Using fractal analysis in modeling the dynamics of forest areas and economic impact assessment: Maramureș County, Romania, as a case study

Radu Daniel Pintilii; Ion Andronache; Daniel Constantin Diaconu; Răzvan Cătălin Dobrea; Martina Zeleňáková; Rasmus Fensholt; Daniel Peptenatu; Cristian Constantin Drăghici; Ana Maria Ciobotaru

doi:10.3390/f8010025

Using fractal analysis in modeling the dynamics of forest areas and economic impact assessment: Maramureș County, Romania, as a case study

Radu Daniel Pintilii, Ion Andronache, Daniel Constantin Diaconu^*, Răzvan Cătălin Dobrea, Martina Zeleňáková, Rasmus Fensholt, Daniel Peptenatu, Cristian Constantin Drăghici, Ana Maria Ciobotaru

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Abstract

This study uses fractal analysis to quantify the spatial changes of forest resources caused by an increase of deforested areas. The method introduced contributes to the evaluation of forest resources being under significant pressure from anthropogenic activities. The pressure on the forest resources has been analyzed for Maramures, County, one of the most deforested counties in Romania. In order to evaluate this, the deforested areas were calculated for the period of 2001-2014, by using the Global Forest Change 2000-2014 database. The Fractal Fragmentation Index (FFI) and Fixed Grid 2D Lacunarity (FG2DL) were used to quantify the degree of fragmentation and dispersion of the forested areas, and thereby the extent to which a forest area is affected by deforestation. The process of quantifying the pressure on forested areas included the creation of a database for the period of 2000-2014 containing economic activities (turnover) related to woody recourses, important indicators of forest exploitation. Taken together, the results obtained indicate a dramatic increase in deforested areas (over 19,122 ha in total for the period of analysis), in Maramures, County.

Original language	English
Article number	25
Journal	Forests
Volume	8
Issue number	1
Number of pages	14
ISSN	1999-4907
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/f8010025
Publication status	Published - 2017

Keywords

Deforested areas
Economic pressure
Forest resources
Fractal analysis
Lacunarity
Territorial management

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Using fractal analysis in modeling the dynamics of forest areas and economic impact assessment : Maramureș County, Romania, as a case study. / Pintilii, Radu Daniel; Andronache, Ion; Diaconu, Daniel Constantin; Dobrea, Răzvan Cătălin; Zeleňáková, Martina; Fensholt, Rasmus; Peptenatu, Daniel; Drăghici, Cristian Constantin; Ciobotaru, Ana Maria.

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Pintilii, Radu Daniel ; Andronache, Ion ; Diaconu, Daniel Constantin ; Dobrea, Răzvan Cătălin ; Zeleňáková, Martina ; Fensholt, Rasmus ; Peptenatu, Daniel ; Drăghici, Cristian Constantin ; Ciobotaru, Ana Maria. / Using fractal analysis in modeling the dynamics of forest areas and economic impact assessment : Maramureș County, Romania, as a case study. In: Forests. 2017 ; Vol. 8, No. 1.

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