Forest disturbance

Forest disturbances, forest recovery, and changes in forest types across the Carpathian ecoregion from 1985 to 2010 based on Landsat image composites
Detailed knowledge of forest cover dynamics is crucial for many applications from resource management to ecosystem service assessments. …
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Continued loss of temperate old-growth forests in the Romanian Carpathians despite an increasing protected area network
Old-growth forests around the world are vanishing rapidly and have been lost almost completely from the European temperate forest …
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Forest restitution and protected area effectiveness in post-socialist Romania
The effectiveness of protected areas can diminish during times of pronounced socio-economic and institutional change. Our goals were to …
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Using annual time-series of Landsat images to assess the effects of forest restitution in post-socialist Romania
The increasing availability of the Landsat image archive and the development of approaches to make full use of these data provide novel …
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Using Landsat imagery to map forest change in southwest China in response to the national logging ban and ecotourism development
Forest cover change is one of the most important land cover change processes globally, and old-growth forests continue to disappear …
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Using the Landsat record to detect forest-cover changes during and after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the temperate zone of European Russia
The political breakdown of the Soviet Union in 1991 provides a rare case of drastic changes in social and economic conditions, and as …
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Carbon implications of forest restitution in post-socialist Romania
The collapse of socialism in 1989 triggered a phase of institutional restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe. Several countries …
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Post-Soviet farmland abandonment, forest recovery, and carbon sequestration in western Ukraine
Land use is a critical factor in the global carbon cycle, but land-use effects on carbon fluxes are poorly understood in many regions. …
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Differences in forest disturbance among land ownership types in Poland during and after socialism
Forest use can increase substantially during periods of societal change, but it is unclear how harvesting rates differ among different …
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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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