Impacts of land-use history on the recovery of ecosystems after agricultural abandonment

Earth System Dynamics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 745-766

  Krause, Andreas ^a   Pugh, Thomas A M ^a,b   Bayer, Anita D ^a   Lindeskog, Mats ^c   Arneth, Almut ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; PRODUCTIVITY; RECOVERY; SOILS; TROPICS; VEGETATION;

AGRICULTURAL ABANDONMENTS; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DYNAMIC VEGETATION MODEL; LONG TERM MONITORING; TERRESTRIAL CARBON CYCLE; VEGETATION COMPOSITION;

LAND USE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; PASTURE; SOIL CARBON; VEGETATION;

AFRICA; EUROPE;

EID: 84987788997     PISSN: 21904979     EISSN: 21904987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/esd-7-745-2016     Document Type: Article

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