Impacts of Land Use Change on Landscape Structure and Ecosystem Services at Local Scale: A Case Study in Central Portugal

Nunes, Adélia; Ornelas, Alexandre; Vieira, Pedro; Dias, Ângela; Martins, Bruno

Impacts of Land Use Change on Landscape Structure and Ecosystem Services at Local Scale: A Case Study in Central Portugal

Quaestiones Geographicae

Volume 42 (2023): Issue 1 (March 2023)

By:

Adélia Nunes

, Alexandre Ornelas

, Pedro Vieira

, Ângela Dias

and Bruno Martins

Open Access

|Dec 2022

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