Recent Dynamics of the Mediterranean Vegetation and LandscapeStefano Mazzoleni, Gaetano di Pasquale, Mark Mulligan, Paolo di Martino, Francisco Castro Rego John Wiley & Sons, 22.10.2004 - 320 Seiten The Mediterranean region has been shaped by human activity and maintained by traditional practices of land use for centuries. This has affected the distribution of plants and the landscape, which can be considered as part of the European cultural landscape. This book details the rapid changes that have taken place in the vegetation of the Mediterranean in the last half-century, a period in which major socio-economic development greatly affected the cultural and physical landscape. |
Inhalt
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PART V NORTHERN LANDSCAPES CASE STUDIES | 143 |
PART VI EDGE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN AREA | 217 |
PART VII EPILOGUE | 257 |
References | 287 |
Index | 301 |
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Recent Dynamics of the Mediterranean Vegetation and Landscape Stefano Mazzoleni,Gaetano di Pasquale,Mark Mulligan,Paolo di Martino,Francisco Rego Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2004 |
Recent Dynamics of the Mediterranean Vegetation and Landscape Stefano Mazzoleni,Gaetano di Pasquale,Mark Mulligan,Paolo di Martino,Francisco Rego Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2004 |
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Seite 202 - It is hard to imagine why at the end of the eighteenth century, and at the beginning of the nineteenth...
Seite 201 - The latter part of the sixteenth century and the first part of the seventeenth century...
Seite 122 - We suspect it is due mainly to a change in the character of universities that has been going on for the last 30 or 40 years, and that was probably accelerated by the availability of Federal research funds.
Seite 41 - ... that starting with the EU membership of Greece, most of the mountainous ecosystems in Crete have been entering a phase of accelerated degradation triggered by intensified grazing. Of course, herding has been encouraged by European Community subsidies and, although the official figures seem somewhat inflated, the number of browsing animals has certainly increased (eg Rackham and Moody, 1996). However, based on sufficiently long time series of Earth Observation Satellite imagery, it could...
Seite 213 - The dominance index measures the extent to which one or a few land uses dominate the landscape...
Seite 35 - Spectral Mixture Analysis" (SMA) described eg by Adams et al. (1989). SMA is based on the assumption that most of the spectral variation in multi-spectral images is caused by mixtures of a limited number of surface materials and that the radiative transfer processes are additive. It attempts then to model the multispectral reflectance r as a mixture of representative 'prototype...
Seite 41 - Crete highlands remain largely unaffected. This appears to be in good agreement with the fact that most of the increasing grazing activities are, and have been, relying on the use of access roads for transporting animals and additional food supplies. It is thus not surprising that we find the most...
Seite 35 - Here, the soil surface itself should be as much an object of attention as is the vegetation (Graetz, 1990), and the key issue is, therefore, to provide accurate estimates of green vegetation abundance, which are not biased by the spectral contribution of background components (ie the soil and rock outcrops).
Seite 139 - Consequently, the technical, social and economic differences between the inhabitants were relatively small. The socio-economic system had been functioning for a long time; people knew the area intimately, and their way of dealing with the environment was therefore closely matched with local circumstance - a long-term sustainable strategy had evolved. The introduction of metalled roads just after the war triggered increasing contact between many of the isolated villages.
Seite 38 - Official statistics indicate that the number of sheep and goats in the townships of the Psiloriti region has grown by more than 150% since 1980 (Zioganas et al., 1998; Dubost, 1998), resulting in "a significant decrease of woody cover, and consequently the area is prone to desertification