Rewilding abandoned landscapes in Europe

Rewilding European Landscapes

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 3-23

  Navarro, Laetitia M ^a,b,c   Pereira, Henrique M ^a,b,c  

^a GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Ecosystem services; Farmland abandonment; Land sharing; Land sparing; Land use change; Passive management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943615836     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-12039-3_1     Document Type: Chapter

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