Land cover changes and forest succession trends in a site of Natura 2000 network (Elatia forest), in northern Greece

2012 ◽  
Vol 285 ◽  
pp. 153-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolaos Oikonomakis ◽  
Petros Ganatsas
Keyword(s):  
Land Cover ◽  
Forest Succession ◽  
Natura 2000 ◽  
Land Cover Changes ◽  
Northern Greece ◽  
Natura 2000 Network ◽  
A Site

scholarly journals Secondary forest succession in Silver birch (Betula pendula Roth) and Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) southern limits in Europe, in a site of Natura 2000 network – an ecogeographical approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. e010
Author(s):  
Nikolaos Georgios Oikonomakis ◽  
Petros Ganatsas
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Pinus Sylvestris ◽  
Betula Pendula ◽  
Forest Succession ◽  
Secondary Forest ◽  
Natura 2000 ◽  
Forest Species ◽  
Natura 2000 Network ◽  
Secondary Forest Succession ◽  
A Site

Aim of the study: To investigate the secondary forest succession in the study area and the pathways of its spread and the existing environmental, autecological factors and possible inter-specific competition relationships.Area of study: The study area is a Site of Natura 2000 network in northern Greece dominated by two pioneer forest species, Betula pendula and Pinus sylvestris. Study area is the southern limit of Silver birch in Europe and genotypes of these forests may be important due to the anticipated global increase of temperature and the forthcoming climate change.Materials and methods: The main forest types studied were: pure forests of B. pendula and P. sylvestris and mixed forests of these two main species. To study the expansion of forests in the area, a spatial analysis was performed based on geographical data. To detect forest changes, the rate thereof and their specific spatial distribution and preferences, a statistical analysis was performed.Main results: Approximately 60% of the studied area in 1945 was transformed from grasslands/barelands to forests. The composition of new forests was found to be different from the old ones. The rate of forest establishment in the first years was lower than in the latter years. All factors examined played an important role to the expansion of forest exept slope.Research highlights: Distance from the old stands played the most determining role to new forest structure and composition. Inter-specific competition results to the formation of pure stands, as indicated by the older stands.Keywords: secondary forest succession; Betula pendula; GIS; spatial analysis; forest species competition; forest species distribution.

scholarly journals Landscape Changes in Protected Areas in Poland

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 753
Author(s):  
Anna Zbierska
Keyword(s):  
Land Cover ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Coniferous Forest ◽  
Ecological Integrity ◽  
Natura 2000 ◽  
Nature Protection ◽  
Natura 2000 Network ◽  
Buffer Zones ◽  
Legal Forms

Land-Use Cover Changes (LUCCs) are one of the main problems for the preservation of landscapes and natural biodiversity. Protected Areas (PAs) do not escape this threat. Poland is among the European leaders in terms of the variety of landscapes and the share of an area designated as a protected area. However, as many as 78% of the habitats have poor or bad conservation status based on EEA reports. This article analyzes the LUCCs between 2000 and 2018 in various types of the Polish legal forms of nature protection areas and the European Natura 2000 network within the country. The research material was: the data of Corine Land Cover (CLC), the Central Register of Nature Protection Forms, and high-resolution layers, such as HRL and orthophotos. The results were compiled according to the CLC class and forms of protection. The matrix of transformations showed that the most frequently transformed CLC class was 312 (coniferous forest). It was transformed into class 324 (transitional woodland shrubs). The changes in PAs were usually smaller than in the surrounding buffer zones, which may indicate their effectiveness. The exception was the areas of the European Natura 2000 network. The scale of land-cover flows (LCFs) changed within particular forms of protected areas, though afforestation and deforestation predominating in all area types. National reserves and parks were the most stable in terms of land cover structures. However, human settlements increased around the protected areas, potentially increasing threats to their ecological integrity.

scholarly journals Modelling of a forest succession development in local geoecosystems of Ukrainian Carpathians

2014 ◽  
pp. 243-253
Author(s):  
Anatoliy Smaliychuk
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Forest Succession ◽  
Spatial Modelling ◽  
Regression Coefficients ◽  
Land Cover Changes ◽  
Anthropogenic Drivers

The paper showed an algorithm and a result of analysis of recent geoecosystem dynamic’s drivers, which reveals in its land cover changes. Five model municipalities were selected for this study in the foothill, low and middle mountain within Lviv region. The statistical analysis was performed using mathematical model of logistic regression. It was found out that geoecosystems’ changes is more connected with natural, than anthropogenic, drivers of land use. The logistic regression coefficients, calculated during statistical analysis, were used for spatial modelling of forest succession probability in geoecosystems in future. Key words: Ukrainian Carpathians, geoecosystems, land cover, forest succession, statistical analysis, logistic regression, GIS.

