Grassland loss in the vicinity of a highly prospering metropolitan area from 1867/68 to 2000-The example of the Taunus (Hesse, Germany) and its Vorland

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 175-180

  Wittig, Rüdiger ^a   Becker, Ute ^b   Nawrath, Stefan ^c  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^c Arbeitsgruppe Biodiversität und Landschaftsökologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Grassland conversion; Historical maps; Land use change; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

LAND USE; MAPS; REFORESTATION;

BUILT-UP AREAS; DOMINATING FACTORS; FIELD SURVEYS; HISTORICAL MAPS; LAND-USE CHANGE; METROPOLITAN AREA; TOPOGRAPHIC MAP; URBANIZATION;

SURVEYS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; GRASSLAND; LAND USE CHANGE; METROPOLITAN AREA; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; URBANIZATION;

GERMANY; HESSE; TAUNUS;

EID: 77950019960     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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