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Engineering, Environmental
Janne Mayra, Sonja Kivinen, Sarita Keski-Saari, Laura Poikolainen, Timo Kumpula
Summary: The study used scanned historical maps and modern topographic databases to analyze the changes in land use and land cover over the past 57 years. It found that the area of fields decreased by 27 km(2), while the length of watercourses increased by 2250 km in the study area.
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Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Nagaraju Chilukoti, Yongkang Xue
Summary: This study used an LULCC map with interannual variations to investigate the biophysical impacts of LULCC on global and regional climates. The results showed that LULCC has negative effects on global precipitation, particularly in degraded regions such as East Asia, West Africa, and South America, leading to reductions in net radiation and evapotranspiration, and subsequent decreases in precipitation.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY
(2021)
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Geography, Physical
Zhenrong Du, Le Yu, Xiyu Li, Jiyao Zhao, Xin Chen, Yidi Xu, Peng Yang, Jianyu Yang, Dailiang Peng, Yueming Xue, Peng Gong
Summary: This study developed a practical framework to automatically update existing land use/land cover (LULC) products and bridge the gap between remote sensing classification results and land survey data. The updated LULC maps accurately reflect recent changes and maintain continuity with previous products. Additionally, a statistical space allocation method was proposed to optimize the maps and increase their correlation with land survey statistics.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DIGITAL EARTH
(2023)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Antonio Minervino Amodio, Dario Gioia, Maria Danese, Nicola Masini, Canio Alfieri Sabia
Summary: Land use and land cover play a significant role in soil erosion and sediment yield. Researching the past using historical maps can help us understand the future landscape changes, which is hindered by the lack of historical information. To address this, we combined an old paper map, aerial photos, and orthophotos to study land-use history and landscape dynamics, focusing on a segment of the Roman route Via Herculia in Italy. Three land-use scenarios were analyzed for different periods, and a soil erosion model was applied to assess the changes in erosion and sediment deposition. The results indicate an increase in erosion and deposition from 1870-1974, followed by a decrease from 1974-2013.
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Plant Sciences
Laurent Berges, Jean-Luc Dupouey
Summary: Forest area in European countries has significantly increased since the 19th century, with at least half of today's forests growing on previously cultivated lands. However, this net forest expansion masks a slow erosion of ancient forests. Meanwhile, forest resource harvesting has shifted towards increased growing stocks in the past two centuries.
JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE
(2021)
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Environmental Studies
Agnieszka Wnek, Dawid Kudas, Premysl Stych
Summary: The paper analyzes land-use changes in urban areas in Czechia, Poland, and Slovakia, finding that urbanized land increased at the expense of agricultural areas, semi-natural areas, and wetlands. According to the proposed LUC models, urbanized areas in FUAs grow significantly in Poland and the least in Slovakia.
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Environmental Studies
Egle Piskinaite, Darijus Veteikis
Summary: Studies of long-term land-use changes can reveal significant results about land use in the past and lead to the main causes of these changes being revealed. Through georeferencing historical maps, it was found that forest land use increased, built-up areas and water bodies expanded, while wetlands and other land use decreased. These land-use changes were mainly influenced by political and economic decisions. These findings provide valuable information for land management and future academic research.
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Development Studies
Jaroslaw Janus, Piotr Bozek, Jaroslaw Taszakowski, Arkadiusz Doroz
Summary: Agricultural land abandonment and depopulation in rural areas are common problems globally. This study focuses on central Poland and uses historical aerial photographs and ALS measurements to analyze the dynamics of land abandonment. Surprisingly, the study finds no intensive depopulation and the age structure changes are similar to those observed in the entire Polish population. This approach allows for an accurate assessment of changes in land use and the duration and dynamics of abandonment.
HABITAT INTERNATIONAL
(2022)
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Environmental Sciences
Mahsa Shahbandeh, Dominik Kaim, Jacek Kozak
Summary: This research uses declassified CORONA satellite imagery and other materials to analyze the changes in forest cover due to land abandonment in central Poland over the past 50 years. It was found that abandoned land has mostly been converted into forest land, and while the forest core areas have increased, the increase in small forest patches has led to a decrease in their share of total forest cover.
