We combined imagery from multiple sources (MODIS, Landsat-5, 7, 8) with land cover data
to test for long-term (1984–2015) greening or browning trends of vegetation in a temperate …

Land abandonment in the Mediterranean mountains since the 20th century has led to a
reduction of ecosystem services, due to revegetation and homogenization of the landscape …

Abstract Mountain regions in Western Europe have gone through a massive rural–urban
migration and the collapse of their traditional socioeconomic system. As a result, forest has …

This is the third in a series of independent research papers attempting to improve the quality
of descriptive data and analysis of tailings facility failures globally focusing on the relative …

The Mediterranean mountainous landscapes have undergone large-scale exploitation for
millennia. In the Central Pyrenees, land abandonment has occurred since the 1950s …

Context Land use legacies of human activities and recent post-abandonment forest
expansion have extensively modified numerous forest landscapes throughout the European …

This review summarizes current understanding of drivers for change and of the impact of
accelerating global changes on mountains, encompassing effects of climate change and …

The surface of many European mountain grasslands is decreasing due to global change
and extensive grazing stands out as a key tool for their conservation. Sound knowledge of …

Woody encroachment has been an ongoing process in the subalpine belt of Mediterranean
mountains, after land abandonment, the disappearance of the transhumant system and the …

Human activities and natural processes over millennia have shaped the forest landscapes of
European mountain ranges. In the Apennines, the second largest range in Italy, the post …