scholarly journals Romanian Natura 2000 Network: Evaluation of the Threats and Pressures through the Corine Land Cover Dataset

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (13) ◽  
pp. 2075 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Ursu ◽  
Cristian Constantin Stoleriu ◽  
Constantin Ion ◽  
Vasile Jitariu ◽  
Andrei Enea
Keyword(s):  
Land Cover ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Natura 2000 ◽  
Land Cover Changes ◽  
Corine Land Cover ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Natura 2000 Site ◽  
New Guidelines ◽  
The Impact

The present paper aims to evaluate if the Natura 2000 sites in Romania are placed over dynamic areas from a land cover changes perspective, or if they are placed in areas with low human interest and what the impact of these changes are. The effectiveness of conservation measures was addressed by analyzing the number of land cover changes and their areas in Natura 2000 sites, before and after declaring them as protected areas. Corine Land Cover (CLC) data were used as a tool to identify threats and pressures from each Natura 2000 site, and also assess whether land cover changes are more frequent in sites with a high biodiversity index, compared to those with low diversity, in order to estimate the conservation status. Changes in the land cover during 1990–2018 are characterized by three types of events, from 1990 to 2000 with most changes recorded, followed by a relative period of stability from 2000 to 2012; the most dynamic period is from 2012 to 2018. The main changes are due to deforestation. Only 29.7% ROSCI (Romanian Sites of Community Importance) and 36.5% ROSPA (Romanian Special Protected Areas) sites are characterized by a good degree of conservation without or with low modifications regarding the land cover. The most frequent threats and pressures that were found through CLC changes in the ROSCIs in Romania are related to forestry, grazing, the extent of the urbanized environment and those related to agriculture. The correspondence between Corine Land Cover and Natura 2000 specific threats and pressures emphasizes new guidelines for the Corine Land Cover program; therefore, this correspondence can be a potential tool to get more information for Natura 2000 sites.

scholarly journals Odonata checklist of Nature Reserve and SAC (Special Area of Conservation) “Vallone di Piano della Corte” (Sicily, Italy)

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 837-844
Author(s):  
Paolo Galasso ◽  
Renzo Ientile
Keyword(s):  
Nature Reserve ◽  
Natura 2000 ◽  
Natura 2000 Network ◽  
Special Area ◽  
A Site

From March to September 2018 and 2019, a first monitoring of Odonata promoted by CUTGANAwas conducted inside a site of Natura 2000 network, named “Vallone di Piano della Corte”, nearAgira (Enna), Sicily. A total of 21 different species were recorded, including Pyrrhosoma nym-phula (Sulzer, 1776), for which there are no stations reported for this side of Sicily.

scholarly journals Improving Scientific Knowledge of Mallorca Channel Seamounts (Western Mediterranean) within the Framework of Natura 2000 Network

Diversity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Enric Massutí ◽  
Olga Sánchez-Guillamón ◽  
Maria Teresa Farriols ◽  
Desirée Palomino ◽  
Aida Frank ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Information ◽  
Natura 2000 ◽  
Western Mediterranean ◽  
Habitats Directive ◽  
Natura 2000 Network ◽  
Scientific Exploration ◽  
Special Area ◽  
Maerl Beds ◽  
A Site ◽  
Diverse Groups

The scientific exploration of Mallorca Channel seamounts (western Mediterranean) is improving the knowledge of the Ses Olives (SO), Ausias March (AM), and Emile Baudot (EB) seamounts for their inclusion in the Natura 2000 network. The aims are to map and characterize benthic species and habitats by means of a geological and biological multidisciplinary approach: high-resolution acoustics, sediment and rock dredges, beam trawl, bottom trawl, and underwater imagery. Among the seamounts, 15 different morphological features were differentiated, highlighting the presence of 4000 pockmarks, which are seafloor rounded depressions indicators of focused fluid flow escapes, usually gas and/or water, from beneath the seabed sediments. So far, a total of 547 species or taxa have been inventoried, with sponges, fishes, mollusks, and crustaceans the most diverse groups including new taxa and new geographical records. Up to 29 categories of benthic habitats have been found, highlighting those included in the Habitats Directive: maërl beds on the summits of AM and EB, pockmarks around the seamounts and coral reefs in their rocky escarpments as well as fields of Isidella elongata on sedimentary bathyal bottoms. Trawling is the main demersal fishery developed around SO and AM, which are targeted to deep water crustaceans: Parapenaeus longirostris, Nephrops norvegicus, and Aristeus antennatus. This study provides scientific information for the proposal of the Mallorca Channel seamounts as a Site of Community Importance and for its final declaration as a Special Area of Conservation.

