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1 Author's personal copy ecological modelling 2 0 9 ( 2 0 0 7 ) 157168
 

Summary:  Accepted 19 June 2007 Published on line 8 August 2007 Keywords: Agricultural land-abandonment Gap dynamics... the last decades this trend has been reversed due to changing agricultural practices and land-abandonment... (Bockstael, 1996; Irwin and Geoghegan, 2001). However, a recent study of ...

  

Source: Zimmermann, Niklaus E. - Department of Landscape Dynamics and Management, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
2 Rural Abandonment and Sustainable Development1
 

Summary:  be expected to move where it is most productive. In contrast, agricultural land is abandoned when it fails... encouraged the intensification of agriculture and have aggravated the trend toward abandonment of remote... of abandonment and intensification processes. The ...

  

Source: Zaferatos, Nicholas C. - Department of Environmental Studies, Western Washington University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
3 Found in open landscapes, inhabiting grasslands, marshes, savannas, and agricultural lands. Hollow trees, cliff crevices, and burrows in river banks are typical nest sites. Man-made structures
 

Summary:  Barn Owl Found in open landscapes, inhabiting grasslands, marshes, savannas, and agricultural lands... are used, such as barns, church steeples, and abandoned houses and buildings. Grasslands required... for foraging, but associated with agriculture and man because of roosting and nesting on farmsteads. Roost

  

Source: South Dakota State University, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
4 Abandonment of agricultural land: an overview of drivers and consequences
 

Summary:  Review Abandonment of agricultural land: an overview of drivers and consequences Jose´ M. Rey... problems related to abandonment of agricultural land and quantified their relative importance. In order... . The abandonment of ...

  

Source: Rey Benayas, José María - Departamento de Ecología, Universidad de Alcala

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
5 Land policy for integrated development of mountainous areas in the sectors of agriculture, stockbreeding and forestry
 

Summary:  for the country, agricultural land is gradually abandoned and the average age of landholding leaders is much... Land policy for integrated development of mountainous areas in the sectors of agriculture... higher compared to the other areas of Greece. National land ...

  

Source: Papadopoulos, Evangelos - Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens

 

Collection: Engineering

 
6 Geomorphic and hydrological effects of traditional shifting agriculture in a Mediterranean mountain,
 

Summary:  landslides. Key words: shifting agriculture; sloping fields; runoff; soil erosion; land degradation; farmland... and of the dry-farming agricultural system, including the enlargement of the cultivated areas in marginal lands... , with few, if any, cultivated lands, who was forced to ...

  

Source: Portugués, Santiago Beguería - Faculty of Geosciences, Universiteit Utrecht

 

Collection: Geosciences

 
7 Natural forest regrowth as a proxy variable for agricultural land abandonment in the Swiss mountains: a spatial
 

Summary:  Natural forest regrowth as a proxy variable for agricultural land abandonment in the Swiss... European mountain regions, natural forest regrowth on abandoned agricultural land and the related... abandonment and forest regrowth when designing ...

  

Source: Zimmermann, Niklaus E. - Department of Landscape Dynamics and Management, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
8 Agricultural land abandonment and natural forest re-growth in the Swiss mountains: A spatially explicit economic analysis
 

Summary:  Agricultural land abandonment and natural forest re-growth in the Swiss mountains: A spatially... mountains where agricultural land has been abandoned and overgrown by trees and bushes. Therefore... to the natural forest re-growth on abandoned ...

  

Source: Zimmermann, Niklaus E. - Department of Landscape Dynamics and Management, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
9 Landscape and Urban Planning 79 (2007) 6576 Investigating the regional-scale pattern of agricultural land abandonment
 

Summary:  of agricultural land abandonment in the Swiss mountains: A spatial statistical modelling approach Mario Gellrich... , agricultural land abandonment and the related consequences for the environment are issues of increas- ing... regional-scale pattern of ...

  

Source: Zimmermann, Niklaus E. - Department of Landscape Dynamics and Management, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
10 Integrating Conservation and Agriculture
 

Summary:  demand in developing regions on the current agricultural land. "Wildlife-friendly" farming will reduce... yields and should be avoided. Systems affect much more water and land than production area. Agricultural... ;"Land Sparing" Agriculture · Increase yields on ...

  

Source: Gottgens, Hans - Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Toledo

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
11 Jaroslav Vojta: Imprints of history in post-agricultural forests Review of Ph.D. thesis
 

Summary:  of phosphorus appeared in samples of post- agricultural forests after 50 years of abandonment of villages... species (their proportion and which) were significantly influenced by previous land use in both abandoned... Jaroslav Vojta: Imprints of history in post-agricultural forests Review ...

  

Source: Vojta, Jaroslav - Department of Botany, Charles University in Prague

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
12 December 2010 Matthias Baumann
 

Summary:  ., Kuemmerle, T. (2011): Effect of massive socio- economic changes on land-use change: agricultural abandonment... : detecting agricultural land abandonment and understanding its drivers in post-soviet Eastern Europe. NASA... ): Patterns and drivers of post-socialist ...

