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| Author: | Teixido, A. L.(et al.) |
| Title: | Impacts of changes in land use and fragmentation patterns on Atlantic coastal forests in northern Spain |
| Journal: | Journal of Environmental Management
2010 : MAR-APR, VOL. 91:4, p. 879-886 |
| Index terms: | forest economics land use Atlantic ocean Spain models |
| Freeterms: | adjacency; eucalypt plantations; forest patches; land cover classes; riparian forests; transitions fragmentation patterns |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | It is argues the changes in forested landscapes may have important consequences for ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation. This article evaluated the dynamics of landscape and forest distribution patterns between 1957 and 2003 in Fragas do Eume Natural Park (northwestern Spain). It is used orthoimages and a set of standard landscape metrics to determine transitions between land cover classes and to examine forest distribution patterns. These results suggest an increase in forest fragmentation from 1957 to 2003, as well as a change in the nature of the habitat surrounding forest patches. The paper shows that land use changes, mostly from eucalypt plantation intensification, negatively affected forested habitats, although some regeneration was ongoing through ecological succession from land abandonment. |
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