scholarly journals Land Cover Changes in Natura 2000 Areas Located in Suburban Zones: Planning Problems in the Context of Environmental Protection

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 587-595 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Gałecka-Drozda ◽  
Elżbieta Raszeja ◽  
Magdalena Szczepańska ◽  
Agnieszka Wilkaniec
Keyword(s):  
Land Cover ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Natura 2000 ◽  
Land Cover Changes ◽  
Planning Problems

scholarly journals Monitoring the Secondary Forest Succession and Land Cover/Use Changes of the Błędów Desert (Poland) Using Geospatial Analyses

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Szostak ◽  
Piotr Wężyk ◽  
Paweł Hawryło ◽  
Marta Puchała
Keyword(s):  
Land Cover ◽  
Forest Succession ◽  
Secondary Forest ◽  
Temporal Distribution ◽  
Natura 2000 ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Continuous Increase ◽  
Secondary Forest Succession ◽  
Landsat 7 ◽  
Bare Soils

Abstract The role of image classification based on multi-source, multi-temporal and multi-resolution remote sensed data is on the rise in the environmental studies due to the availability of new satellite sensors, easier access to aerial orthoimages and the automation of image analysis algorithms. The remote sensing technology provides accurate information on the spatial and temporal distribution of land use and land cover (LULC) classes. The presented study focuses on LULC change dynamics (especially secondary forest succession) that occurred between 1974 and 2010 in the Błędów Desert (an area of approx. 1210 ha; a unique refuge habitat – NATURA 2000; South Poland). The methods included: photointerpretation and on-screen digitalization of KH-9 CORONA (1974), aerial orthoimages (2009) and satellite images (LANDSAT 7 ETM+, 1999 and BlackBridge – RapidEye, 2010) and GIS spatial analyses. The results of the study have confirmed the high dynamic of the overgrowth process of the Błędów Desert by secondary forest and shrub vegetation. The bare soils covered 19.3% of the desert area in 1974, the initial vegetation and bush correspondingly 23.1% and 30.5%. In the years 2009/2010 the mentioned classes contained: the bare soils approx. 1.1%, the initial vegetation – 8.7% and bush – 15.8%. The performed classifications and GIS analyses confirmed a continuous increase in the area covered by forests, from 11.6% (KH-9) up to 24.2%, about 25 years later (LANDSAT 7) and in the following 11 years, has shown an increase up to 35.7% (RapidEye 2010).

scholarly journals The vegetation of a historic road system in the suburban area of Monte Pellegrino (Palermo, Sicily)

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-103
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Gianguzzi ◽  
Giuseppe Bazan
Keyword(s):  
Building Materials ◽  
Natura 2000 ◽  
Natura 2000 Network ◽  
New Associations ◽  
Architectural Features ◽  
Natural Reserve ◽  
Special Area ◽  
A Site ◽  
Cut Slopes ◽  
First Time

Knowledge of the processes by which plants colonize old structures is a key element for nature-based design both in urban and suburban contexts. This paper analyses the natural vegetation on walls and in other microhabitats of the roadway structures of Monte Pellegrino (606 m a.s.l.) near Palermo (Sicily), built in the first half of the 1900s. The historical road has particular construction and architectural features, and its characteristics have been maintained to this day. The route, approximately 16 kilometers long, is well integrated within a site of high naturalistic value which has been designated as a Special Area of Conservation (ITA020014) of the Natura 2000 network, and it is also a regional natural reserve. The survey was carried out on different homogeneous ecological contexts based on different microhabitats (masonry retaining walls, masonry guardwalls, road margins, and rock cut slopes) which are diversified according to other environmental factors (building materials, inclination, height, and exposure). The phytosociological and statistical analysis has led to the description of six new associations (Crepido bursifoliae-Parietarietum judaicae ass. nov., Athamanto siculae-Parietarietum judaicae ass. nov., Helichryso panormitani-Hypochaeridetum laevigatae ass. nov., Diantho siculi-Helichrysetum panormitani Gianguzzi ass. nov., Olopto miliacei-Pennisetetum setacei Gianguzzi ass. nov., Teucrio flavi-Rhoetum coriariae Gianguzzi ass. nov.) and one sub-association (Rhamno alaterni-Euphorbietum dendroidis Géhu & Biondi 1997 artemisietosum arborescentis subass. nov.). Other chasmophytic formations (Centranthetum rubri Oberd. 1969, Antirrhinetum siculi Bartolo & Brullo 1986) were reported for the first time in this area.

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