Carpathians

Forest disturbances, forest recovery, and changes in forest types across the Carpathian ecoregion from 1985 to 2010 based on Landsat image composites
Detailed knowledge of forest cover dynamics is crucial for many applications from resource management to ecosystem service assessments. …
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Land-use change in the Caucasus during and after the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Socioeconomic shocks can shape future land-use trajectories. Armed conflicts are an extreme form of a socioeconomic shock, but our …
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Agricultural land change in the Carpathian ecoregion after the breakdown of socialism and expansion of the European Union
Widespread changes of agricultural land use occurred in Eastern Europe since the collapse of socialism and the European Union’s …
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Continued loss of temperate old-growth forests in the Romanian Carpathians despite an increasing protected area network
Old-growth forests around the world are vanishing rapidly and have been lost almost completely from the European temperate forest …
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Forest restitution and protected area effectiveness in post-socialist Romania
The effectiveness of protected areas can diminish during times of pronounced socio-economic and institutional change. Our goals were to …
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Potential habitat connectivity of European bison (Bison bonasus) in the Carpathians
Habitat connectivity is important for the survival of species that occupy habitat patches too small to sustain an isolated population. …
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Prices, Land Tenure Institutions, and Geography: A Matching Analysis of Farmland Abandonment in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe
This paper uses remote sensing data from 1989 to 2000 to examine the impacts of price liberalization, land tenure, and biophysical …
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Using annual time-series of Landsat images to assess the effects of forest restitution in post-socialist Romania
The increasing availability of the Landsat image archive and the development of approaches to make full use of these data provide novel …
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Cost-effectiveness of strategies to establish a European bison metapopulation in the Carpathians
Where populations are confined to fragmented, human-dominated landscapes, preventing declines and extirpations will often rely on …
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Patterns and drivers of post-socialist farmland abandonment in Western Ukraine
Farmland abandonment restructures rural landscapes in many regions worldwide in response to gradual industrialization and urbanization. …
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