Ecological Status of Floodplains and their Potential to Carbon Storage: Case Study from Three Watersheds in the South Moravian Region, Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14310/23:00133616 RIV/61989592:15310/23:73621465

Result on the web

<a href="https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/jlecol-2023-0019" target="_blank" >https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/jlecol-2023-0019</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jlecol-2023-0019" target="_blank" >10.2478/jlecol-2023-0019</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Ecological Status of Floodplains and their Potential to Carbon Storage: Case Study from Three Watersheds in the South Moravian Region, Czech Republic

Original language description

Floodplains are important ecosystems that contribute to the ecological stability of the landscape. A number of ecosystem functions and services are significantly influenced by ecological aspects of floodplain habitats. This article focuses on the ecological quality and estimated amount of carbon stored in the biomass of habitats located in the studied watersheds, with an emphasis on floodplains. The habitats and their ecological quality were determined and assessed using the Biotope Valuation Method (BVM), an expert method for evaluating habitat (biotope) types based on eight ecological characteristics, mainly concerning various aspects of their biodiversity and vulnerability. The objective of this study is to compare the resulting assessments of habitats located in floodplains with assessments of habitats situated in the surrounding landscape. The study was carried out on three selected small stream watersheds in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic, which differ from each other in terms of the predominant land use and the overall level of anthropogenic pressure on the landscape. The results indicate that floodplains have a higher ecological value compared to the surrounding landscape, except for floodplains in areas with intensive agriculture. The ability of floodplains to store carbon in biomass turned out to be higher in the watershed with a higher percentage of tree stands, where woody plants store significantly more carbon in the biomass compared to other types of vegetation. It has been shown that human pressure on floodplains and land use significantly affects ecosystem functions and services. In addition to the intensity of agriculture, these were, in particular, pressures from an expansion of built-up areas and infrastructure developments, and forest management. In this study, forest stands in floodplain were more stable and had a more beneficial species composition than forests in the surrounding landscape.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

<a href="/en/project/SS05010134" target="_blank" >SS05010134: Importance and protection of floodplains as an environment for the fulfillment of the landscape ecostabilisation function</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2023

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

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

38

Pages from-to

94-131

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85181821473