Natural forest regrowth as a proxy variable for agricultural land abandonment in the Swiss mountains: A spatial statistical model based on geophysical and socio-economic variables

Environmental Modeling and Assessment

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 269-278

  Gellrich, Mario ^a   Baur, Priska ^a   Zimmermann, Niklaus E ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Land use change; Logistic regression; Reforestation; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AGRICULTURE; COMMERCE; DECISION MAKING; EMPLOYMENT; LAND USE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; REFORESTATION; TEMPERATURE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; LAND ABANDONMENTS; LAND-USE CHANGE; LOW TEMPERATURES; MOUNTAIN REGIONS; POPULATION CHANGE; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS; STATISTICAL MODELING;

LANDFORMS;

ABANDONED LAND; AGRICULTURAL LAND; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST EDGE; GEOPHYSICS; MOUNTAIN REGION; REGROWTH; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 35248837863     PISSN: 14202026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10666-006-9062-6     Document Type: Article

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