Cultural landscapes and attributes of “culturalness” in protected areas: An exploratory assessment in Greece

V Vlami, IP Kokkoris, S Zogaris, C Cartalis… - Science of the total …, 2017 - Elsevier
Cultural landscapes are poorly inventoried and evaluated in protected natural areas. This
study presents a novel procedure to assess cultural landscape features and their cultural …

Grazing systems and biodiversity in Mediterranean areas: Spain, Italy and Greece

R Caballero, F Fernandez-Gonzalez, RP Badia… - Pastos, 2009 - polired.upm.es
Resumen Large Scale Grazing Systems (LSGS) are much more than large expanses of
seminatural vegetation. LSGS are complex structures emerging from the interaction of …

Post-fire management of serotinous pine forests

J de las Heras, D Moya, JA Vega, E Daskalakou… - Post-fire management …, 2012 - Springer
The current chapter describes the ecological context and post-fire management practices for
the most important and fire-prone coniferous tree species in the Mediterranean Basin, the …

Ecosystem services supply in protected mountains of Greece: setting the baseline for conservation management

IP Kokkoris, EG Drakou, J Maes… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The mapping and assessment of ecosystems and their services, an initiative under the EU
Biodiversity Strategy to 2020, sets the basis for national ecosystem assessments in EU …

[HTML][HTML] Agroforestry and the Climate Crisis: Prioritizing Biodiversity Restoration for Resilient and Productive Mediterranean Landscapes

R Tsiakiris, K Stara, Y Kazoglou, P Kakouros… - Forests, 2024 - mdpi.com
This study deals with the future of the traditional agroforestry systems (TAFSs) in the
northern Mediterranean Basin. Important productive systems, such as ancient non-irrigated …

The Oregano plants of Chios Island (Greece): Essential oils of Origanum onites L. growing wild in different habitats

A Stefanaki, CM Cook, T Lanaras, S Kokkini - Industrial Crops and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Oregano herbs have wide culinary uses and industrial applications due to the high
antioxidant and other activity of their main essential oil compound, carvacrol. Among the …

Natura 2000 habitat types of Greece evaluated in the light of distribution, threat and responsibility

P Dimopoulos, E Bergmeier, P Fischer - Biology and environment …, 2006 - muse.jhu.edu
Greece harbours 85 Annex I habitat types and 30 additional types selected from a national
perspective. There are 359 Natura 2000 sites containing 92 habitat types in Greece, of …

The role of grasslands in the less favoured areas of Mediterranean Europe

C Porqueddu, RAM Melis, A Franca, F Sanna… - 2017 - citarea.cita-aragon.es
Mediterranean extensive grassland-based systems were in the past and are currently
subjected to the contrasting threats of intensification and abandonment, especially in less …

Towards the use of ecological heterogeneity to design reserve networks: a case study from Dadia National Park, Greece

V Kati, K Poirazidis, M Dufrêne, JM Halley… - Biodiversity and …, 2010 - Springer
In this paper, we present a novel approach for using ecological heterogeneity in reserve
design. We measured five ecological heterogeneity indices (EHI) and we used a database …

[PDF][PDF] The effect of altitudinal zone on soil properties, species composition and forage production in a subalpine grassland in northwest Greece

C Roukos, C Koutsoukis, K Akrida-Demertzi… - Applied ecology and …, 2017 - aloki.hu
The impact of altitudinal gradient on soil properties, species composition and forage
production was assessed in the subalpine grassland of “Kostilata” in northwestern Greece …