  

Source: Turner, Monica G. - Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin at Madison

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
13 The Ecological Society of America wwwwww..ffrroonnttiieerrssiinneeccoollooggyy..oorrgg In the debate over how to balance conservation and
 

Summary:  restoration involves the colo- nization of abandoned agricultural land (ie old fields) by whatever plants... abandonment of arable land. (a) (b) CourtesyofMAMuñiz #12;Woodland islets in agricultural landscapes JM Rey... that some agricultural ...

  

Source: Rey Benayas, José María - Departamento de Ecología, Universidad de Alcala

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
14 THE INFLUENCE OF PAST AND PRESENT LAND USE ON NON-NATIVE PLANT INVASION IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS
 

Summary:  their roles in shaping the distributions of forest invaders. The influence of agricultural land-use history... of invasion, particular at local scales. Areas with agricultural land-use histories often had overstory... ABSTRACT THE INFLUENCE OF PAST AND PRESENT LAND USE ON NON-NATIVE PLANT ...

  

Source: Turner, Monica G. - Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin at Madison

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
15 INTERACTIONS BETWEEN COASTAL URBAN DYNAMICS AND AGRICULTURAL AREAS OF THE COTE D'AZUR
 

Summary:  " sometimes purchases agricultural areas which are abandoned because of land pressure or urbanisation threats... -29Aug2009 #12;Fig. 1. Land use of the Alpes-Maritimes coast in 2000 and evolution of agricultural areas... of the agricultural areas. We have prolonged the ...

  

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
16 Carbon sequestration and biodiversity of re-growing miombo woodlands in Mozambique
 

Summary:  Malawian miombo woodland. In the present study, abandoned agricultural land had a median C stock 23% lower... and biodiversity responded once agriculture was abandoned. We sampled twenty-eight 0.125 ha plots that had... and on abandoned farmland 20­30 years old. ...

  

Source: 

 

Collection: Geosciences

 
17 Sharpening the Focus of Yolo County Land Use Policy
 

Summary:  Agricultural Issues Center October 2009 #12;Sharpening the Focus of Yolo County Land Use Policy II University... of California Agricultural Issues Center #12;Sharpening the Focus of Yolo County Land Use Policy III Making... plans for urban expansion while maintaining land in ...

  

Source: Hammock, Bruce D. - Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis

 

Collection: Biotechnology

 
18 Soil Carbon Accumulation During Temperate Forest Succession
 

Summary:  of agricultural land have been abandoned in many regions including eastern North America, and parts of Europe... 1978; Parson 1999). Abandoned agricultural land may be a significant C sink and therefore could... - peans beginning in the late 1700s, followed by ...

  

Source: Grogan, Paul - Department of Biology, Queen's University (Kingston)

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
19 Agricultural land-use change in Brazilian Amazo^nia between 1980 and 1995: Evidence from integrated satellite and census data
 

Summary:  . On agricultural land that is later abandoned, regrowth rates on former croplands differ from rates on former... Agricultural land-use change in Brazilian Amazo^nia between 1980 and 1995: Evidence from integrated... and abundance of major agricultural ...

  

Source: Wisconsin at Madison, University of - Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE)

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
20 he floods of 24 May 2004 and the trag-ic loss of thousands of lives in south-
 

Summary:  to the abandonment of mar- ginal grazing and agricultural lands, particu- larly in the mountains. In other areas... . Regardless of the motive for migrating, the abandonment of agricultural and grazing lands will facilitate... regeneration in ...

  

Source: Aide, Mitchell - Department of Biology, Universidad de Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology


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21 Copyright 2008 by the author(s). Published here under license by the Resilience Alliance. Grau, H. R., and M. Aide. 2008. Globalization and land-use transitions in Latin America. Ecology and
 

Summary:  and the abandonment of marginal agricultural and grazing land, which can favor ecosystem recovery both as spontaneous... productive lands, and marginal agriculture is abandoned, favoring the recovery of forests and other natural... , or cannabis). Although marginal ...

  

Source: Aide, Mitchell - Department of Biology, Universidad de Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
22 in POST-AGRICULTURAL Jaroslav Vojta
 

Summary:  of the abandoned landscape. It was found that forest communities that originated on abandoned agricultural land... . Land use legacies in post-agricultural forests in the Doupovské Mountains, Czech Republic (Martin... of the previous research beyond the ...

  

Source: Vojta, Jaroslav - Department of Botany, Charles University in Prague

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
23 Forthcoming in Land Economics Property tax policy and land use change*
 

Summary:  of forestry and agricultural lands to developed use due to population growth and urban sprawl, conversion... of marginal agricultural lands to forestry use, and expansion of intensive agriculture on best quality lands... agricultural, ...

  

Source: Zhang, Daowei - School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
24 44 WEB ECOLOGY 9, 2009 Web Ecology 9: 4453.
 

Summary:  ­360. Rey Benayas, J. M. et al. 2007. Abandonment of agricultural land: an overview of drivers... . 2005, Matson and Vitousek 2006). Widespread deforestation to provide agricultural land has resulted... found detrimental effects of land abandon- ...

  

Source: Rey Benayas, José María - Departamento de Ecología, Universidad de Alcala

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
25 The clock is ticking for rural America1 Michael Duffy
 

Summary:  of urbanization on agriculture. Land abandonment is not a major problem in the United States. However... .S. agriculture? In terms of land abandonment, the answer is clearly no. There is very little, if any, farmland... and land by sales group, ...

