Long-term changes in water areas and wetlands in an intensively farmed landscape: A case study from the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00027073:_____/17:N0000098

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/euco-2017-0008" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/euco-2017-0008</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/euco-2017-0008" target="_blank" >10.1515/euco-2017-0008</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Long-term changes in water areas and wetlands in an intensively farmed landscape: A case study from the Czech Republic

Original language description

The landscape of the Czech Republic currently faces droughts that are caused by several factors. One of the reasons for drought is landscape development and land cover changes. Changes in water and wetland areas and streams were studied by comparing old military maps and the present state. Water and wetland areas in fertile lowlands significantly decreased over time; the landscape was continuously dried out with the aim of increasing agricultural and woody production. While water and wetland areas occupied nearly one-third of the study area (Nove Dvory and Zehusice micro-regions in Central Bohemia) at the end of the 18th century, the present share of these areas is only 3.5%. There was a decrease of approximately 10% in each period, and nearly all of these areas disappeared by the end of the 19th century. Water and wetland areas were changed primarily to arable land. The length of streams decreased by the end of the 19th century. Drainage and irrigation channels were built during the 20th century, and although they are only periodic or episodic streams, these channels increased the total length of streams.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10508 - Physical geography

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European Countryside

ISSN

1803-8417

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

9

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

132-144

UT code for WoS article

000408214400008

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85017358727