Land use/land cover changes after the decline of mountain chalet farming in the Krkonoše and Hrubý Jeseník Mountains, Czechia, since the mid-20th century
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=dFj.ip-q3b" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=dFj.ip-q3b</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11629-024-9143-5" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11629-024-9143-5</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Land use/land cover changes after the decline of mountain chalet farming in the Krkonoše and Hrubý Jeseník Mountains, Czechia, since the mid-20th century
Original language description
Chalet farming, as a specific type of agricultural landscape management, has been established in many European mountain ranges, including the Krkonoše Mountains and the Hrubý Jeseník Mountains in Czechia. During the operation of such farming from 16/17th century till 1945, many changes in land use/land cover and landscape at all occurred, which are generally evaluated positively. Turbulent events including political, economic and social changes and the displacement of the German-speaking population associated with them in the mid-20th century rapidly ended this development, causing significant landscape changes, such as the abandonment of agricultural land and succession, afforestation, expansion of the alpine tree line, reduction of diversity. The aim of our study is to evaluate changes of land cover (forests, dwarf pine, grasslands, other areas) from 1936/1946 till 2021, secondary succession and driving forces of change for selected meadow enclaves in the Krkonoše Mountains and the Hrubý Jeseník Mountains after the decline of mountain chalet farming since the middle of 20th century. We used remote sensing methods (aerial imagery) and field research (dendrochronology and comparative photography) to detect the land use/land cover changes in the selected study areas in the Krkonoše Mountains and the Hrubý Jeseník Mountains. We documented the process of the succession, which occurred almost immediately after the end of farming, peaking about 10-20 years later, with an earlier start in the Hrubý Jeseník Mountains. The succession led to the significant change of land use/land cover and these processes were similar in both mountain ranges. The largest changes were a decrease in grasslands by 62%-64% and an increase in forest area by 33%-40% for both study areas. The abandonment of land is the main consequence of a crucial political driving forces (displacement of German-speaking population) in the Krkonoše Mountains and the Hrubý Jeseník Mountains.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50701 - Cultural and economic geography
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Mountain Science
ISSN
1672-6316
e-ISSN
1993-0321
Volume of the periodical
22
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
CN - CHINA
Number of pages
32
Pages from-to
1119-1150
UT code for WoS article
001473904400022
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105003114761