  

Source: Duffy, Michael D. - Office of Biorenewables Programs & Department of Economics, Iowa State University

 

Collection: Renewable Energy

 
26 Imprints of history in post-agricultural forests
 

Summary:  II. Land use legacies in post-agricultural forests in the Doupovské Mountains, Czech Republic (Martin... Imprints of history in post-agricultural forests Jaroslav Vojta Charles University in Prague... influencing vegetation of secondary forests in abandoned villages (Jaroslav Vojta - Preslia 79: 223-244) ...

  

Source: Vojta, Jaroslav - Department of Botany, Charles University in Prague

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
27 REMIT T ANCESL ANDSCAPE 5 0 3 planting trees, and thus sealing mountain passes.Regrowth will play an
 

Summary:  , in particular through deforestation. See also: AgriculturalIntensification;Decision-Making;LandAbandonment;Land... to improve agricultural or land-usesystems. The way remittances are invested depends on the particular... ,education,etc.). Investment in land, livestock,agricultural ...

  

Source: Richner, Heinz - Zoologischen Institut, Universität Bern

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
28 W ater QualitW ater Qualit School of AgricultureSchool of AgricultureSchool of AgricultureSchool of AgricultureSchool of Agriculture
 

Summary:  Management Issues" WQ 18 "Agriculture's Impact on Environmental Quality: Land Application of Municipal... W ater QualitW ater Qualit WQ-21 School of AgricultureSchool of AgricultureSchool of Agriculture... School of AgricultureSchool of Agriculture ...

  

Source: Fernández-Juricic, Esteban - Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
29 Agriculture and Natural Resources Family and Consumer Sciences 4-H Youth Development Community and Economic Development COOPERATIVE EXTENSION SERVICE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, LEXINGTON, KY, 40546
 

Summary:  OF AGRICULTURE, LEXINGTON, KY, 40546 AEN-104 Abandoned wells are often the only struc- tures remaining after... an AbandonedWellSteve Higgins and Sarah Wightman, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Figure 3... . This abandoned well is located in an agricultural ...

  

Source: Consortium for Fossil Fuel Science, C1 Chemistry Program

 

Collection: Fossil Fuels

 
30 Environmental causes and consequences of forest clearance and agricultural
 

Summary:  . Forests on lands abandoned from agriculture 80­100 years before had slightly higher pH and nutrient... farmers less likely to clear or more likely to abandon lands less favourable for agriculture ­ lands... ; whether or not to ...

  

Source: Vellend, Mark - Departments of Botany & Zoology & Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
31 Paper presented at New Generation Resource Policy for a Region in Transition: Land Use, Agriculture, Environment, and Health in the Great Lakes Region, Oregon OH, May 12, 2004.
 

Summary:  agriculture to begin with. Abandonment of agriculture on marginal lands during the 1970s and 1980s, appears... , Agriculture, Environment, and Health in the Great Lakes Region, Oregon OH, May 12, 2004. Land-Use and Land... on ...

  

Source: Brown, Daniel G. - School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
32 Trends and scenarios of the carbon budget in postagricultural Puerto Rico (19362060)
 

Summary:  decreases with forest age and there is little agricultural land remaining to be abandoned. Due to high per... population migration from rural to urban areas and abandonment of agriculture lands (Cruz Baez & Boswell... as a consequence of ...

  

Source: Aide, Mitchell - Department of Biology, Universidad de Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
33 The profound impacts of human land use on biologi-cal diversity via habitat loss and fragmentation
 

Summary:  ceased, plant communities on abandoned agricultural lands remain impoverished in herbaceous species... of Europe, where agricultural use and abandonment may predate the oldest land-use maps, identifying primary... by altering biotic and abiotic environments. ...

  

Source: Vellend, Mark - Departments of Botany & Zoology & Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
34 Draft (8 April 2007) submitted for Copenhagen Consensus 2008. Comments welcome Land Degradation
 

Summary:  quarters of the world's agricultural lands has been fairly stable over the last fifty years... on about 16% of agricultural land in developing countries, especially crop land in Africa and Central... (Barbier 2005). In areas of low population density, land is ...

  

Source: Coxhead, Ian - Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin at Madison

 

Collection: Multidisciplinary Databases and Resources

 
35 Landscape Ecology 15: 271280, 2000. 2000 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands.
 

Summary:  , characterized by extensive agricultural land-uses and by the dual process of intensification/abandonment... of European agricultural land- scapes. Indicators of AEP effects on the environment thus seem opportune... grassland, (2) permanent grassland to abandoned ...

  

Source: Oñate, Juan J. - Departamento de Ecología, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
36 Chapter 1 The Changing Countryside Wendy Jepson and Andrew Millington
 

Summary:  -tropical agricultural regions has been largely ignored. Put succinctly, research projects within the IGBP Land Use Land... to agriculture or pasture at the expense of similarly detailed attention to dynamics of land change within... not the emitted spectrum, which have been ex- tensively ...

  

Source: 

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
37 December 2003 / Vol. 53 No. 12 BioScience 1159 Since the origin of agriculture, the human popula-
 

Summary:  activities. The fate of the abandoned agricultural lands depends on different factors (table 1). Forest... . As a consequence, forests and other natural areas have been transformed into agriculture,pastureland, and cities.Land... years. Despite the rapid structural recovery, the legacy of ...

