Assessing impact of forest Cover Change dynamics on High Nature Value farmland in Mediterranean mountain landscape

Annals of Silvicultural Research

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 29-37

  Cimini, Dora ^a   Tomao, Antonio ^a   Mattioli, Walter ^a   Barbati, Anna ^a   Corona, Piermaria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Forest dynamics; High nature value farmland; Land use and land cover changes; Spatial drivers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930005970     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2284354X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12899/ASR-771     Document Type: Article

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