What are the transitions of woodlands at the landscape level? Change trajectories of forest, non-forest and reclamation woody vegetation elements in a mining landscape in North-western Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41320/15:67146 RIV/60460709:41330/15:67146 RIV/00216208:11310/15:10317876

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2015.02.003" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2015.02.003</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2015.02.003" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.apgeog.2015.02.003</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

What are the transitions of woodlands at the landscape level? Change trajectories of forest, non-forest and reclamation woody vegetation elements in a mining landscape in North-western Czech Republic

Original language description

This study answers the following research questions: 1) What are the change trajectories of woody vegetation elements at the landscape level? 2) What are the differences in change trajectories amongst the various categories of forest, non-forest and reclamation woody vegetation? 3) How do the change trajectories differ in mining and non-mining landscapes? The study area, measuring 209,6 km2, is located in the north-western part of the Czech Republic and may be broken down into 76,8 km2 of mining landscape and 132,8 km2 of non-mining landscape. Brown coal mining began in this region during the second half of the 18th century and led to the radical transformation of the landscape, including woodlands, during the second half of the 20th century. The source data for this study was obtained from the original stable cadastre maps (1842) and the landscape field mapping performed in 2010. The various woody vegetation elements and land use/cover categories were identified. GIS symmetrical difference tool was subsequently used to perform an overlay analysis for the individual woody vegetation elements in order to study the change trajectories and to obtain information about the woodlands that have remained unchanged (continuous), the ones that have disappeared (extinct), and the ones that have newly appeared in the landscape (recent). Different categories of woodlands (forest, non-forest, and reclamation woody vegetation elements) exhibit various change dynamics due to their different structure and the functions they serve. At the most basic level, there has been an overall increase in the occurrence of woodlands in the studied areas. Mining leads to a direct decrease in the area of woodlands; conversely, the spontaneous succession of vegetation resulting from agricultural extensification and forest reclamation facilitates woodland recovery. Forest reclamation and reforestation are essential on order to ensure the time continuity of woodlands in both types of landscape.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

DO - Protection of landscape

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Applied Geography

ISSN

0143-6228

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

58

Issue of the periodical within the volume

March

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

206-216

UT code for WoS article

000351790600019

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84923381589