Cross-Border Comparison of Non-Forest Woody Vegetation in the White Carpathians (Central Europe) over Last 65 Years

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Alternative codes found

RIV/86652079:_____/19:00507692 RIV/00027073:_____/19:N0000082

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciendo.com/article/10.2478/jlecol-2019-0010" target="_blank" >https://www.sciendo.com/article/10.2478/jlecol-2019-0010</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jlecol-2019-0010" target="_blank" >10.2478/jlecol-2019-0010</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Cross-Border Comparison of Non-Forest Woody Vegetation in the White Carpathians (Central Europe) over Last 65 Years

Original language description

Landscape structure is determined by human activities and natural processes. Despite both influences are described in many studies, there remains still question, how the landscape structure reflects the individual socio-economic predictors. To answer this question we compared landscape structure, with emphasis on non-forest woody vegetation, of two states, however, with common socio-economic and political history. Non-forest woody vegetation represents characteristic feature in rural landscape, which increases water retention, biodiversity and bio-migration using green structures. In our study we supposed, that non-forest woody vegetation will have high sensitivity to societal changes and nature conservation measures. On an example of border region in former Czechoslovakia we compared three classes of non-forest woody vegetation (solitaires, patches and linear elements) in three time horizons (1950, 1986, 2011). The most significant differences in spatial structure of non-forest woody vegetation between countries were in the number and area of solitaires, which decreased during the entire period. However, the largest solitaire decrease was in 1950-1986, mainly in correspondence with socialist collective farming. Moreover, the decrease was higher in the Slovak part compared to the Czech part. The primary reason for this was the removal of non-forest woody vegetation on one side and the joining crowns into bigger patches on the other side. The current trend of increasing area of patch and linear elements is related to natural succession. We assume that the main drivers of different development in non-forest woody vegetation in the border region after the split of Czechoslovakia were different management measures applied in nature and landscape conservation and social development. © 2019 Katarína Demková et al., published by Sciendo 2019.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Journal of Landscape Ecology

ISSN

1803-2427

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

64-78

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85069764802