In the context of climate change, the decline in biodiversity and current socio-economic
trends, which support the processes of industrialization or abandonment of agricultural land …

We are living in a time of rapid environmental changes caused by anthropogenic pressures.
Besides direct human exploitation of plant and animal populations and habitat …

Traditional villages serve not only as a habitat for inhabitants to grow and dwell but also as a
significant domain for the preservation of historical and cultural legacy, bearing the fond …

Traditional villages are the spatial carriers of the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese
nation, the concentrated expression of thousands of years of farming civilization, and a …

In recent traditional village studies, spatial distribution characteristics have gained
importance as a basis for rural revitalization and holistic protection; however, the total …

Central and Eastern Europe has experienced fundamental land use changes since the
collapse of socialism around 1990. We analyzed the patterns and determinants of …

Context Maintaining functional green infrastructures (GIs) require evidence-based
knowledge about historic and current states and trends of representative land cover types …

Livestock has been a backbone of people's livelihood as long as agriculture has existed in
Scandinavia, c. 6,000 years. In the early Iron Age, c. 2,000 years ago, a land management …

Land use transition, related to the extensification of management and agricultural
abandonment, is a widespread phenomenon across European landscapes. In this study, we …

We identify hotspots of biocultural value on the national level in Slovakia in order:(1) to
define indicators for the identification and evaluation of biocultural landscape types;(2) to …