132815 20260217205456.0 doi 10.3390/su16041566 sideral 137731 ART-2024-137731 eng Urgilez-Clavijo, Andrea Comprehensive Framework for Analysing the Intensity of Land Use and Land Cover Change in Continental Ecuadorian Biosphere Reserves 2024 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted The conventional methods of land use and land cover (LULC) analysis are frequently based on crosstabulation matrices. However, this analysis becomes complex when including sites with multiple management zones and categories at different time points. This is challenging regarding data processing and the presentation of numerous results. We transformed the graphical representation of conventional Intensity Analysis to assess and compare the intensity and magnitude of LULC changes in six Continental Ecuadorian Biosphere Reserves at three levels: interval, category, and transition, and at three time intervals. A dimension reduction strategy was used to convert multiple bar charts into three composite heat maps. The results confirm the global conservation effectiveness in the core zones among the biosphere reserves with less than 10% change, but worrisome dynamics were detected in buffers and transitions with a change of up to 10% for all periods. Deforestation and agriculture were detected as the most relevant land processes. This work highlights the dimension reduction by summarizing 17, 51, and 312 bar charts from conventional Intensity Analysis in three composite heat maps, one for each level of analysis. Systematic suspicious transitions occurred in the water body category because of its dynamics and misclassification in LULC maps. info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.es 3.3 2024 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 178 / 376 = 0.473 2024 Q2 T2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 80 / 193 = 0.415 2024 Q2 T2 GREEN & SUSTAINABLE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 67 / 103 = 0.65 2024 Q3 T2 GREEN & SUSTAINABLE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 67 / 103 = 0.65 2024 Q3 T2 0.688 2024 Geography, Planning and Development 2024 Q1 Energy Engineering and Power Technology 2024 Q2 Environmental Science (miscellaneous) 2024 Q2 Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 2024 Q2 Hardware and Architecture 2024 Q2 Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 2024 Q2 Computer Networks and Communications 2024 Q2 7.7 2024 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Rivas-Tabares, David Gobin, Anne Riva Fernández, Juan Ramón de la Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-2615-270X 3006 010 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Geograf. Ordenac.Territ. Área Análisis Geográfico Regi. 16, 4 (2024), 1566 [21 pp.] Sustainability (Basel) Sustainability (Switzerland) 2071-1050 4675950 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/132815/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 2575622 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/132815/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:132815 articulos driver 2026-02-17-20:20:31 ARTICLE