Maintaining Cultural and Natural Biodiversity in the Carpathian Mountain Ecoregion: Need for an Integrated Landscape Approach

Angelstam, Per; Elbakidze, Marine; Axelsson, Robert; Čupa, Peter; Halada, L.; Molnár, Zsolt; Pătru-Stupariu, Ileana; Perzanowski, Kajetan; Rozulowicz, Laurentiu; Standovár, Tibor; Svoboda, Miroslav; Törnblom, Johan

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-12725-0_28

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“…As a result, closed forest areas have been increasing and traditional ecological knowledge has been declining in Western Europe up to the present [1,16,57]. In Eastern Europe, these changes became evident a little later commencing in the 1950-60s, after the establishment of the Soviet agricultural system [11,58], which is supported by our findings. During collectivization, land ownership was taken away from local communities in tandem with the liquidation of other commons [7,54].…”

Section: Changing Woodland Usesupporting

confidence: 87%

The history and natural regeneration of a secondary oak-beech woodland on a former wood-pasture in Hungary

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Characteristic features of European woodland include both a reduction in natural forest areas and an increase in former agricultural areas occupied by secondary woodland. The management of these areas is challenging in terms of nature conservation, agricultural and forestry management and policy. The aim of our study was to reconstruct the history and to document the current tree stand structure for a secondary oak-beech woodland in Hungary. Towards the end of the 1800s, this area which was once almost completely occupied by a continuous forest, had been transformed into a wood-pasture. As a result of its gradual abandonment, the closed forest stand of the pasture increased from 10 to 52% between 1963 and 2005. The most characteristic feature of this woodland is the abundance of large trees. Globally, the number of large and ancient trees is rapidly diminishing. Therefore preserving and maintaining such areas, where large trees could live, is an essential management task.

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Section: Changing Woodland Usesupporting

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The history and natural regeneration of a secondary oak-beech woodland on a former wood-pasture in Hungary

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“…Altogether, our analysis strengthens the statement that the village, with its characteristic zones of different land use activities from the centre to the periphery, is the most basic unit of Europe's cultural landscapes (Angelstam, Boresj€ o-Bronge, Mikusinski, Sporrong, & W€ astfelt, 2003). Over time, the development of villages became strongly connected to traditional occupations.…”

Section: Is the Historical Continuity Of Land Cover Types An Approprisupporting

confidence: 77%

“…The Carpathians are Europe's largest mountain range and have yet retained traditional cultural landscapes and many of Europe's last wilderness areas (Angelstam, 2006;Angelstam et al, 2013;Elbakidze & Angelstam, 2007;Turnock, 2002). Romania's Carpathians represent two-thirds of the entire Carpathian range (Mehedint¸i, 1943) and cover 28.7% of the country's total area.…”

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Landscape persistence and stakeholder perspectives: The case of Romania's Carpathians

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“…To implement policies about SD and sustainability in European landscapes thus requires regionally and temporally adapted solutions. There is also great opportunity for innovative knowledge production based on comparisons of multiple landscapes as case study areas in different regions of the European continent (Angelstam et al 2011a, 2013c, d). …”

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Measurement, Collaborative Learning and Research for Sustainable Use of Ecosystem Services: Landscape Concepts and Europe as Laboratory

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Policies at multiple levels pronounce the need to encompass both social and ecological systems in governance and management of natural capital in terms of resources and ecosystems. One approach to knowledge production and learning about landscapes as social–ecological systems is to compare multiple case studies consisting of large spaces and places. We first review the landscape concepts’ biophysical, anthropogenic, and intangible dimensions. Second, we exemplify how the different landscape concepts can be used to derive measurable variables for different sustainability indicators. Third, we review gradients in the three dimensions of the term landscape on the European continent, and propose to use them for the stratification of multiple case studies of social–ecological systems. We stress the benefits of the landscape concepts to measure sustainability, and how this can improve collaborative learning about development toward sustainability in social–ecological systems. Finally, analyses of multiple landscapes improve the understanding of context for governance and management.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s13280-012-0368-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Maintaining Cultural and Natural Biodiversity in the Carpathian Mountain Ecoregion: Need for an Integrated Landscape Approach

Cited by 19 publications

References 95 publications

The history and natural regeneration of a secondary oak-beech woodland on a former wood-pasture in Hungary

The history and natural regeneration of a secondary oak-beech woodland on a former wood-pasture in Hungary

Landscape persistence and stakeholder perspectives: The case of Romania's Carpathians

Measurement, Collaborative Learning and Research for Sustainable Use of Ecosystem Services: Landscape Concepts and Europe as Laboratory

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