Human activities and natural processes over millennia have shaped the forest landscapes of
European mountain ranges. In the Apennines, the second largest range in Italy, the post …

Context Land use legacies of human activities and recent post-abandonment forest
expansion have extensively modified numerous forest landscapes throughout the European …

Reforestation after land abandonment across Mediterranean mountains, together with the
related landscape pattern dynamics and its possible impacts on the natural flora and fauna …

Land use science usually adopts a case study approach to investigate landscape change
processes, so we considered a meta-analysis an appropriate tool for summarizing general …

The analysis of land use and land cover change has long been a key topic in landscape
ecology. In particular, forest fragmentation is known to affect plant species composition and …

A key topic in landscape ecology and vegetation science is the quantitative analysis of
changes in forest cover over time, through the use of geomatics monitoring tools. Ecologists …

The analysis of land-use and land-cover change has long been a key topic in Landscape
Ecology. In particular, forest fragmentation is known to affect species composition and …

The present study focuses on the transformations of a typical Mediterranean agroforestry
landscape of southern Italy (high Agri Valley–Basilicata region) that occurred over 24 years …

In the Mediterranean mountains and hills spontaneous reforestation occurred in the last fifty
years at the expenses of open habitats. This process was triggered by depopulation and …

This paper presents the results of a forest cover analysis over a time span of 150 years in a
protected area of Eastern Trentino (Northern Italy), Paneveggio Pale di S. Martino Nature …