Zonal Concept: Landscape Level Parameters and Application
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43410%2F23%3A43924076" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43410/23:43924076 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.2478/jlecol-2023-0009" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.2478/jlecol-2023-0009</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jlecol-2023-0009" target="_blank" >10.2478/jlecol-2023-0009</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Zonal Concept: Landscape Level Parameters and Application
Original language description
Zonal concept is a traditional approach in land assessment. Although its principles have been known for over a hundred years, they have not yet been thoroughly evaluated using modern analytical approaches. Assessing the empirically established parameters for characterising a zonal site, establishing threshold values of significant environmental factors, along with assessing the applicability of the zonal concept, were the goals of this study. The data analysed were obtained from the robust and objective Czech National Forest Inventory database. Regression, indirect ordination, hierarchical clustering and spatial analyses of geo-information systems were used. The study revealed seven crucial environmental factors: Slope, Slope Height, Terrain Surface Texture, Negative Openness, Multi-Resolution Index of Valley Bottom Flatness, Soil Type and Soil Subtype. A graphical model of zonal/azonal sites was constructed based on calculated threshold values of the factors. This methodic approach introduces significant geomorphological information that are otherwise problematically detectable in field mapping. We suggest it is possible to use the zonal concept as a base layer for general landscape assessment. Zonal site classification can become a part of a precise land management practice, consisting of valuable empiricism of traditional landscape ecological classifications enriched by modelling in disturbance ekology and prediction of climate change effects.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10618 - Ecology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
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 Landscape Ecology
ISSN
1803-2427
e-ISSN
1805-4196
Volume of the periodical
16
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
26
Pages from-to
24-49
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85183087712