  

Source: Aide, Mitchell - Department of Biology, Universidad de Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
38 Landscape Ecology vol. 1 no. 1 pp 29-36 (1987) SPB Academic Publishing, The Hague
 

Summary:  : urban, cropland, abandoned cropland, pasture, and forest. Land use data were obtained from historical... : (1) urban; (2) cropland; (3) abandoned cropland (transitional land); (4) pasture; and (5) forest... . For example, a patch- of abandoned land adjacent to an ...

  

Source: Turner, Monica G. - Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin at Madison

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
39 Land use change and soil nutrient transformations in the Los Haitises region of the Dominican Republic
 

Summary:  in the agricultural sites on gK1 SOM basis. These results suggest that land use is indirectly affecting microbial... that the abandonment of agriculture and the subsequent regeneration of forest may return C storage to pre-agricultural... important because a significant amount of forest ...

  

Source: Flecker, Alex - Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
40 Ecological Economics 37 (2001) 357369 SPECIAL SECTION
 

Summary:  48824, USA Abstract This paper presents a model treating agricultural and urban land uses simultaneously... of agricultural lands by linking two industries with two different forms of land use. The present formulation... considers both the encroachment of natural areas and the loss of ...

  

Source: Walker, Robert T. - Department of Geography, Michigan State University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology


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41 Agricultural intensification and changes in cultivated areas, 19702005
 

Summary:  the abandonment of erosion-prone agricultural lands (20), may also have induced de- clines in cultivated areas... the intensification of agriculture on some lands spare other lands from cultivation? The significance of the answer... to produce more on less ...

  

Source: Uriarte, Maria - Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
42 Farmers' attitudes and landscape change: evidence from the abandonment of terraced cultivations
 

Summary:  progressively abandoned in favor of the easy-to-cultivate lowlands (Grenon and Batisse 1989). Land use... , as terraces are not maintained due to the abandonment of older land uses in favor of housing and Mediterranean... . The most important agricultural land uses ...

  

Source: Petanidou, Theodora - Department of Geography, University of the Aegean

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
43 Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa (EMMENA), 2nd York, Macmillan Reference USA, 2004.
 

Summary:  country with significant unexploited or underexploited areas of land is Sudan. Such intensive agricultural... policies. #12;Agriculture--Vincent Battesti p. 4 Land Ownership The principal social constraints... to agricultural development have been unequal access to ...

  

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
44 Socioeconomic Dimensions of Changes in the Agricultural Landscape of the Mediterranean Basin: A Case Study of the
 

Summary:  emigration caused the abandonment of cultivated land and traditional management practices, dra- matically... and a living resource for sustainable management. Keywords Agricultural landscape Á Landscape elements Á Land... Landscape Common definitions for agricultural landscapes focus ...

  

Source: Petanidou, Theodora - Department of Geography, University of the Aegean

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
45 Landscape and Urban Planning 96 (2010) 214223 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
 

Summary:  in abandoned agricultural lands: perception and aesthetic assessment by locals and tourists. Landscape Urban... March 2010 Accepted 21 March 2010 Available online 6 May 2010 Keywords: Land abandonment Land cover... to the abandonment of 70% of ...

  

Source: Blatrix, Rumsais - Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
46 Food intake, body reserves and reproductive success of barnacle geese Branta leucopsis staging in different habitats
 

Summary:  the development of a sufficiently strong muscle system. Creating reserves on agricultural land to accommodate... , abandoned and agricultural habitat, respectively. The islands of Sandvaer and Laanan are within the tra... day geese were foraging: 990 min in managed, 1044 in abandoned and ...

  

Source: Groningen, Rijksuniversiteit - Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies, Department of Marine Benthic Ecology and Evolution,

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
47 Journal of Environmental Management (2000) 59, 247263 doi:10.1006/jema.2000.0369, available online at http://www.idealibrary.com on
 

Summary:  residential and recreational development and agricultural abandonment, land-use and land-cover change need... residential development, agricultural abandonment, and changes in forest cover on private lands in the Upper... ), and AGUNDV. Together, ...

  

Source: Brown, Daniel G. - School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
48 Author's personal copy ecological modelling 2 1 2 ( 2 0 0 8 ) 460471
 

Summary:  the abandonment of agricultural land and the subsequent regenera- tion of forest. Here, we employed two sequential... of forest on abandoned agricultural land commonly exhibits a pre- dictable sequence of vegetation change... for the act of land ...

  

Source: Zimmermann, Niklaus E. - Department of Landscape Dynamics and Management, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
49 Research article Land use and forest cover on private parcels in the Upper Midwest USA,
 

Summary:  6 May 2003 Key words: Agricultural abandonment, Forest regrowth, Land use, Recreational development... of land-use changes, especially abandon- ment of agriculture and dispersed development, on forest cover... the gains in tree cover due to ...

  

Source: Brown, Daniel G. - School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
50 RESEARCH ARTICLE Forest recovery in a tropical landscape: what is the relative
 

Summary:  , socioeconomic changes and abandonment of agricultural land and pastures have led to an increase in secondary... and Geist 2006). Urban development and forest recovery are both occurring in abandoned agricultural land... urbanization, abandonment ...

