Manifestations and underlying drivers of agricultural land use change in Europe

J Van Vliet, HLF de Groot, P Rietveld… - Landscape and Urban …, 2015 - Elsevier
Agricultural land use in Europe has changed considerably in the last decades. However, our
understanding of agricultural land use changes, especially changes in land use intensity, is …

Mediterranean water resources in a global change scenario

JM García-Ruiz, JI López-Moreno… - Earth-Science …, 2011 - Elsevier
Mediterranean areas of both southern Europe and North Africa are subject to dramatic
changes that will affect the sustainability, quantity, quality, and management of water …

Space–time process and drivers of land abandonment in Europe

T Lasanta, J Arnáez, N Pascual, P Ruiz-Flaño… - Catena, 2017 - Elsevier
Farmland abandonment in Europe is a major problem because of environmental,
socioeconomic and landscape implications. In this paper, a general view of the extent of …

Terraced landscapes: From an old best practice to a potential hazard for soil degradation due to land abandonment

P Tarolli, F Preti, N Romano - Anthropocene, 2014 - Elsevier
Among the most evident landscape signatures of the human fingerprint, the terraces related
to agricultural activities are of great importance. This technique is widely used in various …

[HTML][HTML] Depopulation impacts on ecosystem services in Mediterranean rural areas

D Bruno, R Sorando, B Álvarez-Farizo, C Castellano… - Ecosystem Services, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite the exponential increase in human population at global scale, some rural areas
have experienced a progressive abandonment over the last decades. Under particular …

Mountain Mediterranean landscape evolution caused by the abandonment of traditional primary activities: a study of the Spanish Central Pyrenees

T Lasanta-Martínez, SM Vicente-Serrano… - Applied …, 2005 - Elsevier
This paper analyses changes in plant cover in a valley of the Spanish Central Pyrenees
during the second half of the 20th century. The role played by the extensification of farming …

Land use and land cover change after agricultural abandonment

R Poyatos, J Latron, P Llorens - Mountain research and development, 2003 - BioOne
Land cover mapping obtained from photointerpretation of aerial photographs and
orthophotographs was used to quantify land cover changes between 1957 and 1996 in a …

Pace and pattern of recent treeline dynamics: response of ecotones to climatic variability in the Spanish Pyrenees

JJ Camarero, E Gutiérrez - Climatic change, 2004 - Springer
Treeline ecotones are regarded as sensitive monitors of the recent climatic warming.
However, it has been suggested that their sensitivity depends more on changes in tree …

Land‐use legacies rather than climate change are driving the recent upward shift of the mountain tree line in the P yrenees

A Ameztegui, L Coll, L Brotons… - Global Ecology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To assess the effects of climate change, past land uses and physiography on the current
position of the tree line in the C atalan P yrenees and its dynamics between 1956 and 2006 …

Relation between land cover and landslide susceptibility in Val d'Aran, Pyrenees (Spain): Historical aspects, present situation and forward prediction

H Shu, M Hürlimann, R Molowny-Horas… - Science of the total …, 2019 - Elsevier
The effects of land use and land cover (LULC) dynamics on landslide susceptibility are not
fully understood. This study evaluates the influence of LULC on landslide susceptibility and …