Spatiotemporal Analysis of the Controlling Factors of Forest Cover Change in the Romanian Carpathian Mountains

Spatiotemporal Analysis of the Controlling Factors of Forest Cover Change in the Romanian Carpathian Mountains

Forest cover change is driven by complex processes that depend on political, conservation, and biophysical conditions. At present, mountain areas worldwide are undergoing intense forest cover change. Local-scale studies exist, but policy makers lack reliable and consistent information at the regiona...

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Main Authors: Steven Vanonckelen, Anton Van Rompaey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Mountain Society 2015-11-01
Series:Mountain Research and Development
Subjects:
forest cover change
image preprocessing
logistic regression
controlling factors
European Union conservation policies
mountain areas
Carpathian Mountains
Romania
Online Access:http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-15-00014

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