  

Source: Uriarte, Maria - Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
51 LAND RESOURCES AND HOUSEHOLD STRATEGIES IN A CHANGED SOCIO-ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT -SOKOLUK RIVER BASIN (TIEN
 

Summary:  in livestock, purchase of land and agricultural machinery. Furthermore they have the opportunity to cultivate... the intention and means to exploit them more intensively. The same tendency is true for agricultural land, where... LAND RESOURCES AND HOUSEHOLD STRATEGIES IN A CHANGED ...

  

Source: Richner, Heinz - Zoologischen Institut, Universität Bern

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
52 Land use change in a Mediterranean metropolitan region and its periphery: assessment of conservation policies through
 

Summary:  changes --urbanisation, agricultural intensification and land abandonment-- differed significantly... areas than in protected ones (Table 3). Land abandonment was achieved by transformations of agricultural... intensification processes and faster rates of ...

  

Source: Bravo de la Parra, Rafael - Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad de Alcala

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
53 Briefing Paper(11-01) February 2011
 

Summary:  of land to agriculture for forestry and energy development,activities on which it is difficult to achieve... numbers and land abandonment are to be halted,some element of headage payment would appear to be the most... for those engaged in land management and not just a by-product of ...

  

Source: Strathclyde, University of - Department Physics and Applied Physics, Biomolecular and Chemical Physics Group

 

Collection: Physics ; Materials Science

 
54 Dr. Olivier Honnay, Professor of Plant Conservation Biology TEL. +32-16-32.15.32 FAX +32-16-32.19.68
 

Summary:  succession towards forests occurred on the abandoned meadows, pastures and arable land. The current result... report on the PhD thesis of Jaroslav Vojta. "Imprints of History in Post-Agricultural Forests" I judge... - Imprints of history in post-agricultural forests The PhD thesis of Jaroslav Vojta focuses ...

  

Source: Vojta, Jaroslav - Department of Botany, Charles University in Prague

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
55 ECONOMICS OF AGRICULTURE AND WILDLIFE A Background Report on the
 

Summary:  and Parla), Alena Strak (Agricultural Land Commission), Brian Rogers (Delta FarmlandlWildlife Trust... (and other land use sectors) to improve wildlife habitat and, lessen the impact of agricultural... into the Serpentine-Nicomekl Floodplain. Agricultural land cannot ...

  

Source: 

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Multidisciplinary Databases and Resources

 
56 NETWORK OF EXCELLENCE The CAP & Bioenergy
 

Summary:  area of arable land, circa 15Mha · Land abandonment ­ the rapid changes that its agriculture... to them for their products - a transition · Non-food production on agricultural land is only a minor... producing energy crops on agricultural ...

  

Source: Louisiana Forest Products Development Center

 

Collection: Renewable Energy

 
57 Investing in Agriculture: Far-Reaching Challenge,
 

Summary:  alternative approaches to agricultural practices such as bio-organics, radical shifts in land use... -sustaining. Alternatively, a massive re-allocation of land-uses in order to produce agricultural goods from the most optimal... Production 32 6 Supply of Agricultural Production 36 7 ...

  

Source: Bent, Andrew F. - Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Wisconsin at Madison, University of - Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE)

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
58 Simplifying Ground Water Transfers in Integrated Management Plans
 

Summary:  Water & Agricultural Law Specialist 402-472-1848; daiken@unl.edu October 6, 2010 2 of 10 FA map 3 of 10... plant or else pipe water from existing from irrigation well to ethanol plant buying rights: cap/abandon... apparently some disagreement regarding how to value the land off of which the ground water has been leased

  

Source: Nebraska-Lincoln, University of - Sand Hills Biocomplexity Project

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
59 Biennial rotations: Why do Mafa farmers abandon such an efficient agricultural system?
 

Summary:  Biennial rotations: Why do Mafa farmers abandon such an efficient agricultural system? (Mandara... farmers developed sophisticated agricultural techniques implying sound knowledge about the ecology... is a cereal, the sorghum. The Mafa still practice an intensive agriculture in an inhospitable and mixed

  

Source: Caillon, Sophie.- Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
60 Proceedings of the 17th Central Hardwood Forest Conference GTR-NRS-P-78 (2011) 143 STATUS AND POTENTIAL OF TERRESTRIAL
 

Summary:  stock and C sequestration in forest and agricultural lands, abandoned mine lands, and harvested wood... .14 Harvested wood products 1.25 1.55 Abandoned mine land afforestation - 0.11 Marginal agricultural land... by changing ...

  

Source: USDA, Forestry Service, Northern Research Station

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology


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61 Using historical General Land Office survey notes to quantify the effects of irrigated agriculture on land cover change in an arid lands watershed
 

Summary:  Agricultural expansion has been far more frequent than agricultural abandonment. Most240 agricultural lands... agriculture on land cover change in an arid lands watershed Thomas Dilts1 , Peter Weisberg1 , Jian Yang1... of ...

  

Source: Weisberg, Peter J. - Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, University of Nevada, Reno

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
62 The underpinnings of land-use history: three centuries of global gridded land-use transitions, wood-harvest
 

Summary:  , agricultural land was assumed to be abandoned and replaced globally at the same rate as in the tropics... increased by the abandonment rate of agricultural land. Transi- tions from other were then partitioned... using neither HYDE nor SAGE/HYDE had no ...

