Reporting land degradation sensitivity through multiple indicators: Does scale matter?
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F86652079%3A_____%2F21%3A00542635" target="_blank" >RIV/86652079:_____/21:00542635 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X21002259?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X21002259?via%3Dihub</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107560" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107560</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Reporting land degradation sensitivity through multiple indicators: Does scale matter?
Original language description
This work provides a multi-scale, multi-temporal assessment of the robustness of 6 indicators of land degradation aggregated at various spatial domains relevant to environmental reporting. Based on the Environmentally Sensitive Area (ESA) approach widely used for environmental reporting of land degradation in Europe we tested six indicators including (i) the average ESA score, (ii) the maximum ESA score, (iii) the coefficient of variation in the ESA scores, (iv) the normalized range in the ESA scores, as well as the extent of (v) 'fragile' and (vi) 'critical' areas based on a standard land classification developed on behalf of the ESA framework. Statistical robustness and intrinsic stability of these indicators were verified at six spatial domains (administrative regions, provinces, elevation belts, homogeneous economic districts, rural districts, municipalities) separately for three time points (early-1960s, early-1990s, and early-2010s). Results of a mixed parametric/non-parametric correlation analysis indicate that pair-wise relationships between indicators were mostly linear. A Principal Component Analysis identified two non-redundant dimensions associated with the average level of land degradation sensitivity and its intrinsic variability over space, indicators resulted to be associated exclusively with one of these two dimensions for all study years. Average level of sensitivity and variability over space provide, together, a comprehensive and statistically robust assessment of land degradation at vastly different planning levels, irrespective of the territorial domain adopted for environmental reporting.
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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
10619 - Biodiversity conservation
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ecological Indicators
ISSN
1470-160X
e-ISSN
1872-7034
Volume of the periodical
125
Issue of the periodical within the volume
JUN
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
6
Pages from-to
107560
UT code for WoS article
000636844800003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85102775921