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Matthias Bürgi
Landscape Ecology
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A case study of forest change in the Swiss lowlands
This paper presents a regional case study of forest development and the history of forest use and management in the north-eastern lowlands of Switzerland during the 19th and 20th centuries. The analysis draws ...
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Driving forces of landscape change — current and new directions
The concept of driving forces is gaining increasing attention in landscape-change research. We summarize the state of the art of this field and present new conceptual and methodological directions for the stud...
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Driving forces of landscape change - current and new directions
The concept of driving forces is gaining increasing attention in landscape-change research. We summarize the state of the art of this field and present new conceptual and methodological directions for the stud...
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Using the Past to Understand the Present Land Use and Land Cover
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Three objectives of historical ecology: the case of litter collecting in Central European forests
Most ecosystems and landscapes worldwide are dominated or influenced by human impacts. Consequently, studies of pattern and processes of and within anthropogenic ecosystems and cultural landscapes have to cons...
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The recent landscape history of Limpach valley, Switzerland: considering three empirical hypotheses on driving forces of landscape change
Understanding global landscape dynamics is a core challenge for the newly emerged field of land change science. Such an understanding requires insights into general pattern of landscape changes and the related...
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Reconstructing the collapse of wetland networks in the Swiss lowlands 1850–2000
In Central Europe vast wetland areas have been converted into agricultural land over the past few centuries. Long-term spatially explicit reconstructions of wetland cover changes at regional scale are rare but...
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Soil carbon pools in Swiss forests show legacy effects from historic forest litter raking
Globally, forest soils contain twice as much carbon as forest vegetation. Consequently, natural and anthropogenic disturbances affecting carbon accumulation in forest soils can alter regional to global carbon ...
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Open AccessLinking ecosystem services with landscape history
The concept of ecosystem services (ES) has become widely used because it bridges ecology and economics and links nature to society. ES may evolve over time in dynamic landscapes driven by myriad processes. How...
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264 years of change and persistence in an agrarian landscape: a case study from the Swiss lowlands
Century-long interaction between societies and their environment has shaped the cultural landscapes across Europe. Specific farming systems have persisted for long periods, and their abandonment has led to far...
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Analyzing dynamics and values of cultural landscapes
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Priority questions for the science, policy and practice of cultural landscapes in Europe
The design of effective responses to safeguard cultural landscape values in Europe needs collaborative action among the stakeholders involved. Despite considerable progress triggered by the European Landscape ...
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Land-use regime shift triggered the recent degradation of alpine pastures in Nyanpo Yutse of the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
The eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau is a cultural landscape where traditional pastoralism substantially shaped the present mosaic structure of the alpine grasslands. During the past two decades, however, sever...
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Open AccessProcesses and driving forces in changing cultural landscapes across Europe
Cultural landscapes evolve over time. However, the rate and direction of change might not be in line with societal needs and more information on the forces driving these changes are therefore needed.
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Open AccessRestoring steppe landscapes: patterns, drivers and implications in Russia’s steppes
Agricultural land abandonment across the steppe belt of Eurasia has provided an opportunity for the restoration of steppe landscapes in recent decades. However, global food demands are about to revert this tra...
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Open AccessLandscape ecology reaching out
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Open AccessUsing a landscape ecological perspective to analyze regime shifts in social–ecological systems: a case study on grassland degradation of the Tibetan Plateau
Landscape ecology thinking and social–ecological system (SES) thinking investigate human–environment relationships from the perspective of ‘space’ and ‘system’, respectively. To date, empirical landscape ecolo...
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Open AccessHow to consider history in landscape ecology: patterns, processes, and pathways
Landscape ecology early on developed the awareness that central objects of investigation are not stable over time and therefore the historical dimension must be included, or at least considered.
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Exploring the common ground of landscape ecology and landscape archaeology through a case study from eastern Anatolia, Turkey
Landscape archaeology has a lot to offer to landscape ecology, being an interdisciplinary approach that emphasizes the study of long-term human–environment dynamics.
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Open AccessMap** lock-ins and enabling environments for agri-food sustainability transitions in Europe
European agri-food systems must overcome structural lock-ins to achieve more sustainable modes of production and consumption. Yet European regions are highly diverse, and we lack understanding of how different...