  

Source: New Hampshire, University of - Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, NASA Interdisciplinary Science Project

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Geosciences

 
63 2, 485518, 2006 Agricultural
 

Summary:  the agricultural potential of the land. Growing populations and more intensive land use, both for agriculture... impacted sustainability of agriculture and the ability of the land to support its popula- tions. In much... of the region today, ...

  

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
64 Characterizing patterns of agricultural land use in Amazonia by merging satellite classifications and census data
 

Summary:  Characterizing patterns of agricultural land use in Amazonia by merging satellite classifications... explicit map of agricultural land use activity. [6] Human land use can also affect adjacent land that has... and Chen, 2000; Wood and Skole, 1998], there is no ...

  

Source: Wisconsin at Madison, University of - Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE)

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
65 Copyright 2008 by the author(s). Published here under license by the Resilience Alliance. Pars-Ramos, I. K., W. A. Gould, and T. Mitchell Aide. 2008. Agricultural abandonment, suburban growth,
 

Summary:  ). Forest recovery in Puerto Rico has occurred mainly on abandoned pastures and agricultural lands... -Ramos, I. K., W. A. Gould, and T. Mitchell Aide. 2008. Agricultural abandonment, suburban growth... and agriculture on natural systems in the Neotropics ...

  

Source: Aide, Mitchell - Department of Biology, Universidad de Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
66 Jana E. Compton Richard D. Boone Glenn Motzkin David R. Foster
 

Summary:  of land-use history, time since agricultural abandonment and present vegetation were examined to determine... America has been transformed from predominantly agricultural lands to forest. Although cultivation... and early 20th centuries led to extensive natural reforestation of former ...

  

Source: Harvard University, Harvard Forest

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
67 We've all seen them, aban-doned and derelict vessels.
 

Summary:  on the bottom, or in the mangroves. On land, they're common sightings on vacant lots, in the woods or along de... vessels can jeopardize human safety, cause navigational haz- ards and impact aquatic habi- tats. Abandoned... . If a collision occurs, serious injury is possi- ble. Abandoned and derelict ves- sels may contain oil, ...

  

Source: Jawitz, James W. - Soil and Water Science Department, University of Florida

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
68 Agri-Environmental Programs United States and European Union
 

Summary:  argue that the EU is more concerned with pollution associated with intensive agriculture because land... -environmental policy orientation, we would expect EU member states with the least land (and most intensive agricultural... farming methods and restore pasture on lands that would ...

  

Source: Sadoulet, Elisabeth - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
69 Physiographical and historical effects on forest vegetation in central New England, USA
 

Summary:  ­100 years after agricultural abandonment. However, these studies examined the effects of land-use history... with 1938 hurricane damage: damage was greater on agricultural lands abandoned prior to 1870 than those... of agricultural ...

  

Source: Harvard University, Harvard Forest

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
70 Environ Ecol Stat (2007) 14:161179 DOI 10.1007/s10651-007-0012-5
 

Summary:  . An earlier paper developed new snapshots of agricultural land use in this region using a statistical fusion... but of different origins. Keywords Polygon · Raster · Amazon · Land use · Land cover · Agriculture · Census... of land use were developed from a ...

  

Source: Wisconsin at Madison, University of - Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE)

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
71 Biomass energy: the scale of the potential resource
 

Summary:  that much of the abandoned agricultural area is currently in urban areas (3%) or that lands abandoned from... available as agricultural land is abandoned in response to surplus food supplies [41,42,47]. The estimated... for ...

  

Source: Louisiana Forest Products Development Center

 

Collection: Renewable Energy

 
72 In country farms, as in people, a plain exterior can reveal hidden riches.
 

Summary:  agricultural policy to encourage more sustainable and nutritious food production by abandoning our out... River Wildlife and Agricultural Ecosystems The changing agricultural landscape · "Green Revolution... " resulted in substantial changes in agriculture · Yields have increased 2% per ...

  

Source: Johnson, Matthew - Department of Wildlife, Humboldt State University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
73 Balancing food production and nature conservation in the Neotropical dry forests of northern Argentina
 

Summary:  . To balance increasing agriculture production and nature conservation, we must assess the efficiency of land... forests have experienced the greatest level of habitat conversion to agriculture lands (Hoek- stra et al... migration, is the abandonment of marginal agri- cultural ...

  

Source: Aide, Mitchell - Department of Biology, Universidad de Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
74 A Spatial Simulation Model of Land Use Changes in a Piedmont County in Georgia
 

Summary:  were included: urban, crop, abandoned cropland, pasture, and forest. Land use data were obtained from... of abandoned land adjacent to an urban area is more likely to become urban than a similar patch which... other was zero), all gains to urban and forest land came from ...

  

Source: Turner, Monica G. - Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin at Madison

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
75 Ecology, 88(12), 2007, pp. 31153125 2007 by the Ecological Society of America
 

Summary:  and historical agriculture suggests that B. thunbergii colonized recently abandoned agricultural lands... , with 60­85% of the land cleared for agriculture by the mid-19th century. Subsequent abandonment of agricul... of much of the northeastern ...

