_100114728653.0x000001

Expert-derived monitoring thresholds for impacts of megaherbivores on vegetation cover in a protected area

Authors: Smit, Izak P.J., Landman, Marietjie, Cowling, Richard M., Gaylard, Angela

Source: In Journal of Environmental Management 15 July 2016 177:298-305

Assessing the effect of management changes and environmental features on the spatio- temporal pattern of fire in an African Savanna: Fire spatio-temporal pattern

Authors: Attorre, Fabio, Govender, Navashni, Hausmann, Anna, Farcomeni, Alessio, Guillet, Alfredo, Scepi, Edoardo, Smit, Izak P.J., Vitale, Marcello

Source: In Journal for Nature Conservation November 2015 28:1-10

Assessment of the mapping of fractional woody cover in southern African savannas using multi-temporal and polarimetric ALOS PALSAR L-band images

Authors: Urbazaev, Mikhail, Thiel, Christian, Mathieu, Renaud, Naidoo, Laven, Levick, Shaun R., Smit, Izak P.J., Asner, Gregory P., Schmullius, Christiane

Source: In Remote Sensing of Environment 1 September 2015 166:138-153

The ongoing development of a pragmatic and adaptive fire management policy in a large African savanna protected area

Authors: van Wilgen, Brian W., Govender, Navashni, Smit, Izak P.J., MacFadyen, Sandra

Source: In Journal of Environmental Management January 2014 132:358-368

Toward structural assessment of semi-arid African savannahs and woodlands: The potential of multitemporal polarimetric RADARSAT-2 fine beam images

Authors: Mathieu, Renaud, Naidoo, Laven, Cho, Moses A., Leblon, Brigitte, Main, Russell, Wessels, Konrad, Asner, Gregory P., Buckley, Joseph, Van Aardt, Jan, Erasmus, Barend F.N., Smit, Izak P.J.

Source: In Remote Sensing of Environment November 2013 138:215-231

Mapping tree species composition in South African savannas using an integrated airborne spectral and LiDAR system

Authors: Cho, Moses Azong, Mathieu, Renaud, Asner, Gregory P., Naidoo, Laven, van Aardt, Jan, Ramoelo, Abel, Debba, Pravesh, Wessels, Konrad, Main, Russell, Smit, Izak P.J., Erasmus, Barend

Source: In Remote Sensing of Environment October 2012 125:214-226

Management intervention affects river-bound spatial dynamics of elephants

Authors: Smit, Izak P.J., Ferreira, Sam M.

Source: In Biological Conservation 2010 143(9):2172-2181

Do artificial waterholes influence the way herbivores use the landscape? Herbivore distribution patterns around rivers and artificial surface water sources in a large African savanna park

Authors: Smit, Izak P.J., Grant, Cornelia C., Devereux, Bernard J.

Source: In Biological Conservation 2007 136(1):85-99

Reimagining the wilderness ethic to include "people and nature".

Authors: Coetzee, Bernard W.T., Ferriera, Sam M., Smit, Izak P.J.

Source: Biodiversity & Conservation; Sep2022, Vol. 31 Issue 11, p2893-2898, 6p

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