2015
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi4020957
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The Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Forest–Heathland Communities over 60 Years in Fontainebleau, France

Abstract: According to the EU Habitats Directive, heathlands are "natural habitats of community interest". Heathland management aims at conserving these habitats threatened by various changes, including successional processes leading to forest vegetation. We investigate the dynamics of woody species to the detriment of heathland over a period of 60 years in the Fontainebleau forest and we examine the effects of soil types, soil depth and topography parameters on heathland stability. We assess changes in forest cover bet… Show more

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“…While the combined crisp map may be unreliable for estimating the area and range of heathland habitats under Article 17 of the EU Habitats Directive (Röschel et al., 2020), suitability maps are of great value for supporting field surveys but also identifying suitable sites for restoration, especially outside protected areas where knowledge of habitat distribution is still insufficient. Although the spatial resolution of Sentinel‐2 images is adequate to identify heathland habitats, the use of airborne remote sensing data with sub‐metric spatial resolution is still needed to finely characterize their inner structure (Schmidt et al., 2017) and dynamics (Mobaied et al., 2015).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…While the combined crisp map may be unreliable for estimating the area and range of heathland habitats under Article 17 of the EU Habitats Directive (Röschel et al., 2020), suitability maps are of great value for supporting field surveys but also identifying suitable sites for restoration, especially outside protected areas where knowledge of habitat distribution is still insufficient. Although the spatial resolution of Sentinel‐2 images is adequate to identify heathland habitats, the use of airborne remote sensing data with sub‐metric spatial resolution is still needed to finely characterize their inner structure (Schmidt et al., 2017) and dynamics (Mobaied et al., 2015).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Kepfer-Rojas et al selected a heathland that has been unmanaged for over a century, but with unknown impediments to successional changes that limited tree invasion. In other areas, such as coastal western Spain, vegetation rapidly changes after abandonment (Fag undez 2016), and management is needed at some level of intensity to maintain heathland structure in south England (Cordingley et al 2015), Scotland (Britton et al 2016), Ireland (Coll et al 2016) and France (Mobaied et al 2015).…”
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“…Spatial interpolation is also used by Mobaied et al [5] to create a soil depth surface map, which in addition to soil type, slope and aspect, are used to investigate their effects on heathland stability. Using transition matrices to trace landscape change over time and spatial methods to analyze the association between the aforementioned factors and the dynamics of heathland has helped to unpack the complicated changes that have occurred in a section of the Fontainbleau Forest in France over the last 60 years.…”
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