Recent Dynamics of the Mediterranean Vegetation and Landscape (eBook)

Paolo di Martino, Stefano Mazzoleni, Mark Mulligan, Gaetano di Pasquale, Francisco Castro Rego (Herausgeber)

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2004
320 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-0-470-09370-2 (ISBN)

Infos

The Mediterranean region has been shaped by human activity and maintained by traditional practices of land use for centuries. This has affected the distribution of plants and the landscape, which can be considered as part of the European cultural landscape. This book details the rapid changes that have taken place in the vegetation of the Mediterranean in the last half-century, a period in which major socio-economic development greatly affected the cultural and physical landscape.

Autor

Stefano Mazzoleni and Gaetano di Pasquale are the authors of Recent Dynamics of the Mediterranean Vegetation and Landscape, published by Wiley.

Inhalt

PART 1 OVERVIEW OF THE MEDITERRANEAN BASIN.

1. Large Scale Post-Glacial Distribution of VegetationStructures in the Mediterranean Region (Pierre Quézel).

2. Forest History in the Mediterranean Region (Gaetano DiPasquale, Paolo Di Martino and Stefano Mazzoleni).

PART II SOUTHERN LANDSCAPES: GENERAL ISSUES

3. Forest Cover Changes in the Maghreb Countries with SpecialReference to Morocco (Mohamed Rejdali).

4. Long-Term Observation of Mediterranean Ecosystems withSatellite Remote Sensing (J. Hill, P. Hostert and A.Röder).

PART III SOUTHERN LANDSCAPES: CASE STUDIES

5. Landscape Dynamics in a Semi-arid Mediterranean Catchment (SESpain) (Andreu Bonet, Juan Bellot and Juan Peña).

6. Recent Landscape Evolution in Dehesa Woodlands of WesternSpain (P. Regato-Pajares, S. Jiménez-Caballero, M.Castejón and R. Elena-Rosselló).

7. Landscape Dynamics in South-Eastern Sicily in the Last 150Years: The Case of the Iblei Mountains (Gaetano Di Pasquale,Giuseppe Garfi and Antonello Migliozzi).

8. Land Use Changes and Landscape Dynamics in Western Crete (V.P. Papanastasis, I. Ispikoudis, M. Arianoutsou, P. Kakouros and A.Kazaklis).

9. Man-Landscape Relationships in Mediterranean Areas: A Studyof Landscape Changes in the Mount Carmel (Maxim Shoshany, NaftalyGoldshlager, Pua Kutiel and Daniel Grossman).

PART IV NORTHERN LANDSCAPES: GENERAL ISSUES

10. The Impact of Changes in Land-Use on Ecological Patterns inthe Provence (Mediterranean France) (Thierry Tatoni,Frédéric Médail, Philippe Roche and MarcelBarbero).

11. Vegetation Dynamics and Land Use in Epirus (Sander Van DerLeeuw).

PART V NORTHERN LANDSCAPES: CASE STUDIES

12. Recent Changes of Coastal and Sub-mountain VegetationLandscape in Campania and Molise Regions in Southern Italy (StefanoMazzoleni, Paolo Di Martino, Sandro Strumia, Maurizio Buonanno andMaria Bellelli).

13. Consequences of Rural Abandonment in a Northern ApenninesLandscape (Tuscany, Italy) (Giuliana Torta).

14. Changes in the Forested Agricultural Landscape of the PisanHills (Tuscany, Italy) (Andrea Bertacchi and Antonino Onnis).

15. Historical Vegetation Dynamics: Archive and Pollen Evidencefor Ancient Grassland and Plantation in Nineteenth Century Liguria(NW Italy) (Diego Moreno, Carlo Montanari, Maria Angela Guido andGiuseppina Poggi).

16. Rural Changes and Landscape in Serra Da Malcata, CentralEast of Portugal (J. Luís Coelho-Silva, Francisco Castro Rego,Sofia Castelbranco Silveira, Paula C. Cardoso Goniialves andCarlos Alberto Machado).

17. Landscape Dynamics in the area of Serra Da Arrábida andthe Sado River Estuary (Paulo Godinho Ferreira, Mário Almeida,Alexandra Fernandes, Paola Codipietro and Francisco CastroRego).

18. Changes in Landscape Structure of the Natural Park ofAlvão (Portugal) (Isabel Timóteo, João Bento,Francisco Castro Rego and Adelaide Fernandes).

PART VI EDGE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN AREA

19. Land Abandonment and the Spreading of the Forest in theEastern French Pyrenées in the 19th-20th Century (Jean PaulMetaili, and Martin Paegelow)

20. The Natural Dynamics of Abandoned Chestnut Stands inSouthern Switzerland (Marco Conedera, Pietro Stanga, Berhard Oesterand Peter Bachmann).

21. Forest Cover Progression, Land-Use and Socio-EconomicChanges on the Edge of the Mediterranean (Lidija Globevnik, MitjaKaligaric and Andrej Sovinc).

PART VII EPILOGUE

22. Climate change land use change and the "desertification" ofMediterranean Europe (Mark Mulligan, Sophia M. Burke and M.Concepción Ramos).

Rezensionen

"...details the rapid changes that have taken place in the
vegetation of the Mediterranean in the last half century..." (Bois
& Forets Des Tropiques, 3rd Trimester 2005)

"...a wealth of detailed information..." (The Holocene, Vol 15
(6) September 2005)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.10.2004
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: earth sciences • Geomorphologie • geomorphology • Geowissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 0-470-09370-6 / 0470093706
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-09370-2 / 9780470093702