An integrative approach for analysing landscape dynamics in diverse cultivated and natural mountain areas

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 611-628

  Tasser, Erich ^a   Ruffini, Flavio V ^a   Tappeiner, Ulrike ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Habitat diversity; Land use changes; Landscape structuring; Mixed land use forms; Urban sprawl

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CENSUS; CULTIVATION; DATABASE; ECOREGION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MOUNTAIN; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; TYROL;

EID: 67349268746     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-009-9337-9     Document Type: Article

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