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 …

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 …

The growing interest of researchers in the topic of biocultural diversity has resulted in the
research field expanding from its initial focus on places inhabited by indigenous …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

Abstract High-resolution Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) scanners provide detailed
information on terrain surfaces, thus enabling the detection of the topographic signatures of …

Natural and cultural diversity is gaining wider global recognition as the key to sustainable
development. This article looks at the challenges of conserving marine biocultural diversity …