TY - CHAP AU - Manuel Pulido Fernández AU - Joaquín Francisco Lavado Contador AU - Susanne Schnabel AU - Álvaro Gómez Gutiérrez AU - Javier Lozano-Parra ED - Allan Sebata Y1 - 2017-12-27 PY - 2017 T1 - Changes in Land Management of Iberian Rangelands and Grasslands in the Last 60 Years and their Effect on Vegetation N2 - This book looks at vegetation changes across the world. The use of normalized difference vegetation index, CORINE Land Cover, geographical information systems and remote sensing to monitor vegetation changes is highlighted. Conversion of dense forests into agricultural land, grazing areas or settlements and land cover changes in a Miombo woodland are reported. The role of neotropical forests as carbon pool stores and a reservoir of global biodiversity is explored. Influence of climate on island forest vegetation types, structure and diversity is reported in detail. Restoration of a degraded wildlife corridor through re-establishing native vegetation in India is also documented. Finally, the role of apomixes, a form of asexual reproduction via seed, in propagation of neotropical plants is discussed. BT - Vegetation SP - Ch. 2 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.72490 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.72490 SN - 978-953-51-3830-3 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-26 ER -