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Environmental Sciences
Shahzad Ali, Huang An Qi, Malak Henchiri, Zhang Sha, Fahim Ullah Khan, Muhammad Sajid, Jiahua Zhang
Summary: This study used data from 2001 to 2015 to generate a time series of annual land use and land cover maps in South Asia using random forest classification. The findings show that forest land, farmland, and urban areas have increased, while shrublands, evergreen broadleaf forests, and water bodies have decreased in South Asia over the past 15 years.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
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Environmental Studies
Haizhen Chen, Yi Chen, Xiaosong Chen, Xingzhong Zhang, Haowei Wu, Zhihui Li
Summary: This study explores land use changes and their impacts on five typical ecosystem services in Guangdong province from 1990 to 2020. The results indicate that land use and its changes have a significant impact on ecosystem services.
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Forestry
Beata Fornal-Pieniak, Barbara Zarska, Marcin Ollik
Summary: The research aimed to recognize the edge effects of urban forest on vascular flora in undergrowth layers, comparing plant compositions in different urban forest ecotones. Results showed that protected forest in the city provides better shelter for native forest plants compared to urban forests without protection, where anthropogenic activities lead to inconsistent plant species growth. The findings highlight the importance of balancing nature and human impact for sustainable development in cities.
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Environmental Studies
Gintautas Mozgeris, Daiva Jukneliene
Summary: The study addresses methodological principles for land use development scenario modeling assumed for use in processes of GHG accounting and management, with a focus on Lithuania. Calibration of the modeling approach using historical land use data indicated a high prediction accuracy for forest and built-up land, supporting suggestions for key measures to improve the GHG balance and carbon stock changes in the country.
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Environmental Studies
Marek Giergiczny, Sviataslau Valasiuk, Mikita Yakubouski, Mikolaj Kowalewski, Jedrzej Maskiewicz, Per Angelstam
Summary: This article examines the preferences and attitudes of Polish and Belarusian ecotourism business owners towards the values and protection of the Bialowieza Forest. It found that Belarusian ecotourism business owners supported increased protection, while Polish counterparts did not. The proportion of foreign guests correlated with support for increased protection, while factors such as local origin, business size, and role of foresters as customers decreased interest in protection.
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Environmental Studies
Siyi Kan, Bin Chen, Mengyao Han, Tasawar Hayat, Hamed Alsulami, Guoqian Chen
Summary: This paper provides a comprehensive overview of China's forest land use change in the globalized world economy during 2000-2011, highlighting China's role as a net importer of virtual forest land use due to external demand and displacement of increasing forest land use abroad. The study emphasizes the significant disparities in virtual forest land use consumption between rural and urban households, as well as the environmental inequality associated with growing demand for forest land in the process of urbanization and poverty alleviation, calling for transnational cooperation to promote sustainable forest management worldwide.
Review
Zoology
Magdalena Niedzialkowska, Matthew W. Hayward, Tomasz Borowik, Wlodzimierz Jedrzejewski, Bogumila Jedrzejewska
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Zoology
Ewa Tarnowska, Magdalena Niedzialkowska, Bogumila Jedrzejewska
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sylwia D. Czarnomska, Magdalena Niedzialkowska, Tomasz Borowik, Bogumila Jedrzejewska
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Genetics & Heredity
H. S. Ericson, A. Fedorca, I. Toderas, Z. Hegyeli, K. Plis, I. Dykyy, B. Jedrzejewska, G. Ionescu, M. Fedorca, L. Iacolina, A. V. Stronen
Article
Ecology
Johan Svensson, Jakub W. Bubnicki, Bengt Gunnar Jonsson, Jon Andersson, Grzegorz Mikusinski
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Zoology
Ewa Tarnowska, Magdalena Niedzialkowska, Joanna Stojak, Bogumila Jedrzejewska
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Ecology
Magdalena Niedzialkowska, Karolina Doan, Marcin Gorny, Maciej Sykut, Krzysztof Stefaniak, Natalia Piotrowska, Bogumila Jedrzejewska, Bogdan Ridush, Slawomira Pawelczyk, Pawel Mackiewicz, Ulrich Schmoelcke, Pavel Kosintsev, Daniel Makowiecki, Maxim Charniauski, Dariusz Krasnodebski, Eve Rannamaee, Urmas Saarma, Marine Arakelyan, Ninna Manaseryan, Vadim V. Titov, Pavel Hulva, Adrian Balasescu, Ralph Fyfe, Jessie Woodbridge, Katerina Trantalidou, Vesna Dimitrijevic, Oleksandr Kovalchuk, Jaroslaw Wilczynski, Theodor Obada, Grzegorz Lipecki, Alesia Arabey, Ana Stankovic
Summary: The study focuses on the paleoecology of red deer over the past 54 thousand years in Europe and the Urals, revealing patterns of change in their range and exploring the role of environmental conditions in determining their distribution. Red deer mostly inhabited forests in the temperate climatic zone, with mean January temperature being the main limiting factor for their distribution.
JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Korneliusz Kurek, Olga Gewartowska, Katarzyna Tolkacz, Bogumila Jedrzejewska, Robert W. Myslajek
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Robert Axelsson, Magnus Ljung, Malgorzata Blicharska, Michael Frisk, Marianne Henningsson, Grzegorz Mikusinski, Lennart Folkeson, Gorgen Goransson, Sofia Jonsson-Ekstrom, Anders Sjolund, Jan Skoog, Johan Tornblom, Per Angelstam
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Biodiversity Conservation
Pawel Wolanski, Andrzej Bobiec, Bernadetta Ortyl, Iwona Makuch-Pietras, Pawel Czarnota, Jan Ziobro, Mykola Korol, Serhii Havryliuk, Jakub Paderewski, Keith Kirby
Summary: This study found that in the SE-Polish Carpathian foothills, post-WWII collapse of husbandry and the ban on forest grazing led to dense undergrowth and the formation of an impermeable woodland-open habitat barrier. In W-Ukrainian Ciscarpathia, the young oakwoods are remnants of sparsely treed grasslands, maintained by repetitive grass burning, but remain species-poor due to the lack of livestock-led plant spill-over from the grassland. Restoring species-rich semi-open oak woods requires unsealing the forest-grassland interface and allowing extensive grazing for important seed dispersal.
BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION
(2021)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Michal Walesiak, Grzegorz Mikusinski, Zbigniew Borowski, Michal Zmihorski
Summary: Freshwater wetlands are important biodiversity hotspots, but climate change and wetland fires pose a threat to avian biodiversity. The short-term effect of a large spring wildfire in Biebrza Valley, Poland, was analyzed. The fire significantly reduced the abundance and richness of the bird community, with some species disappearing temporarily. It is crucial to provide additional protection to unburned adjacent areas and prevent further degradation of wetlands to increase their resilience to fire.
BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Clara Vasconcelos, Joana Silva, Cristina S. C. Calheiros, Grzegorz Mikusinski, Katarzyna Iwinska, Ioanna G. Skaltsa, Katarzyna Krakowska
Summary: This study investigates the impact of case-based teaching methodology on higher education students' knowledge about sustainable development through an international project conducted in five countries. The results indicate that case-based teaching significantly improves students' understanding of sustainable development goals and is expected to positively influence pro-environmental behaviors. The cross-country application of case-based teaching is particularly valuable in addressing complex sustainability dilemmas from a global perspective.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Bernadetta Ortyl, Idalia Kasprzyk
Summary: This research analyzes the changes in land use in a small commune called Dukla located in the Polish Carpathians, before and after Poland's accession to the European Union. The study found a decrease in abandoned land and agricultural land, while forest and settlement area increased. The difference between foothills and mountainous regions suggests that mountainous areas lack non-agricultural livelihood opportunities, leading farmers to restore abandoned fields. The impact of environmental factors on abandoned land has also reduced over time.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2022)
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Environmental Sciences
Aneta Bylak, Krzysztof Kukula, Bernadetta Ortyl, Elzbieta Halon, Agata Demczyk, Kinga Janora-Holyszko, Justyna Maternia, Lukasz Szczurowski, Jolanta Ziobro
Summary: Urban expansion and increasing human pressure can cause significant changes in the environment, including the degradation of aquatic ecosystems. However, efforts are often made during urban expansion to provide residents with access to nature. This study analyzed the changes in a submontane stream catchment area in Poland as the city boundaries extended, as well as the impact of urbanization on the ecological conditions of the urban stream and its potential to provide ecosystem services.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Taylor Shaw, Sina-Rebekka Schoenamsgruber, Joao M. Cordeiro Pereira, Grzegorz Mikusinski
Summary: Manually annotating audio files for bird species richness estimation is time-consuming. We found the best subsetting regime by analyzing the effect of different variables.
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2022)