Recent Dynamics of the Mediterranean Vegetation and Landscape

Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Recent Dynamics of the Mediterranean Vegetation and Landscape

Editor(s): Stefano Mazzoleni, Gaetano Di Pasquale, Mark Mulligan, Paolo Di Martino, Francisco Rego

Published Online: 13 OCT 2005

Print ISBN: 9780470093696

Online ISBN: 9780470093719

DOI: 10.1002/0470093714

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The Mediterranean region has been shaped by human activity and maintained by traditional practices of land use for centuries.  This has affected the distribution of plants and the landscape, which can be considered as part of the European cultural landscape.  This book details the rapid changes that have taken place in the vegetation of the Mediterranean in the last half-century, a period in which major socio-economic development greatly affected the cultural and physical landscape.

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xiv)

  2. Part I: Overview of the Mediterranean Basin

    1. Chapter 1

      Large-Scale Post-Glacial Distribution of Vegetation Structures in the Mediterranean Region (pages 1–12)

      Professor Emeritus Pierre Quézel

    2. Chapter 2

      Forest History in the Mediterranean Region (pages 13–20)

      Gaetano Di Pasquale, Paolo Di Martino and Stefano Mazzoleni

  3. Part II: Southern Landscapes: General Issues

    1. Chapter 3

      Forest Cover Changes in the Maghreb Countries with Special Reference to Morocco (pages 21–31)

      Mohamed Rejdali

    2. Chapter 4

      Long-Term Observation of Mediterranean Ecosystems with Satellite Remote Sensing (pages 33–43)

      Joachim Hill, Patrick Hostert and Achim Röder

  4. Part III: Southern Landscapes: Case Studies

    1. Chapter 5

      Landscape Dynamics in a Semi-Arid Mediterranean Catchment (SE Spain) (pages 45–56)

      Andreu Bonet, Juan Bellot and Juan Peña

    2. Chapter 6

      Recent Landscape Evolution in Dehesa Woodlands of Western Spain (pages 57–72)

      P. Regato-Pajares, S. Jiménez-Caballero, M. Castejón and R. Elena-Rosselló

    3. Chapter 7

      Landscape Dynamics in South-Eastern Sicily in the Last 150 Years: The Case of the Iblei Mountains (pages 73–80)

      Gaetano Di Pasquale, Giuseppe Garfì and Antonello Migliozzi

    4. Chapter 8

      Land-use Changes and Landscape Dynamics in Western Crete (pages 81–93)

      Vasilios P. Papanastasis, Ioannis Ispikoudis, Margarita Arianoutsou, Petros Kakouros and Angelos Kazaklis

    5. Chapter 9

      Man–Landscape Relationships in Mediterranean Areas: A Study of Landscape Changes in the Mount Carmel (pages 95–104)

      Maxim Shoshany, Naftaly Goldshlager, Pua Kutiel and Daniel Grossman

  5. Part IV: Northern Landscapes: General Issues

    1. Chapter 10

      The Impact of Changes in Land Use on Ecological Patterns in Provence (Mediterranean France) (pages 105–120)

      Thierry Tatoni, Frédéric Médail, Philippe Roche and Marcel Barbero

    2. Chapter 11

      Vegetation Dynamics and Land Use in Epirus (pages 121–141)

      Sander van der Leeuw

  6. Part V: Northern Landscapes: Case Studies

    1. Chapter 12

      Recent Changes of Coastal and Sub-Mountain Vegetation Landscape in Campania and Molise Regions in Southern Italy (pages 143–155)

      Stefano Mazzoleni, Paolo Di Martino, Sandro Strumia, Maurizio Buonanno and Maria Bellelli

    2. Chapter 13

      Consequences of Rural Abandonment in a Northern Apennines Landscape (Tuscany, Italy) (pages 157–165)

      Giuliana Torta

    3. Chapter 14

      Changes in the Forested Agricultural Landscape of the Pisan Hills (Tuscany, Italy) (pages 167–178)

      Andrea Bertacchi and Antonino Onnis

    4. Chapter 15

      Historical Vegetation Dynamics: Archive and Pollen Evidence for Ancient Grassland and Plantation in Nineteenth-century Liguria (NW Italy) (pages 179–187)

      Diego Moreno, Carlo Montanari, Maria Angela Guido and Giuseppina Poggi

    5. Chapter 16

      Rural Changes and Landscape in Serra da Malcata, Central East of Portugal (pages 189–200)

      J. Luís Coelho-Silva, Francisco Castro Rego, Sofia Castelbranco Silveira, C. Paula Cardoso Gonçalves and Carlos Alberto Machado

    6. Chapter 17

      Landscape Dynamics in the Area of Serra Da Arrábida and the Sado River Estuary (pages 201–209)

      Paulo Godinho Ferreira, Mário Almeida, Alexandra Fernandes, Paola Codipietro and Francisco Castro Rego

    7. Chapter 18

      Changes in Landscape Structure of the Natural Park of Alvão (Portugal) (pages 211–216)

      Isabel Timóteo, João Bento, Francisco Castro Rego and Adelaide Fernandes

  7. Part VI: Edge of the Mediterranean Area

    1. Chapter 19

      Land Abandonment and the Spreading of the Forest in the Eastern French Pyrenées in the Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries (pages 217–236)

      Jean Paul Metailié and Martin Paegelow

    2. Chapter 20

      The Natural Dynamics of Abandoned Chestnut Stands in Southern Switzerland (pages 237–247)

      Marco Conedera, Pietro Stanga, Bernhard Oester and Peter Bachmann

    3. Chapter 21

      Forest Cover Progression, Land-use and Socio-Economic Changes on the Edge of the Mediterranean (pages 249–256)

      Lidija Globevnik, Mitja Kaligarič and Andrej Sovinc

  8. Part VII: Epilogue

    1. Chapter 22

      Climate Change, Land-use Change and the “Desertification” of Mediterranean Europe (pages 257–279)

      Mark Mulligan, Sophia M. Burke and M. Concepción Ramos

    2. Chapter 23

      Conclusion: Reversing the Consensus on Mediterranean Desertification (pages 281–285)

      Stefano Mazzoleni, Gaetano Di Pasquale and Mark Mulligan

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      References (pages 287–300)

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      Index (pages 301–306)

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