Post-socialist forest disturbance in the Carpathian border region of Poland, Slovakia, and Ukraine

Ecological Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1279-1295

  Kuemmerle, Tobias ^a   Hostert, Patrick ^a   Radeloff, Volker C ^b   Perzanowski, Kajetan ^c   Kruhlov, Ivan ^d  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Poland)

^d IVAN FRANKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LVIV   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Central and Eastern Europe; Forest disturbance index; Forest fragmentation; Illegal logging; Land use and land cover change; Landsat; Post socialist transition; Protected areas, effectiveness; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST COVER; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FRAGMENTATION; HARVESTING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LANDSAT; LOGGING (TIMBER); PROTECTED AREA; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

CARPATHIANS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND; SLOVAKIA; UKRAINE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LEGAL ASPECT; METHODOLOGY; POLAND; POLICY; SLOVAKIA; SOCIOECONOMICS; TIME; TREE; UKRAINE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHY; POLAND; PUBLIC POLICY; SLOVAKIA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREES; UKRAINE;

EID: 34848850865     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1661.1     Document Type: Article

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