Alcantara, Camilo; Kuemmerle, Tobias; Baumann, Matthias; … - In: Environmental Research Letters 8 (2013) 3, pp. 1-9
1991 led to widespread abandonment of agricultural lands, but the extent and spatial patterns of abandonment are unclear … abandonment rates among countries were striking, suggesting that institutional and socio-economic factors were more important in … determining the amount of abandonment than biophysical conditions. Indeed, much abandoned farmland occurred in areas without major …