Land-cover changes in relationship to environmental factors in the Znojmo and Třebíč districts, Czech Republic

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Land-cover changes in relationship to environmental factors in the Znojmo and Třebíč districts, Czech Republic

Original language description

The study aims to contribute to the understanding of the influence of selected environmental factors in the dynamic of landscape change in the Czech Republic: 1) to detect land use changes between 1986-2013 along altitudinal gradients which are geographically defined by two neighbouring Czech districts (Třebíč and Znojmo), and 2) to test if there is a relationship between the spatial distribution of main changes and selected environmental factors. Satellite Landsat TM/ETM scenes of 1986, 1994, 2002 and 2013 were used to define land cover categories (i.e. arable lands, grasslands, coniferous forest, deciduous forest, mixed forest, urban areas and inland water). The distribution of changes in land-cover was explored along slope gradients, aspect, elevation, topographic wetness index (TWI) and the less-favoured areas (LFA). Only a limited proportion of landscape changes were dependent on environmental factors in the study area. During the observed period 1994-2013 there was a decrease in arable land and an increase of grass-land, mainly in the LFA zone. The terrain’s slope was a dominating factor in causing landscape changes. The influence of TWI values was the most significant in permanent arable land in Znojmo and in the tran-sition of grassland to arable land. There was an increasing trend in annual average temperatures and in the sum of solar radiation in the study area.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

EH - Ecology - communities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/LO1415" target="_blank" >LO1415: CzechGlobe 2020 – Development of the Centre of Global Climate Change Impacts Studies</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

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

Book/collection name

Global Change & Ecosystems

ISBN

978-80-87902-17-2

Number of pages of the result

10

Pages from-to

95-104

Number of pages of the book

160

Publisher name

Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v

Place of publication

Brno

UT code for WoS chapter

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