Socialist and postsocialist land-use legacies determine farm woodland composition and structure: Lessons from Eastern Germany

European Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 597-610

  Plieninger, Tobias ^a   Schaich, Harald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agricultural landscapes; Land use history; Nonnative species; Novel ecosystems; Postsocialist transition; Trees outside forests

Indexed keywords

AERIAL SURVEY; AGRICULTURAL LAND; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY POLICY; LAND USE CHANGE; POST-COMMUNISM; SOCIALISM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; WOODLAND;

GERMANY;

EID: 84904513719     PISSN: 16124669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10342-014-0788-4     Document Type: Article

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