Recent insular mediterranean landscape evolution: A case study on Syros, Greece

Landscape Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 361-381

  Detsis, Vassilis ^a   Ntasiopoulou, Glykeria ^a   Chalkias, Christos ^a   Efthimiou, Georgios ^b  

^a HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LARISSA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Environmental factors; Insular landscape; Land cover change; Landscape metrics; Socio economic driving forces

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS;

CYCLADAS; GREECE; SOUTHERN AEGEAN; SYROS;

EID: 77953086285     PISSN: 01426397     EISSN: 14699710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01426391003746549     Document Type: Article

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