Helle Skånes

TL;DR: In this article, the authors track some of the major myths on driving forces of land cover change and propose alternative pathways of change that are better supported by case study evidence, concluding that neither population nor poverty alone constitute the sole and major underlying causes of land-cover change worldwide.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate the value of the multivariate method, Principal Components Analysis (PCA) on data relating to landscape elements, to determine the relative directions of change and illustrate landscape dynamics.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a methodological synthesis of two congruent approaches into a common landscape change trajectory analysis and the assessment of landscape dynamics and sustainability, focusing on the retrospective relationship between the past and the present-day landscape patterns and associated key biotopes.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of environmental factors on the present distribution, age and abundance of oaks in a unique forest site in south-western Finland was studied using Landscape Change Trajectory Analysis (LCTA) approach.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors combine historical maps and satellite derived data to reconstruct the development of a Swedish boreal landscape over the past 300 years, and analyze landscape development in cross-tabulation matrixes, building change trajectories.