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Helle Skånes
Researcher at Stockholm University
Publications - 11
Citations - 3597
Helle Skånes is an academic researcher from Stockholm University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Land use & Land use, land-use change and forestry. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 11 publications receiving 3299 citations.
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The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths
Eric F. Lambin,Billie Turner,Helmut Geist,Samuel Babatunde Agbola,Arild Angelsen,John W. Bruce,Oliver T. Coomes,Rodolfo Dirzo,Günther Fischer,Carl Folke,P.S. George,Katherine Homewood,Jacques Imbernon,Rik Leemans,Xiubin Li,Emilio F. Moran,Michael Mortimore,P. S. Ramakrishnan,John F. Richards,Helle Skånes,Will Steffen,Glenn Davis Stone,Uno Svedin,Tom A. Veldkamp,Coleen Vogel,Jianchu Xu +25 more
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.
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Directions of landscape change (1741–1993) in Virestad, Sweden — characterised by multivariate analysis
Helle Skånes,R.G.H. Bunce +1 more
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.
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Change trajectories and key biotopes : Assessing landscape dynamics and sustainability
Niina Käyhkö,Helle Skånes +1 more
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.
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Retrospective land cover/land use change trajectories as drivers behind the local distribution and abundance patterns of oaks in south-western Finland
Niina Käyhkö,Helle Skånes +1 more
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.
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Current distribution of older and deciduous forests as legacies from historical use patterns in a Swedish boreal landscape (1725–2007)
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.