Land abandonment, landscape, and biodiversity: questioning the restorative character of the forest transition in the Mediterranean

The effects of land abandonment on biodiversity have received considerable attention by scholars, but results are far from conclusive. Different cultural traditions of scientists seem to underlie the contrasting ways in which land abandonment is understood. Although the forest transition (FT) framew...

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Main Authors: Iago Otero, Joan Marull, Enric Tello, Giovanna L. Diana, Manel Pons, Francesc Coll, Martí Boada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2015-06-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol20/iss2/art7/