Spatio-temporal analysis of agricultural land-use intensity across the Western Siberian grain belt

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 544, Issue , 2016, Pages 271-280

  Kühling, Insa ^a,b   Broll, Gabriele ^b   Trautz, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intensity index; Land use change; Post Soviet; Russia; Sustainable intensification; Sustainable land management

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; BELTS; ECONOMICS; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT);

INTENSITY INDEX; LAND-USE CHANGE; POST-SOVIET; RUSSIA; SUSTAINABLE INTENSIFICATION; SUSTAINABLE LAND MANAGEMENTS;

LAND USE;

ABANDONED LAND; AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; POST-COMMUNISM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRATEGIC APPROACH; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; CROPLAND; GRASSLAND; LAND USE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ALTAYSKIY; CHELYABINSK [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; KURGAN; NOVOSIBIRSK; OMSK; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SVERDLOVSK; TYUMEN;

EID: 84949256251     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.11.129     Document Type: Article

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