caa a22 4500 445806761 CHVBK 20180317145158.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10745-011-9409-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10745-011-9409-8 Continuity and Distinction in Land Cover Across a Rural Stretch of the U.S.-Mexico Border [Elektronische Daten] [Mariela Soto-Berelov, Kenneth Madsen] Differences in land use and land cover often coincide with social and political borders. Using vegetation indices and a visual inspection of Landsat imagery, we consider a rural section of the central Arizona-Sonora border dominated by government-owned land on the U.S. side and seek to understand where and why cross-border land cover continuity exists in some places while distinction exists in others. Land cover distinctions are attributed largely to differential population and economic pressures in the two countries, but are also exacerbated by social and political distinctions. By contrast, historical relations, common use of the land, and relative remoteness provide cross-border homogeneity in land use and land cover in rural areas, especially on the Tohono O'odham reservation. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011 Land use/cover change nationallicence Vegetation indices nationallicence Remote sensing nationallicence U.S.-Mexico border nationallicence Tohono O'odham nationallicence Soto-Berelov Mariela School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University, 85287, Tempe, AZ, USA aut Madsen Kenneth Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, 43055, Newark, OH, USA aut Human Ecology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 39/4(2011-08-01), 509-526 0300-7839 39:4<509 2011 39 10745 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-011-9409-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-011-9409-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Soto-Berelov Mariela School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University, 85287, Tempe, AZ, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Madsen Kenneth Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, 43055, Newark, OH, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Human Ecology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 39/4(2011-08-01), 509-526 0300-7839 39:4<509 2011 39 10745 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer