Agricultural abandonment

Legacy effects of past land use on current biodiversity in a low-intensity farming landscape in Transylvania (Romania)
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Ecological impacts of past land use can persist for centuries. While present-day land use is relatively easy to quantify, …
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Mapping cropland-use intensity across Europe using MODIS NDVI time series
Global agricultural production will likely need to increase in the future due to population growth, changing diets, and the rising …
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Recultivation of abandoned agricultural lands in Ukraine: Patterns and drivers
The recent rise in agricultural commodity prices and the expectation that high price will persist have triggered a wave of farmland …
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Archetypical patterns and trajectories of land systems in Europe
Assessments of land-system change have dominantly focused on conversions among broad land-use categories, whereas intensity changes …
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Forest transitions in Eastern Europe and their effects on carbon budgets
Forests often rebound from deforestation following industrialization and urbanization, but for many regions our understanding of where …
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Harnessing the biodiversity value of Central and Eastern European farmland
A large proportion of European biodiversity today depends on habitat provided by low-intensity farming practices, yet this resource is …
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Long-term agricultural land-cover change and potential for cropland expansion in the former Virgin Lands area of Kazakhstan
During the Soviet Virgin Lands Campaign, approximately 23 million hectares (Mha) of Eurasian steppe grassland were converted into …
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Mapping farmland abandonment and recultivation across Europe using MODIS NDVI time series
Farmland abandonment is a widespread land-use change in temperate regions, due to increasing yields on productive lands, conservation …
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Post-Soviet land-use change effects on large mammals' habitat in European Russia
Land-use change can strongly affect wildlife populations, typically via habitat loss and degradation where land use expands, and also …
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Forest and agricultural land change in the Carpathian region—A meta-analysis of long-term patterns and drivers of change
Humans have altered land cover for centuries, and land-cover change is a main component of global change. Land use transition …
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