  

Source: Harvard University, Harvard Forest

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
76 Modelling Land Use and Land Cover Change in the Strzelecki Ranges
 

Summary:  agricultural abandonment and fires have all resulted in severe landscape disturbance in the Ranges. Land use... , subsequent abandonment of agricultural areas and several bush fires, resulting in severe landscape... to the landscape in the Strzelecki Ranges, leaving much of the area as ...

  

Source: Monash University, School of Geography and Environmental Science, Centre for Geographical Information Systems

 

Collection: Geosciences

 
77 Biogeochemistry and vegetation in a cranberry bog chronosequence Genevieve Noyce
 

Summary:  in these abandoned agricultural systems and the biogeochemical controls on these trends. I looked at fourteen... , there are bogs that were abandoned upwards of 70 years ago. As is to be expected, when agricultural bogs... as agricultural cranberry bogs for at least several years. The ...

  

Source: Vallino, Joseph J. - Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
78 Spring 1986 Research Could Help Revegetate Sand Hills
 

Summary:  tilled land is no longer cropped and severe erosion occurs , as in the 254 abandoned center-pivot sites... it. " The 254 abandoned pivot sites were on 32,807 acres of land. During 1985 about 20 percent... , this research would aid owners of abandoned marginal land if ...

  

Source: Nebraska-Lincoln, University of - Sand Hills Biocomplexity Project

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
79 Biodiversity and Conservation 10: 711723, 2001. 2001 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands.
 

Summary:  a history of extensive agricultural disturbance followed by abrupt abandonment. Abundance and diversity were... in their ability to support a diverse lizard assemblage. Abandoned agricultural habitats had slightly higher... abandonment. #12;713 The present study was initiated 4 years ...

  

Source: Glor, Rich - Department of Biology, University of Rochester

 

Collection: Biology and Medicine

 
80 Population, agricultural land use and the environment in Latin America at the dawn of the 20th
 

Summary:  1 Population, agricultural land use and the environment in Latin America at the dawn of the 20th... in forest cover, agricultural land area, and agricultural technology are examined for the major Latin... of theoretical aspects of the relationships between trends in population, ...

  

Source: Lopez-Carr, David - Department of Geography, University of California at Santa Barbara

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology


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81 ASSESSING EFFECTS OF GLOBAL CHANGE MITIGATION STRATEGIES WITH AN INTERTEMPORAL MODEL OF THE U.S. FOREST AND AGRICULTURE SECTORS
 

Summary:  ) agricultural prices in eleven regions for 36 primary and 39 secondary commodities, and (iv) the amounts of land... .S. forest and agriculture sectors in which both land use and forest management investment decisions... . Although the agriculture side has a longer history of ...

  

Source: McCarl, Bruce A. - Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
82 Change detection with heterogeneous data using ecoregional stratification, statistical summaries and a land allocation algorithm
 

Summary:  cover and land-cover change information for forest, urban, and agriculture categories over a seven... ;resolution and to map hotspots of land-cover change between agriculture, forest, and urban cover. This posed... ; and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources ...

  

Source: Brown, Daniel G. - School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
83 Farm Households and Land Use in a Core Conservation Zone of the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala
 

Summary:  -economic, socioeconomic, and ecological patterns of farm households and land use outcomes in an emergent agricultural... agricultural frontiers in general. Keywords Maya Biosphere Reserve . Guatemala . Land use . Deforestation... region (FAO 2001). While most of the net forest cleared in Latin America opened ...

  

Source: Lopez-Carr, David - Department of Geography, University of California at Santa Barbara

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
84 Upland land-use and the effects on upper trophic level dynamics and
 

Summary:  ). This negative affect of anthropogenic influence is most clearly seen on agriculture lands. The reconditioning... 4 6 8 10 12 14 Forested River Restored Bog Active Bog Abandoned Bog Land-Use Adjacent to River... Restored Bog Active Bog Abandoned Bog Land-use ...

  

Source: Vallino, Joseph J. - Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
85 THE LOCALIZATION OF FARM POLICY: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON THE RELATIONS BETWEEN AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT IN
 

Summary:  and the impoverishment of the landscape in some regions and to land abandonment, soil erosion and inappropriate... agriculture as primarily a land management activity that provides (and supports) rural livelihoods... a decline or abandonment in agricultural uses. ...

  

Source: Kurtz, Stefan - Center for Bioinformatics, Universität Hamburg

 

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

 
86 Report to the Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission
 

Summary:  Part V - Agricultural Land Loss in the West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 What... Kind of a Problem is Agricultural Land Loss? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 The Agricultural Land... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

  

Source: Selker, John - Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering, Oregon State University

 

Collection: Environmental Management and Restoration Technologies ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
87 Land use change and soil carbon--1 TR O P I C A L LA N D US E CH A N G E A N D SO I L CA R B O N
 

Summary:  on forest land. An example is forest regrowth on abandoned agricultural fields. Secondary forests do... after Agricultural Abandonment in the Neotropics." In Post-agricultural Succession in the Neotropics... . McGilvray. 2002. "Does Conversion of Forest to ...

  

Source: Marín-Spiotta, Erika - Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin at Madison

 

Collection: Geosciences ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
88 Economic Impacts of Residential Property Abandonment
 

Summary:  Economic Impacts of Residential Property Abandonment and the Genesee County Land Bank in Flint... intentionally. #12;Economic Impacts of Residential Property Abandonment and the Genesee County Land Bank... of Residential Property Abandonment and the Genesee County ...

