Soil erosion as a driver of land-use change

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 467-481

  Bakker, Martha M ^a   Govers, Gerard ^b   Kosmas, Costas ^c   Vanacker, Veerle ^a   Oost, Kristof Van ^b   Rounsevell, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Crop productivity; Land abandonment; Land use change; Lesvos; Logistic regression; Path analysis; Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; CROP PRODUCTION; LAND USE CHANGE; RANGELAND; SOIL EROSION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; LESBOS; NORTHERN AEGEAN; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 11844260045     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2004.07.009     Document Type: Article

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