caa a22 4500 605527067 CHVBK 20210128100806.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10531-014-0837-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10531-014-0837-9 Vegetation coverage change in the EU: patterns inside and outside Natura 2000 protected areas [Elektronische Daten] [Athanasios Kallimanis, Konstantinos Touloumis, Joseph Tzanopoulos, Antonios Mazaris, Evangelia Apostolopoulou, Sofia Stefanidou, Anna Scott, Simon Potts, John Pantis] EU conservation policy is primarily based on the Natura 2000 network of protected areas (PAs). We analyzed the land-cover changes between 2000 and 2006 inside 25,703 Natura 2000 sites in 24 EU Member States, and compared them with those observed outside the PAs. At the EU level, ‘Artificial surfaces' and ‘Agricultural areas' exhibit lower rates of transformation within PAs than outside. ‘Forests and semi-natural areas' marginally increased inside PAs, while they marginally decreased outside. In States that joined the EU before 2000, landscape transformation rates were low, and inside PAs ‘Forest' preservation was accompanied with a shift from intensive agricultural practices ‘Permanent arable land' to more diverse ‘Agricultural mosaics'. In new Member States (most of them located in Eastern Europe), there was agricultural abandonment, with conversion to ‘Artificial surfaces' or ‘Natural vegetation', both within and outside PAs. Broad scale EU policies (like the Common Agricultural Policy) and socio-economic drivers (like the transition from planned to market economy) seem to be dominant factors in explaining land-cover transformations, while conservation policies may moderate these trends inside PAs. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Agriculture nationallicence Europe nationallicence Forest nationallicence Land-cover change nationallicence Natura 2000 nationallicence Conservation policy nationallicence Protected areas nationallicence Kallimanis Athanasios Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Patras, 30100, Agrinio, Greece aut Touloumis Konstantinos Department of Ecology, School of Biology, Aristotle University, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece aut Tzanopoulos Joseph Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Marlow Building, CT2 7NR, Canterbury, UK aut Mazaris Antonios Department of Ecology, School of Biology, Aristotle University, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece aut Apostolopoulou Evangelia Department of Ecology, School of Biology, Aristotle University, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece aut Stefanidou Sofia Department of Ecology, School of Biology, Aristotle University, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece aut Scott Anna School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, Reading University, RG6 6AR, Reading, UK aut Potts Simon School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, Reading University, RG6 6AR, Reading, UK aut Pantis John Department of Ecology, School of Biology, Aristotle University, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece aut Biodiversity and Conservation Springer Netherlands 24/3(2015-03-01), 579-591 0960-3115 24:3<579 2015 24 10531 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-014-0837-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-014-0837-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kallimanis Athanasios Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Patras, 30100, Agrinio, Greece aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Touloumis Konstantinos Department of Ecology, School of Biology, Aristotle University, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tzanopoulos Joseph Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Marlow Building, CT2 7NR, Canterbury, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mazaris Antonios Department of Ecology, School of Biology, Aristotle University, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Apostolopoulou Evangelia Department of Ecology, School of Biology, Aristotle University, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Stefanidou Sofia Department of Ecology, School of Biology, Aristotle University, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Scott Anna School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, Reading University, RG6 6AR, Reading, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Potts Simon School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, Reading University, RG6 6AR, Reading, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pantis John Department of Ecology, School of Biology, Aristotle University, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Biodiversity and Conservation Springer Netherlands 24/3(2015-03-01), 579-591 0960-3115 24:3<579 2015 24 10531