Land use and land cover change after agricultural abandonment: The case of a Mediterranean Mountain area (Catalan Pre-Pyrenees)

Mountain Research and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 362-368

  Poyatos, Rafael ^a   Latron, Jérôme ^a   Llorens, Pilar ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Afforestation; GIS; Land use land cover change; Mediterranean mountains; Photointerpretation; Terraces

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; AGRICULTURAL LAND; GIS; LAND COVER; LAND USE; TERRACE;

CATALONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 1642480930     PISSN: 02764741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1659/0276-4741(2003)023[0362:LUALCC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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