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Differences in forest disturbance among land ownership types in Poland during and after socialism
Forest use can increase substantially during periods of societal change, but it is unclear how harvesting rates differ among different …
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Geomatics-based characterization of spatial and temporal trends in heterogeneous Mediterranean rangelands of Northern Greece
The county of Lagadas in northern Greece is typical for heterogeneous Mediterranean rangelands embedded within a patchwork of land use …
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How pollution legacies and land use histories shape post-communist forest cover trends in the Western Carpathians
Forests that encompass the border triangle of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia currently suffer from centuries of inadequate …
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Land use change in Southern Romania after the collapse of socialism
The drastic socio-economic and political changes that occurred after the breakdown of socialism in Eastern Europe triggered widespread …
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Lost in transition: determinants of post-socialist cropland abandonment in Romania
The transition from command to market-oriented economies drastically affected land ownership and land management in Eastern Europe and …
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Adaptation of a grazing gradient concept to heterogeneous Mediterranean rangelands using cost surface modelling
Livestock grazing has been an important factor in shaping Mediterranean rangelands. Despite their long history of utilisation, recent …
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Separating grassland and shrub vegetation by multidate pixel-adaptive spectral mixture analysis
Monitoring and assessment of land degradation and the processes driving it require effective change indicators at appropriate scales …
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