Currently, land cover changes occur in wood-pastures all over Europe driven by abandonment of traditional farming, as well as by management and policy changes. Based on reviewing of official documents, semi-structured interviews and one case study we examined how policies and governance settings for mountain wood-pastures have led to forest cover loss in Romania. In general, wood-pastures are formal agricultural land-use areas subjected to both agriculture and forest policies. A dense tree cover and less strict forestry rules than those for formal forests contributed to the increased vulnerability of mountain wood-pastures towards tree cover loss. Additionally, under the European agricultural regulations, areas covered by trees and shrubs are not subsidized, likely leading to tree cover loss resulting from the clearing of these areas. This paper contributes to the larger discussion about widespread post-communist land cover changes in Europe, by emphasizing the magnitude of this phenomenon in mountain wood-pastures in Romania.

当前，由于放弃了传统耕作以及管理和政策的改变，整个欧洲的草场发生了土地覆盖变化。在审查官方文件，半结构化访谈和一个案例研究的基础上，我们研究了罗马尼亚山区森林的政策和治理环境如何导致森林覆盖率下降。一般而言，牧草是受到农业和森林政策双重管制的正式农业土地利用区。茂密的树木遮盖物和不如正式森林的林业规则不严密的森林，导致山木草种更易遭受树木遮盖物的破坏。另外，根据欧洲农业法规，树木和灌木覆盖的区域没有得到补贴，这可能导致因清除这些区域而造成树木覆盖率的损失。