Recent tree encroachment in abandoned lands – caused by rural exodus and the intensification of agriculture – resulted in a spread of woodlands.
The analysis of five main land use types with a geographic information system (GIS) revealed that the arid coastal landscape has been dramatically transformed during the past decades due to the increase of mass tourism and the intensification of agriculture, resulting in a large-scale destruction of the coastal scrub, the natural, endemic-rich vegetation.
The study area has supported important changes during the studied period with significant consequences for vegetation C stocks, mainly due to afforestation and intensification of agriculture, resulting in a total vegetation C stock of 156.08 Tg in 2007, with an increase of 17.24 Tg since 1956.
For the crops sector, this effectively means expansion and/or intensification of cultivation, resulting in an increased need for and a more efficient use of agricultural inputs, particularly mineral fertilizers.
Approximately 50% of all analyzed papers showed effects of agriculture intensification as a result of increases in the conversion of natural areas into agricultural crops on plant pollinator interactions.
Summarizing our results, we deduce that both the abandonment and intensification of larch grasslands result in a loss of plant diversity and a decrease in provided ecosystem services.
The further intensification of activities will result in significant additional costs.
It thus seems unlikely that further intensification of induction may result in major improvement of remission rate, as it did not change between three successive cohorts, but this issue is addressed in the recently completed ENSG5 study which compares standard dose of OPEC/OJEC with the rapid COJEC regimen (Pinkerton et al, 2000).
Intensification of statin therapy results in a rapid reduction in atherosclerotic inflammation: results of a multicenter fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography feasibility study.
Concern about the potential health efffects of climate change began in the mid-1980s, windicationsions that emission of greenhouse gases from human activities could influence the climate system and result in intensification of the greenhouse effect.
Intensification of the AG results in texture enhancement.
