Long-term forest cover and height changes on abandoned agricultural land: An assessment based on historical stereometric images and airborne laser scanning data

Janus, Jarosław; Bożek, Piotr; Mitka, Bartosz; Taszakowski, Jarosław; Doroż, Arkadiusz

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106904

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“…Forests are desirable in Polish cities because they constitute part of its green tissue, providing a buffer and connectivity between green urban areas and green suburban areas (for movement of genetic material, bird migration and other ecosystem processes) (Bozetka, 2008). Moreover, the role of forests is significant in that they are a stable and diversified ecosystem, a pillar of green urban areas (Janus et al, 2021).…”

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Exploring green areas in Polish cities in context of anthropogenic land use changes

Noszczyk

Cegielska

Rogatka

et al. 2022

The Anthropocene Review

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Recent decades saw a global degradation of ecosystems and climate change caused by rapid anthropogenic socio-economic growth. The paper investigates spatio-temporal changes in green areas in Polish cities. The study involved two levels: macro (all 936 towns and cities in Poland) and micro (zooming in on Kraków and Toruń) from 2006 to 2018. The authors analysed 64,312 records of statistical data and 32,317 polygons representing areas of specific land use categories in the Urban Atlas with GIS tools and algorithms. Results for the entire country (a macro level) indicate that the area of forests in cities is in decline, but the total share of green urban areas is increasing slightly. Polish towns and cities also exhibit a positive balance of shrub count and a negative balance of tree count. At a micro level, land use analysis indicates a slight decrease in green urban areas, but an increase in the forest area. Moreover, an analysis of the spatial distributions of changes in green areas in Kraków and Toruń demonstrated specific trends. Sites exhibiting a significant decrease in green urban areas were found mainly along main transport routes. Moreover, incomplete green belts around highly urbanised zones turned out to be a characteristic component. The slight differences in results at a micro and macro level are due to a more significant generalisation at a macro level. Micro-level research focuses on an individual case. Hence, it should be used mainly to juxtapose cities, while the macro-level perspective is adequate for cross-country analyses, for example. The results are relevant to urban policies deployed by local and regional authorities, the European Green Deal and climate neutrality.

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Exploring green areas in Polish cities in context of anthropogenic land use changes

Noszczyk

Cegielska

Rogatka

et al. 2022

The Anthropocene Review

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“…The primary threat to the upland is the lack of an effective local spatial development plan to prevent the introduction of alien architectural patterns and projects (Table 2). Additionally, the economic situation unfavourable for rural areas and a short distance to urban zones reduce the economic viability of farming, which contributes to the gradual reduction of agricultural land, increase in land set aside and under forest succession (Janus et al 2021;Janus and Bozek 2019a, b). The effect is amplified by various measures for environmental protection that imposed limitations on selected agricultural activities.…”

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Arguments based on biocultural diversity to cease abandonment of traditional agricultural systems: Lessons from Poland

2021

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The Polish rural cultural landscape is inherently linked to a special, centuries-old system that combines agricultural tradition and biodiversity. One of such environmentally, ecologically, agriculturally, historically, and culturally unique areas is the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. Home to small agricultural holdings, this diversified mosaic is where agricultural, husbandry, craft, and local industry experience is handed down the generational chain. Developmental changes and progress are becoming the gravest threats to the area. The purpose of the paper is to assess traditional agricultural systems in the Lesser Poland part of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland considering landscape features, agricultural biodiversity, food and livelihood security, traditional local knowledge systems, cultural values—in particular, systems of values—and social organisations that promote them. The research shows that biodiversity is entwined with cultural diversity. The vanishing of agricultural systems due to changed socio-economic conditions and environmental overprotection is a serious threat to the biological and cultural diversity in the upland. The authors employed a SWOT analysis—a tool that can investigate interactions and determine the best development strategy—to identify relationships between cultural and biological diversity.

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“…LiDAR sounding is a good solution to explore the vegetation dynamics of abandoned agricultural lands. Three-dimensional laser scanning allows for the determination of stand parameters such as volume, crown area, and stand height, which are closely related to the stages of reforestation [30][31][32]. However, some information about the formation of tree stands on abandoned arable lands can be obtained using the dynamics of changes in crown cover-the vertical projection area of the tree crown edge (the outermost perimeter of the natural spread of the foliage, which includes within-crown gaps) per unit of the horizontal ground surface area, which includes within-crown gaps [33].…”

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Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Betula pendula Crown Cover on Abandoned Arable Land in a Broad-Leaved Forest Zone of Bashkir Cis-Ural

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Tuktamyshev,

Bikbaev

et al. 2023

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Silver birch (Betula pendula Roth) is one of the fast-growing tree species that often colonize abandoned agricultural lands in Europe and the European part of Russia. The purpose of this article is to analyze the spatiotemporal dynamics of Betula pendula crown cover on abandoned arable lands in a zone of broad-leaved forests of the Bashkir Cis-Ural (Russia, Republic of Bashkortostan). The assessment of current and retrospective values of crown cover was carried out using a regression model of the dependence of crown cover on the values of red channel brightness in early-spring images from Landsat 5–8 and Sentinel-2 satellites from 2012–2022. To estimate the number and height of trees, a survey was carried out using a LiDAR camera mounted on a UAV. After calculating the crown cover in grid squares and their distance from the seed source in QGIS, variance analysis was carried out to assess the influence of the factor of distance from the seed source on the crown cover. The influence of the factor of distance from the seed source on the crown cover was higher at earlier stages of overgrowth of abandoned agricultural lands. An exception to this dependence was only one sample plot where the prevailing wind direction was opposite to the direction of seed dispersal. The leading factors affecting the distribution of birch on abandoned agricultural lands were wind direction, height of seed trees, and grazing. In the parts of the sample plots that were furthest away from seed sources, the trees were 1–3 years younger or the same age, and stand density was lower than in sites located closer to the seed trees. In general, the results of the present study indicate two opposite relationships between seedling survival and distance to seed trees: (1) seed fall and seedling density decrease with increasing distance from the seed tree, and (2) the probability of seed/seedling survival increases due to decreased competition.

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Long-term forest cover and height changes on abandoned agricultural land: An assessment based on historical stereometric images and airborne laser scanning data

Cited by 13 publications

References 90 publications

Exploring green areas in Polish cities in context of anthropogenic land use changes

Exploring green areas in Polish cities in context of anthropogenic land use changes

Arguments based on biocultural diversity to cease abandonment of traditional agricultural systems: Lessons from Poland

Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Betula pendula Crown Cover on Abandoned Arable Land in a Broad-Leaved Forest Zone of Bashkir Cis-Ural

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