Agricultural land abandonment and its impacts on landscape features have been a striking
characteristic of many European rural areas over the last decades. Although previous …

Environmental and socio-economic developments induce land-use changes with potentially
negative impacts on human well-being. To counteract undesired developments, a profound …

Climate change has been associated with both latitudinal and elevational shifts in species'
ranges. The extent, however, to which climate change has driven recent range shifts …

Local biodiversity trends over time are likely to be decoupled from global trends, as local
processes may compensate or counteract global change. We analyze 161 long-term …

Urbanisation is one of the major driving forces behind the formation of today's land use
systems. It almost always involves the conversion of land use from non-urban to urban uses …

Global trends in land-use changes, including urbanization and abandonment of rural areas,
have important repercussions for the supply and demand of ecosystem services (ES). In this …

Agricultural abandonment is widespread and growing in many regions worldwide, often
because of agricultural intensification on productive lands, conservation policies, or the …

Landslides as major geo-hazards in Sweden adversely impact on nearby environments and
socio-economics. In this paper, a landslide susceptibility map using a proposed subdivision …

In the last decades, there have been large areas of agricultural land that were abandoned in
Europe, producing significant social and environmental impacts. Land abandonment is a …

Abstract The European Green Deal sets targets for biodiversity, climate change, sustainable
farming, and rural development. For abandoned agricultural lands to contribute to these …