Processes of agricultural expansion and retreat have provoked an emerging global debate
and driven more focused research, due to its socio-environmental consequences. This …

The first goal among the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for 2015
sought to halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffered from …

Farmland abandonment is one of the most important land use changes in the world today
and crucial to the sustainable development of the global environment. The authors carried …

This book begins with a brief account of the extraordinary sequence of events that led to
emergence of grasslands as major vegetation formations that now occupy some of the driest …

Despite a century of study by ecologists, recovery following disturbances (succession) is not
fully understood. This book provides the first global synthesis that compares plant …

Soil recovery, particularly soil organic matter (SOM), after land-use changes is crucial for the
maintenance of ecosystem functioning and sustainability. The objective of this study was to …

The aim of this research was to study the influence of land‐use changes on degradation and
ecological restoration of rangeland soils by quantifying 15 soil attributes and the subsequent …

The CORINE land cover maps present the longest series of land cover maps with a
consistent class labelling system and date back to 1985. This paper presents the results of …

Soil degradation is currently one of the major worldwide environmental problems, being
land abandonment one of its main causes. In the last decades an important number of …

Assessing the degree to which degraded soils can be recovered is essential for evaluating
the effects of adopted restoration measures. The objective of this study was to determine the …