[HTML][HTML] Shaping the European Alps: Trends in landscape patterns, biodiversity and ecosystem services

E Tasser, G Leitinger, U Tappeiner, U Schirpke - Catena, 2024 - Elsevier
Landscape appearance is controlled by a range of different environmental and human-
induced factors, although there is still a lack of knowledge about the significance of …

Patterns and drivers of forest landscape change in the Apennines range, Italy

F Malandra, A Vitali, C Urbinati, PJ Weisberg… - Regional Environmental …, 2019 - Springer
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 …

Medium and short term riparian vegetation, island and channel evolution in response to human pressure in a regulated gravel bed river (Piave River, Italy)

L Picco, F Comiti, L Mao, A Tonon, MA Lenzi - Catena, 2017 - Elsevier
During the last decades, several Italian gravel-bed rivers suffered from different types and
levels of human pressures that changed their morphological and vegetation patterns. This …

Reforestation dynamics after land abandonment: A trajectory analysis in Mediterranean mountain landscapes

M Malavasi, ML Carranza, D Moravec… - Regional Environmental …, 2018 - Springer
Reforestation after land abandonment across Mediterranean mountains, together with the
related landscape pattern dynamics and its possible impacts on the natural flora and fauna …

Effects of grazing abandonment and climate change on mountain summits flora: a case study in the Tatra Mts

P Czortek, AE Eycott, JA Grytnes, A Delimat, J Kapfer… - Plant Ecology, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Changes in the local flora of mountains are often explained by climate warming, but
changes in grazing regimes may also be important. The aim of this study was to evaluate …

[HTML][HTML] Recent forest on abandoned agricultural land in the boreonemoral zone–Biodiversity of plants and fungi in relation to historical and present tree cover

B Nordén, SL Olsen, S Haug, G Rusch - Forest Ecology and Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent forests may be an asset for green infrastructure and ecological restoration, but
studies are needed of the variation in forest biodiversity among sites, and possible reasons …

Shrub clearing and extensive livestock as a strategy for enhancing ecosystem services in degraded Mediterranean mid-mountain areas

T Lasanta Martínez, M Cortijos-López, MP Errea… - 2024 - digital.csic.es
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 …

Inland-coastal demographic transformations in a karst area: a case study of the surroundings of Krka National Park (Croatia)

T Telbisz, P Radeljak Kaufmann, N Bočić - Journal of Mountain Science, 2022 - Springer
According to geographic possibilism, environment does not determine socio-economic
development. However, the environment sets certain constraints and limitations for …