Naslov
Woody vegetation structure on land abandoned from agricultural production in South Europe

Autori
Radović, Andreja ; Wrbka, Thomas ; Vassilev, Kiril ; Vassiliki, Kati

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, ostalo

Izvornik
International Conference Applied Statistics 2013 Abstracts and Program / Lusa, Lara ; Stare, Janez - Ljubljana : Statistica Society of Slovenia, 2013, 64-64

ISBN
978-961-93547-0-4

Skup
Applied Statistics 2013

Mjesto i datum
Bled, Slovenija, 22.09.2013. - 25.09.2013

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
agriculture; abandonment; woody plants; diversity; birds

Sažetak
Griculture, accounting for almost half of total European area, is one of the main driving forces of current distribution and ecological structure of biological communities. Socio-economic changes over the past few decades have led to major changes in the way of processing agricultural land. These changes can be classified as: 1) intensification of agricultural practices in the areas of good quality and 2) the abandonment of agricultural production in less attractive areas. Diverse studies provided evidence for subsequent propulsion of woody and shrub vegetation after land abandonment. The main research task in this study was revealing 3D woody plant structure on areas where the abandon- ment of agriculture occurs in south Europe and to determine whether the effect of the abandonment of agricultural production is consistent across the region. Data on woody vegetation 3D structure and composition was collected on 72 randomly selected plots of 1km X 1km area, located in SE Europe (Greece, Bulgaria, Croatia and Albania). All 1x1km plots were covered by more than 50% by arable land in the period as far in the past data were available for each country, ranging from 1950ties for Greece to 1970ties for Albania The plots chosen reflect the land abandonment gradient in terms of woody vegetation cover, after the following four categories: 1: 0-25%, 2:25-50%, 3:50-75%, and 4: > 75%. Our study tested how does 3D diversity and functional diversity of woody plants differ across countries in the region. Finally, we extracted the optimal set of landscape metrics that is best correlated with woody vegetation diversity

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Geologija, Biologija

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