Land use/land cover changes after the decline of mountain chalet farming in the Krkonoše and Hrubý Jeseník Mountains, Czechia, since the mid-20th century

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Výsledek na webu

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11629-024-9143-5" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11629-024-9143-5</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Land use/land cover changes after the decline of mountain chalet farming in the Krkonoše and Hrubý Jeseník Mountains, Czechia, since the mid-20th century

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Chalet farming, as a specific type of agricultural landscape management, has been established in many European mountain ranges, including the Krkonoše Mountains and the Hrubý Jeseník Mountains in Czechia. During the operation of such farming from 16/17th century till 1945, many changes in land use/land cover and landscape at all occurred, which are generally evaluated positively. Turbulent events including political, economic and social changes and the displacement of the German-speaking population associated with them in the mid-20th century rapidly ended this development, causing significant landscape changes, such as the abandonment of agricultural land and succession, afforestation, expansion of the alpine tree line, reduction of diversity. The aim of our study is to evaluate changes of land cover (forests, dwarf pine, grasslands, other areas) from 1936/1946 till 2021, secondary succession and driving forces of change for selected meadow enclaves in the Krkonoše Mountains and the Hrubý Jeseník Mountains after the decline of mountain chalet farming since the middle of 20th century. We used remote sensing methods (aerial imagery) and field research (dendrochronology and comparative photography) to detect the land use/land cover changes in the selected study areas in the Krkonoše Mountains and the Hrubý Jeseník Mountains. We documented the process of the succession, which occurred almost immediately after the end of farming, peaking about 10-20 years later, with an earlier start in the Hrubý Jeseník Mountains. The succession led to the significant change of land use/land cover and these processes were similar in both mountain ranges. The largest changes were a decrease in grasslands by 62%-64% and an increase in forest area by 33%-40% for both study areas. The abandonment of land is the main consequence of a crucial political driving forces (displacement of German-speaking population) in the Krkonoše Mountains and the Hrubý Jeseník Mountains.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Land use/land cover changes after the decline of mountain chalet farming in the Krkonoše and Hrubý Jeseník Mountains, Czechia, since the mid-20th century

Popis výsledku anglicky

Chalet farming, as a specific type of agricultural landscape management, has been established in many European mountain ranges, including the Krkonoše Mountains and the Hrubý Jeseník Mountains in Czechia. During the operation of such farming from 16/17th century till 1945, many changes in land use/land cover and landscape at all occurred, which are generally evaluated positively. Turbulent events including political, economic and social changes and the displacement of the German-speaking population associated with them in the mid-20th century rapidly ended this development, causing significant landscape changes, such as the abandonment of agricultural land and succession, afforestation, expansion of the alpine tree line, reduction of diversity. The aim of our study is to evaluate changes of land cover (forests, dwarf pine, grasslands, other areas) from 1936/1946 till 2021, secondary succession and driving forces of change for selected meadow enclaves in the Krkonoše Mountains and the Hrubý Jeseník Mountains after the decline of mountain chalet farming since the middle of 20th century. We used remote sensing methods (aerial imagery) and field research (dendrochronology and comparative photography) to detect the land use/land cover changes in the selected study areas in the Krkonoše Mountains and the Hrubý Jeseník Mountains. We documented the process of the succession, which occurred almost immediately after the end of farming, peaking about 10-20 years later, with an earlier start in the Hrubý Jeseník Mountains. The succession led to the significant change of land use/land cover and these processes were similar in both mountain ranges. The largest changes were a decrease in grasslands by 62%-64% and an increase in forest area by 33%-40% for both study areas. The abandonment of land is the main consequence of a crucial political driving forces (displacement of German-speaking population) in the Krkonoše Mountains and the Hrubý Jeseník Mountains.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Journal of Mountain Science

ISSN

1672-6316

e-ISSN

1993-0321

Svazek periodika

22

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4

Stát vydavatele periodika

CN - Čínská lidová republika

Počet stran výsledku

32

Strana od-do

1119-1150

Kód UT WoS článku

001473904400022

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105003114761