Agricultural land change in the Carpathian ecoregion after the breakdown of socialism and expansion of the European Union

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Griffiths, Patrick ^a   Müller, Daniel ^a,b   Kuemmerle, Tobias ^a   Hostert, Patrick ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES IAMO   (Germany)

Author keywords

agricultural abandonment; Europe; fallow land; forest expansion; grassland conversion; image compositing; land use change; Landsat; recultivation; remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; DECISION TREES; REMOTE SENSING;

AGRICULTURAL ABANDONMENTS; EUROPE; FOREST EXPANSION; IMAGE COMPOSITING; LAND-USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; RECULTIVATION;

EXPANSION;

ABANDONED LAND; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ECOREGION; EUROPEAN UNION; FALLOW; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; RANGE EXPANSION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOCIALISM; TEMPORAL PERIOD;

CARPATHIANS;

EID: 84891944264     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/045024     Document Type: Article

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