This paper describes the agricultural landscapes in Sweden and their development in
historical and modern time. Most emphasis is placed on the spatial pattern and changes of …

This paper identifies a number of essential ecosystem services, and estimates their
generation by the Swedish agricultural landscape under different production intensities. This …

Vascular plants were recorded in a long-term (28-year) experiment on semi-natural
grassland vegetation comparing six treatments: continued grazing, mowing every year …

The objective of the paper is to demonstrate the value of the multivariate method, Principal
Components Analysis (PCA) on data relating to landscape elements, to determine the …

Many studies of land-cover and structural changes in cultural landscapes have used
historical maps as a source for information about past land-cover. All transformations of …

This paper presents a methodological synthesis of two congruent approaches into a
common landscape change trajectory analysis and the assessment of landscape dynamics …

Changes at the landscape level in a 100ha area of southern Finland, have led to
homogenization over the period 1954–1997, as measured by Shannon's diversity index …

Many attempts have been made to reduce the impact of modern conventional farming on the
environment and semi-natural ecosystems. One of them is organic farming, known primarily …

Severe competition for water and augmented agricultural and urban development in Israel
have modified and destroyed wetland habitats. Using historical maps, we mapped the past …

Landscape studies constitute a highly dynamic field which calls for a comprehensive review.
The perspective of this review is ecological–geographical from a mainly Swedish viewpoint …