[HTML][HTML] Carpathian forests: past and recent developments

D Kholiavchuk, W Gurgiser, S Mayr - Forests, 2023 - mdpi.com
Forests of the Carpathians are of increasing research interest, as they cover a large area (>
9 Mha) within European forests and are influenced by diverse environmental conditions and …

Forest and agricultural land change in the Carpathian region—A meta-analysis of long-term patterns and drivers of change

C Munteanu, T Kuemmerle, M Boltiziar, V Butsic… - Land use policy, 2014 - Elsevier
Humans have altered land cover for centuries, and land-cover change is a main component
of global change. Land use transition trajectories, such as the forest transition theory (ie …

Tree and timberline shifts in the northern Romanian Carpathians during the Holocene and the responses to environmental changes

A Feurdean, M Gałka, I Tanţău, A Geantă… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
High altitude environments are experiencing more rapid changes in temperature than the
global average with the risk of losing essential ecosystem services in mountain …

The effect of atmospheric and topographic correction methods on land cover classification accuracy

S Vanonckelen, S Lhermitte, A Van Rompaey - International Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Mapping of vegetation in mountain areas based on remote sensing is obstructed by
atmospheric and topographic distortions. A variety of atmospheric and topographic …

Land use change in Southern Romania after the collapse of socialism

T Kuemmerle, D Müller, P Griffiths, M Rusu - Regional Environmental …, 2009 - Springer
The drastic socio-economic and political changes that occurred after the breakdown of
socialism in Eastern Europe triggered widespread land use change, including cropland …

Using annual time-series of Landsat images to assess the effects of forest restitution in post-socialist Romania

P Griffiths, T Kuemmerle, RE Kennedy… - Remote Sensing of …, 2012 - Elsevier
The increasing availability of the Landsat image archive and the development of
approaches to make full use of these data provide novel insights into the drivers and …

Continued loss of temperate old-growth forests in the Romanian Carpathians despite an increasing protected area network

JAN Knorn, T Kuemmerle, VC Radeloff… - Environmental …, 2013 - cambridge.org
Old-growth forests around the world are vanishing rapidly and have been lost almost
completely from the European temperate forest region. Poor management practices, often …

Climate variability in the Carpathian Mountains Region over 1961–2010

S Cheval, MV Birsan, A Dumitrescu - Global and Planetary Change, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Carpathian Mountains Region (CMR) lies over parts of the territories of seven
Central and Southeastern European countries, and the mountain chain induces major …

Is land abandonment affecting forest dynamics at high elevation in Mediterranean mountains more than climate change?

C Palombo, G Chirici, M Marchetti… - Plant Biosystems-An …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Global change is leaving a fingerprint on the appearance, structure and productivity of the
treeline ecotone, modifying patterns of mountain ecosystems. In order to implement correct …

The importance of pine species in the ethnomedicine of Transylvania (Romania)

N Papp, D Purger, S Czigle, D Czégényi… - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
The geographical and ecological features of Transylvania enable the wide ethnobotanical
use of pine species. The aim of this study was to survey the current ethnomedicinal and …