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Title: | Assessing impact of forest cover change dynamics on high nature value farmland in Mediterranean mountain landscape | Authors: | Cimini, Dora Tomao, Antonio Mattioli, Walter Barbati, Anna Corona, Piermaria |
Keywords: | Forest dynamics;Land Use and Land Cover Changes;Spatial drivers;High Nature Value farmland | Issue Date: | 2013 | Publisher: | CRA Journals | Source: | Cimini, D. et al. 2013. Assessing impact of forest cover change dynamics on high nature value farmland in Mediterranean mountain landscape. "Annals of Silvicultural Research" 37 (1): 29-37 | Abstract: | A general trend of scrub encroachment and natural forest expansion (old-fi eld succession) has been occurring in the past fi fty years in Mediterranean mountain areas. While this phenomenon enhances a series of ecological processes and environmental services, it may represent a threat for biodiversity conservation when occurring on High Nature Value (HNV) extensive farmland. These open areas, created by traditional farming systems, have been recognized as a critically important European biodiversity resource. Understanding the drivers of Land Use and Land Cover Change (LUCC) and their implications on the dynamics of forest and HNV farmland habitats plays a crucial role in biodiversity conservation in protected areas. In this perspective, the case study here presented aims to model recent (1989-2008) LUCC in a National Park of the Central Apennines (Italy) and to produce a midterm forecast (2008-2020). In the past twenty years, 57% of the land uptake by shrubland and 46% by forest has been occurring on former HNV farmland. Mid-term projections (2008-2020) confi rm further HNV farmland decline. Localization of HNV farmland habitats vulnerable to change is a valuable decision-making tool to tradeoff in protected areas the conservation of traditional landscapes with the increase of forest and shrubland areas. In this perspective, concrete socio-economical and silvicultural measures are outlined to preserve these socially and economically-fragile open habitats. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2067/2593 | DOI: | dx.doi.org/10.12899/ASR-771 |
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