The study and assessment of ecosystem services through remote sensing has increased
substantially over the last two decades, as evidenced by the publication of studies that have …

Vegetation productivity is a critical indicator of global ecosystem health and is impacted by
human activities and climate change. A wide range of optical sensing platforms, from ground …

Farmland abandonment in Europe is a major problem because of environmental,
socioeconomic and landscape implications. In this paper, a general view of the extent of …

Global trends in land-use changes, including urbanization and abandonment of rural areas,
have important repercussions for the supply and demand of ecosystem services (ES). In this …

Agricultural abandonment is widespread and growing in many regions worldwide, often
because of agricultural intensification on productive lands, conservation policies, or the …

Assessing changes in the extent and management intensity of land use is crucial to
understanding land-system dynamics and their environmental and social outcomes. Yet …

Abstract The arid southeastern Iberian Peninsula is a unique region in which conservation
and human development have coexisted and coevolved over many decades. However …

In the last decades, the process of land-use intensification linked to human activity has
changed considerably causing important modifications in the traditional dichotomized urban …

Further cropland expansion might be unavoidable to satisfy the growing demand for land-
based products and ecosystem services. A crucial issue is thus to assess the trade-offs …

Assessments of land-system change have dominantly focused on conversions among broad
land-use categories, whereas intensity changes within these categories have received less …