ИСТИНА

Land use/ cover change is a complex process, driven by both natural and anthropogenic forces. Fifteen years ago tranformation of Russian agriculture has been started. It has brought changes in land use and land cover: in some regions, agricultural lands were dramatically impacted by changed management practices, resulted in accelerating erosion and reduced biodiversity, abandoment of many fields. The agrolandscapes’ applications were done at macroregional, regional and local scales on the base of cartographic, remote and in-field data.