Modelling the rate of secondary succession after farmland abandonment in a Mediterranean mountain area

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 245-254

  Pueyo, Yolanda ^a   Beguería, Santiago ^b  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b Faculty of Geosciences   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Environmental constraints; Logistic regression; Markov chains; Pinus sylvestris; Pyrenees; Succession rate

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MARKOV PROCESSES; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINTS; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; PYRENEES; SUCCESSION RATE;

LAND USE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CONIFEROUS TREE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LAND USE; LOGISTICS; MARKOV CHAIN; MOUNTAIN REGION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ARAGON; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUESCA [ARAGON]; IJUEZ VALLEY; PYRENEES; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 36048996255     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2007.04.008     Document Type: Article

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