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Τύπος:	Άρθρο σε επιστημονικό περιοδικό
Τίτλος:	Long-term landscape dynamics to assess land degradation hypotheses—an exploratory study of evidence from travelers’ narrations
Συγγραφέας:	[EL] Δέτσης, Βασίλειος[EN] Detsis, Vassilis [EL] Γκαδόλου, Ελένη[EN] Gkadolou, Eleni [EL] Κουτσοβούλου, Αικατερίνη[EN] Koutsovoulou, Aikaterini [EL] Τόλιας, Γιώργος[EN] Tolias, George
Ημερομηνία:	12/07/2022
Περίληψη:	The present study aims to provide a method for extending the scope of empirical landscape studies into the more distant past and to use it to contribute to the discourse on land degradation in the Mediterranean area. In many areas of the world, the lack of spatially explicit sources, such as historical land cover maps and cadasters, is an obstacle to extending the study of landscape dynamics in the past. Information mined from travelers’ texts can be used to overcome it. Landscape descriptions retrieved from W.M. Leake’s narration of his travels in Peloponnese, Greece, in 1805 and 1806, were georeferenced and used to test for the occurrence of land degradation by comparing historical to current landscapes. A widespread transition of natural vegetation to agricultural areas was found mostly in low altitudes. Limited rewilding occurred on steeper slopes. About a third of the historical Greek fir forests were degraded to open stands. A total of 40% of the locations covered by deciduous oak forests were converted to agricultural areas; most of the rest of these locations were converted to vegetation types characteristic of lower precipitation and soil fertility. Long-term dynamics can be efficiently assessed using narrations as a source of information. The comparison of early 19th century descriptions with the current condition suggests that limited land degradation did take place in the previous centuries in the study area.
Γλώσσα:	Αγγλικά
Σελίδες:	14
DOI:	10.3390/su14148543
EISSN:	2071-1050
Θεματική κατηγορία:	[EL] Γεωεπιστήμες, διεπιστημονική προσέγγιση[EN] Geosciences, interdisciplinary
Λέξεις-κλειδιά:	deciduous oaks forest; Greek fir forest; land cover; land degradation; Land use; landscape history; Peloponnese; travelers’ narrations
Κάτοχος πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων:	© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Όροι και προϋποθέσεις δικαιωμάτων:	This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.orglicenses/by/4.0/).
Ηλεκτρονική διεύθυνση του τεκμηρίου στον εκδότη:	https://doi.org/10.3390/su14148543
Ηλεκτρονική διεύθυνση περιοδικού:	https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability
Τίτλος πηγής δημοσίευσης:	Sustainability
Τεύχος:	14
Τόμος:	14
Σελίδες τεκμηρίου (στην πηγή):	Article no 8543
Σημειώσεις:	This research is co-financed by Greece and the European Union (European Social FundESF) through the Operational Programme ‘Human Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning 2014–2020’ in the context of the project “Degradation and Conservation of Nature: A Digital Atlas of the Peloponnese, 19th-21st century” (MIS 5049018).
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