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Table 4 Settlement profiles with a short description of the most important trends

From: Factors of land abandonment in mountainous Mediterranean areas: the case of Montenegrin settlements

Cluster name

Settlements

Description

Urbanised

Luge

Much more houses, more small gardens and fruit trees, much less cropland

Intensified

Vuksanlekići

Much more vineyards, some more houses, much less grassland

Extensified

Bosača—Trubina—Praćevac—Zagorje—Oblatno—Orahovo—Trabojin

Little less number of houses, often with smaller gardens, much less cropland, more meadows and fruit trees

Overgrown

Mala Crna Gora—Orah—Petrov Do

Much less houses and cultivation, more bushy areas, some more forest

Forested

Gornji Brčeli—Godinje

Less houses and cultivation, less grass land, much more bushy area and especially recent forest