Question: The European forest-steppe ecotone extends over 6,000 km from the Carpathian to the Ural Mountains. It is extensively used for agriculture with very few patches of semi-natural vegetation.

The Volga Forest Steppe Nature Reserve was established in the Penza region in the south-west of the Volga Upland to preserve and restore the steppes of the northern type and forest ecosystems. Despite ...

Land use history reconstructions in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere indicate that periods of deforestation are often followed by natural afforestation, so that the long-term outcome at ...

The students of Middle East Technical University (METU) have been resisting against a state dormitory planned to be constructed on 40-decare poplar woods at their campus. We have compiled a brief ...

A typical forest-steppe landscape consisting of forest and grassland patches in the Southeast Europe region of the Eurasian forest-steppe zone. Hierarchical clustering of the Eurasian forest-steppe ...

Zagros forests are among the most important natural resources of Iran, as it constitutes 40 percent of the country's forests, and play an important role in the production of a large part of the ...

Southeastern Europe played an important role in the spread of the agricultural lifestyle during the Neolithic 9000 to 8000 years ago. Expanding early farming groups introduced many cultural and ...