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The present study focuses on the transformations of a typical Mediterraneanagroforestry landscape of southern Italy (high Agri Valley – Basilicataregion) that occurred over 24 years. In this period, the valuable agriculturaland natural areas that compose such a landscape were subjected to intensiveindustry-related activities linked to the exploitation of the largestEuropean onshore oil reservoir. Landsat imagery acquired in 1985 and 2009were used to detect changes in forest areas and major land use trajectories.Landscape metrics indicators were adopted to characterize landscapestructure and evolution of both the complex ecomosaic (14 land coverclasses) and the forest/non-forest arrangement. Our results indicate a netincrease of 11% of forest areas between 1985 and 2009. The major changesconcern increase of all forest covers at the expense of pastures andgrasses, enlargement of riparian vegetation, and expansion of artificial areas.The observed expansion of forests was accompanied by a decrease of thefragmentation levels likely due to the reduction of small glades that breakforest homogeneity and to the recolonization of herbaceous areas. Overall,we observe an evolution towards a more stable configuration depicting asatisfactory picture of vegetation health

Land cover changes and forest landscape evolution (1985–2009) in a typical Mediterranean agroforestry system (high Agri Valley)