  

Source: Anisimov, Mikhail - Institute for Physical Science and Technology & Department of Chemical Engineering and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park

 

Collection: Physics ; Materials Science

 
89 The response of understory herbaceous plants to nitrogen fertilization in forests of different land-use history
 

Summary:  that have regrown following agricultural abandonment tend to have fewer forest-adapted plant species... Appalachians A B S T R A C T Forests growing on former agricultural land often have reduced frequencies of many... regardless of land-use history, but tulip tree is more abundant in ...

  

Source: Fraterrigo, Jennifer - Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
90 262 Int. J. Agricultural Resources Governance and Ecology, Vol. 4, Nos. 3/4, 2005 Including non-trade concerns: the environment in
 

Summary:  abandonment. Linked is the idea that farmers are stewards of the land, and that simply removing land from... to limit land abandonment, farmers in the USA are often specifically paid to abandon farmland, for example... both traditional extensive farming practices and ...

  

Source: Sadoulet, Elisabeth - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
91 Colonization, clear-cutting, and cornfields: Rural migration and deforestation in The Sierra de Lacandn National Park, Petn, Guatemala
 

Summary:  to approximately 25% of the globe's land surface (FAO, 1995). Until the completion of the westward agricultural... -dwindling, increasingly barren plots of land throughout rural Guatemala. According to the last agricultural survey (1979... % of the land (World Bank, 1995). Most fertile ...

  

Source: Lopez-Carr, David - Department of Geography, University of California at Santa Barbara

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
92 Human activities can create changes to landscapes that are perpetuated through time as ecological legacies thereby creating a palimpsest effect in modern plant communities and soils. In the course of the
 

Summary:  appears to be the relocation of stones within the landscape for building, land clearing and agricultural... patches on small scale agricultural terraces (~1-50m) and larger scale areas surrounding pueblo sites... activities. We show that anthropogenic legacies differ between types and intensities of prehistoric ...

  

Source: Hall, Sharon J. - School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
93 XXIII ESRS Congress, Vaasa 2009 1 Working Group 2.5: Governing the Local? Rural Power, Rural Needs and Rural Policy
 

Summary:  between the planners-advisors upstream and the processors-distributors downstream. Agricultural land... local social cohesion. Territories also use agricultural actions to resolve problems of land use... of continuing agricultural decline by playing the "taste of the ...

  

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
94 Global Change and Water Resources in the Mediterranean Mountains: Threats and
 

Summary:  ), along with a clear trend towards extensification and land abandonment (Rounsevell et al, 2005). Large... and modern land use practices and different states of land abandonment. Traditional rotating cereal crops... %), followed by the cereal crops (11%). The runoff coefficient diminished ...

  

Source: Portugués, Santiago Beguería - Faculty of Geosciences, Universiteit Utrecht

 

Collection: Geosciences

 
95 Greenhouse gas mitigation by agricultural intensification
 

Summary:  be prominent among efforts to reduce future GHG emissions. agriculture | greenhouse gas emissions | land use... , Upper Right) (1). Although agricultural production has increased both by expanding the land area... for expanded nonagricultural land use (5). It remains a question whether ...

  

Source: Kaye, Jason P. - Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Pennsylvania State University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
96 ELSEVIER EcologicalEconomics18(1996)3-13 Upland agricultural and forestry development in the Amazon
 

Summary:  of the extensive margin of market agriculture into forestry land use and long-fallow fanning. These intrusions have... of degraded land have been abandoned in the wake of ranching operations, con- sidered by many... of many eco- nomic agents. Agricultural use of land ...

  

Source: Walker, Robert T. - Department of Geography, Michigan State University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
97 Effect of Land-Cover Change on Terrestrial Carbon Dynamics in the Southern United States
 

Summary:  approximately 24% of the land area, 60% of the forest land, and 25% of the agricultural land for the entire... United States. This region has undergone a long-term transition from agricultural land use to secondary... and timbering had seriously degraded the ...

  

Source: 

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
98 Population growth, distribution, and size in Latin America
 

Summary:  · urbanization #12;Amazonian deforestation · Wider consequences in Brazil speculation and abandoned lands... with urban growth continued · The urban economy · Migration #12;TODAY · Agricultural and Rural Development... · Tropical Deforestation #12;Agricultural and Rural Development: Internal ...

  

Source: Lopez-Carr, David - Department of Geography, University of California at Santa Barbara

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
99 Population growth, distribution, and size in Latin America
 

Summary:  · urbanization #12;Amazonian deforestation · Wider consequences in Brazil speculation and abandoned lands... with urban growth continued · The urban economy · Migration #12;TODAY · Agricultural and Rural Development... · Tropical Deforestation #12;Agricultural and Rural Development: Internal ...

  

Source: Lopez-Carr, David - Department of Geography, University of California at Santa Barbara

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
100 Agricultural Legacies in the Great Basin Alter Vegetation Cover,
 

Summary:  ). In areas where cultivated agriculture is abandoned, lack of further land development may lead... as examples of abandoned agricultural land, we suggested that an amplified vegetation response... in some stage of succession following ...

  

Source: Elmore, Andrew J. - Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution of Washington

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology


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