Agriculture terraces constitute a significant element of the Mediterranean landscape, enabling crop production on steep slopes while protecting land from desertification. Despite their ecological and historical value, terrace cultivation is threatened by climate change leading to abandonment further marginalization arable imposing serious environmental community hazards. Re-cultivation terraced...

The massive abandonment of arable land in Russia the 1990s had a heavy impact on country’s land-use structure. cessation cultivation leads to decrease provisioning ecosystem services within landscape, while creating an opportunity enhance supply diverse regulation services. Consideration this is increasingly important for environmental management and landscape planning. In article, we present a...

Large areas of tropical forests have been converted to agricultural land and subsequently abandoned. If restoration can occur on these abandoned lands, it offers great potential for biodiversity recovery, carbon sequestration, and enhanced ecosystem services. To understand the interaction between different forms of anthropogenic degradation and restoration strategies we examined biomass accumul...

Abstract We assessed the process of carbon (C) accumulation as a consequence forest expansion in abandoned agricultural lands over period 1977–2017 vast (9.4 million ha) area Mediterranean continental environment Central-North Spain. achieved this objective, through obtaining AGC and BGC estimations based on direct field measurements taken 30 plots (25 m × 25 m), extrapolating to landscape usin...

Areas of agricultural land in Lithuania have decreased from 2005 to 2021 by up 2.4%. Agricultural lands that are no longer used for their main purpose very likely become abandoned and the emergence such can cause a variety social, economic, environmental problems. Therefore, it is important constantly monitor changes lands. The research analyse influence seasonality on image segmentation identi...

First posted June 23, 2023 For additional information, contact: Director, Florence Bascom Geoscience CenterU.S. Geological Survey926A National Center12201 Sunrise Valley DriveReston, VA 20192Contact Pubs Warehouse Abandoned railroads and infrastructure from the anthracite coal-mining industry are significant features in abandoned mine lands an important part of history; however, these often los...