During the past century, the western hemisphere has seen a general trend of agricultural
expansion on the behalf of semi-natural habitat types, such as heathlands and meadows …

Abstract Geografisk Tidsskrift—Danish Journal of Geography 109 (1): 47–67, 2009 The
intensification of agriculture was a key driver behind rural landscape changes in Europe …

The issue of monitoring landscape changes at the national scale has recently been
investigated by a number of authors. However, there is a lack of any comparative analyses …

The increase in the speed of land-cover change experienced worldwide is becoming a
growing concern. Major socio-economic transitions, such as the breakdown of socialism in …

The long history of human land use have had a strong influence on ecosystems and
landscapes in the boreal forest region of Northern Europe and created semi-natural habitats …

As in most industrialized countries, agricultural landscapes in Norway have undergone large-
scale changes during the past 50 years. In general, the trend has been intensification of …

A major obstacle to the conservation and management of semi-natural grassland (SNG) is
the general lack of consistent and precise maps showing the extent and quality of this …

The drastic loss of seminatural grasslands and the decrease in species diversity in Europe
during the 20th century are closely linked to social-economic factors. Development in …

Many of the semi-natural landscape elements found in rural areas, such as woodlots,
hedgerows and grasslands, were originally maintained as part of the agricultural system …

Grasslands are one of the most widespread terrestrial biomes. In Europe, the majority of
grasslands depends on human management, and as a result, grassland areas are facing …