Carpathians

European Bison habitat in the Carpathian Mountains
European Bison (Bison bonasus) barely escaped extinction in the early 20th century and now only occur in small isolated herds scattered …
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Forest cover change and illegal logging in the Ukrainian Carpathians in the transition period from 1988 to 2007
Illegal logging is a major environmental and economic problem, and exceeds in some countries the amounts of legally harvested timber. …
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Global Change Research in the Carpathian Mountain Region
The Carpathian Mountains in Europe are a biodiversity hot spot; harbor many relatively undisturbed ecosystems; and are still rich in …
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Land cover mapping of large areas using chain classification of neighboring Landsat satellite images
Satellite imagery is the major data source for regional to global land cover maps. However, land cover mapping of large areas with …
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Cross-border Comparison of Post-socialist Farmland Abandonment in the Carpathians
Agricultural areas are declining in many areas of the world, often because socio-economic and political changes make agriculture less …
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Post-socialist land use change in the Carpathians
Broad-scale political and socio-economic conditions are powerful determinants of land use change. Yet, their relative importance is …
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Post-socialist forest disturbance in the Carpathian border region of Poland, Slovakia, and Ukraine
Forests provide important ecosystem services, and protected areas around the world are intended to reduce human disturbance on forests. …
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Cross-border comparison of land cover and landscape pattern in Eastern Europe using a hybrid classification technique
Eastern Europe has experienced drastic changes in political and economic conditions following the breakdown of the Soviet Union. …
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Effectiveness of protected areas in the Carpathians differs among countries in post-socialist times
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