Mapping and modelling of changes in agricultural intensity in Europe

Temme, A.J.A.M.; Verburg, Peter H.

doi:10.1016/j.agee.2010.11.010

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“…We argue, that 15 lack of knowledge on historical legacies and local specificities might be important reasons why European scale maps e.g. for agricultural intensity and land cover changes (Feranec et al 2010, Temme and Verburg 2011, Hatna and Bakker 2011 are often incorrect in Eastern and East-Central Europe. However, data in adequate spatial resolutions, and time shots of many driving factors are missing for large areas in these regions, which strongly limits precise modelling of recent and 20 future land-cover and land-use changes.…”

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Drivers of grassland loss in Hungary during the post-socialist transformation (1987–1999)

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The increase in the speed of land-cover change experienced worldwide is becoming a growing concern. Major socio-economic transitions, such as the breakdown of socialism in Europe, may lead to particularly high rates of landscape transformations. In this paper we examined the loss of semi-natural grasslands in Hungary between 1987 and 1999. We studied the relationship between 9 5 potential driving forces and the fate of grasslands using logistic GLMs.Grassland loss was found to be very high (1.31 % per year), which is far higher than either before or after this period. The most influential predictors of grassland loss were environmental and landscape characteristics (soil type, area of remnant grassland patches), and the socio-economic context (distance to paved road, and nearest settlement, human population density). Several 10 processes and relationships can only be understood from a historical perspective (e.g. large extent of afforestation, strong decrease of soil water table). Grassland loss during the study period emerged as a consequence of survival strategies of individual farmers seeking adaptation to the changing environmental and socio-economic conditions, and not urbanization and agricultural intensification which are the main underlying drivers for the ongoing landscape transformations in 15 most parts of the developed world.Though globalization increasingly influences local land use decisions , reconstructing and modelling recent landscape changes cannot be done without a proper understanding of local history and culture. Our analysis shows the importance of large-area yet high resolution landscape change research, which may reveal unexpected patterns of land cover change, undetected at coarser scales. 20Keywords: East-Central Europe, land-cover change, logistic GLMs, proximate and underlying driving forces LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY, 28: (5) pp. 789-803. (2013) 3

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Drivers of grassland loss in Hungary during the post-socialist transformation (1987–1999)

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“…Nitrogen input is often used as an indicator for agricultural intensification due to its strong effects on the biodiversity of agricultural landscapes, although a combination of different indicators may better capture patterns of intensity Herzog et al, 2006). We created the nitrogen input map following Temme and Verburg (2011) and Overmars et al (2014). This approach was chosen because the resulting pixel-based maps were more suitable for our purpose than nitrogen input levels reported in statistics for national or sub-national administrative units.…”

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Representing composition, spatial structure and management intensity of European agricultural landscapes: A new typology

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Levers

Verburg

et al. 2016

Landscape and Urban Planning

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h i g h l i g h t s• We present a spatially-explicit typology of European agricultural landscapes.• Datasets representing land cover, landscape structure and land management are used.• An expert-based top-down typology is compared with a data-driven bottom-up approach.• Inclusion of land management differentiates our results from existing typologies.• We find clear overlaps in general landscape patterns with existing typologies. a r t i c l e i n f o b s t r a c tComprehensive maps that characterize the variation in agricultural landscapes across Europe are lacking. In this paper we present a new Europe-wide, spatially-explicit typology and inventory of the diversity in composition, spatial structure and management intensity of European agricultural landscapes. Agricultural landscape types were characterized at a 1 km 2 resolution based on Europe-wide datasets that represent land cover, landscape structure and land management intensity. Two alternative approaches for typology development were used: an expert-based top-down approach, and a bottom-up approach based on automated clustering using Self Organizing Maps (SOMs). Comparison with available national and European landscape typologies showed that our typology deviates from existing biophysical and anthropocentric typologies relevant to agricultural landscapes as result of the inclusion of land management aspects. Concordance occurred between specific European typology classes, while the comparison with national landscape typologies showed a correspondence in agricultural landscape patterns. Our agricultural landscape typology can provide a basis for landscape assessment at a European-scale to help to identify agricultural landscape types prone to change and landscapes that may require policy response.

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“…Landcover maps, such as the CORINE maps of the European Commission, are, in general, particularly poor in capturing farmland abandonment as well as intensification and disintensification processes. Fortunately, new land-use intensity datasets for Europe have been or are currently produced, including livestock grazing intensity (Neumann et al 2009(Neumann et al , 2011, fertilizer application (Temme and Verburg 2011), forest harvesting intensity (Levers et al 2014), and cropping intensity (S. Estel, T. Kuemmerle, C. Alcántara, C. Levers, A. Prishchepov, and P. Hostert, unpublished manuscript), offering potential for uptake in more comprehensive landscape characterizations.…”

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Exploring ecosystem-change and society through a landscape lens: recent progress in European landscape research

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Kizos²,

Bieling³

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ABSTRACT. Landscapes are closely linked to human well-being, but they are undergoing rapid and fundamental change. Understanding the societal transformation underlying these landscape changes, as well as the ecological and societal outcomes of landscape transformations across scales are prime areas for landscape research. We review and synthesize findings from six important areas of landscape research in Europe and discuss how these findings may advance the study of ecosystem change and society and its thematic key priorities. These six areas are: (1) linkages between people and the environment in landscapes, (2) landscape structure and land-use intensity, (3) long-term landscape history, (4) driving forces, processes, and actors of landscape change, (5) landscape values and meanings, and (6) landscape stewardship. We propose that these knowledge areas can contribute to the study of ecosystem change and society, considering nested multiscale dynamics of social-ecological systems; the stewardship of these systems and their ecosystem services; and the relationships between ecosystem services, human well-being, wealth, and poverty. Our synthesis highlights that knowledge about past and current landscape patterns, processes, and dynamics provides guidance for developing visions to support the sustainable stewardship of social-ecological systems under future conditions.

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Mapping and modelling of changes in agricultural intensity in Europe

Cited by 121 publications

References 25 publications

Drivers of grassland loss in Hungary during the post-socialist transformation (1987–1999)

Drivers of grassland loss in Hungary during the post-socialist transformation (1987–1999)

Representing composition, spatial structure and management intensity of European agricultural landscapes: A new typology

Exploring ecosystem-change and society through a landscape lens: recent progress in European landscape research

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