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DOI	10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147408
	Land cover and vegetation carbon stock changes in Greece: A 29-year assessment based on CORINE and Landsat land cover data
	Gemitzi, Alexandra; Albarakat, Reyadh; Kratouna, Foteini; Lakshmi, Venkat
通讯作者	Gemitzi, A (corresponding author), Democritus Univ Thrace, Fac Engn, Dept Environm Engn, V Sofias 12, Xanthi 67100, Greece.
来源期刊	SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
ISSN	0048-9697
EISSN	1879-1026
出版年	2021
卷号	786
英文摘要	Evaluation of carbon sequestration in various land cover types is a valuable tool for environmental policies targeting towards minimization of CO2 emissions and climate change impacts. For the past few decades, remotely sensed information on land cover has been used as useful alternative to ground observations and has proved to be a robust tool for studying land use i land cover (LULC) changes. The present work deals with the assessment of land-cover changes in a Mediterranean country - Greece, where expected climate change impacts and desertification risk are stated to be severe. This work focused on the CORINE land cover inventory at a spatial resolution of 100 m from 1990 to 2018 and selected Landsat images at 30 m spatial resolution for 1990, 2000 and 2018. Results indicated that the dominant land-cover changes in Greece over the predefined 29-year period, are related to land transformation from Non-irrigated arable land to Irrigated areas, implying an intensification of agricultural practices. Natural grasslands lose a substantial part of their areas transforming into Sclerophyllus vegetation and Sparsely vegetated areas. Forests gain areas from Transitional woodland-shrub and Olive groves increase their extent indicating an overall transition to woody vegetation. Estimation of Vegetation Carbon Stocks indicated a moderate decrease in the 1990 decade followed by a significant increase up to 2012 and a slight decrease thereafter. Forests of all types are by far the most important carbon sinks. Possible implications of country's recent economic crisis were examined and results indicated that economic welfare of the country seems to favor certain land cover types such as Mixed Forests and Permanently Irrigated land, but also preservation of the Vegetation Carbon Stocks. (C) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
英文关键词	Land cover Land use LULC changes Vegetation carbon stocks Greece
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000660250500012
WOS类目	Environmental Sciences
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/351683
作者单位	[Gemitzi, Alexandra; Kratouna, Foteini] Democritus Univ Thrace, Fac Engn, Dept Environm Engn, V Sofias 12, Xanthi 67100, Greece; [Albarakat, Reyadh; Lakshmi, Venkat] Univ Virginia, Engn Syst & Environm, Charlottesville, VA 22904 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gemitzi, Alexandra,Albarakat, Reyadh,Kratouna, Foteini,et al. Land cover and vegetation carbon stock changes in Greece: A 29-year assessment based on CORINE and Landsat land cover data[J],2021,786.
APA	Gemitzi, Alexandra,Albarakat, Reyadh,Kratouna, Foteini,&Lakshmi, Venkat.(2021).Land cover and vegetation carbon stock changes in Greece: A 29-year assessment based on CORINE and Landsat land cover data.SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT,786.
MLA	Gemitzi, Alexandra,et al."Land cover and vegetation carbon stock changes in Greece: A 29-year assessment based on CORINE and Landsat land cover data".SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 786(2021).