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This chapter analyzes forest cover change (FCC) with respect to the natural landscape structure and proximity to roads and settlements in two municipalities: Stara Sil’ and Boberka in the Ukrainian Carpathians. A natural landscape is perceived as a mosaic of natural geoecosystems (GES), whose pattern is defined by landforms, which also reflect distribution of other hydro climatic and biotic components, including the potential natural vegetation (PNV). The forest cover of the 1980s was digitized from topographic maps, while its recent change was manually detected using high-resolution images from the Google Earth. The FCC data were overlaid with the natural GES data for further analysis. Proximity to roads and settlements was included into the analysis as an additional economic parameter. The important intermediate result of the study is a geodataset of natural GES that includes 35 types with attributes on topographic location, average altitude, mean slope, soil, and dominant PNV sub-formation. We distinguished five types of FCC. The total area with the FCC is estimated as 79.4 ha (2.5 %) for Stara Sil’ and 715.9 ha (10.5 %) for Boberka. A common trend is the increase of the forested area due to forest succession on former agricultural land.
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Smaliychuk, A., Kruhlov, I. (2013). Recent Forest Cover Change in Low Mountain Landscapes of Lviv Oblast in the Ukrainian Carpathians. In: Kozak, J., Ostapowicz, K., Bytnerowicz, A., Wyżga, B. (eds) The Carpathians: Integrating Nature and Society Towards Sustainability. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12725-0_47
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