Managing mountainous degraded landscapes after farmland abandonment in the Central Spanish Pyrenees

Environmental Management

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 587-598

  Molinillo, M ^a   Lasanta, T ^b   Garcia Ruiz J M ^b  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Venezuela)

^b INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Abandoned fields; Degraded environments; Plant succession; Runoff; Soil erosion; Spanish Pyrenees

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; EROSION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOIL POLLUTION; SPAIN;

EROSION; LAND RECLAMATION; MANAGEMENT; MORPHOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEDIMENTS; SOILS;

DEGRADED ENVIRONMENTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; LAND ABANDONMENT; MANAGEMENT IMPLICATION; SCRUB CLEARANCE;

SPAIN, PYRENEES;

GENISTA; GENISTA SCORPIUS;

EID: 0030615464     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002679900051     Document Type: Article

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