Comparison of the current state of non-forest woody vegetation in two contrasted case study areas in Central Europe

Demková, Katarína; Lipský, Zdeněk

doi:10.1515/mgr-2017-0003

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“…These formations create uniform landscape networks with low visual value and a low potential for use as a wild life habitat. Low shares of line form NFWV and natural habitats in agriculture landscape are considered as a negative factor (Salašová 2001;Demková & Lipský 2017). Contemporary share of NFWV is generally low, reaching 3 -10% on average (Insley 1988;Pucherová 2004;Kuczman 2014).…”

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“…The non-forest woody vegetation, as an important landscaping element with significant gene pool value, represents an old, oversized specimen of rare trees considered as elements of tree heritage (Morton 1998;Demková & Lipský 2017). In the lowland landscape of south-western Slovakia, woody species richness of Prunus genus in dispersed woody vegetation in the agriculture landscapes was surveyed (Baranec et al 2011).…”

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“…Notion is used mainly in forestry literature including Russian sources (Gemerský 1961;Varga et al 1991;Tutka 2010). Nonforest woody vegetation (NFWV) includes all spatial woody formations in agriculture landscape, meaning linear forms (windbreaks, infiltration belts, accompanying belts along water streams and roads, tree alleys), area forms (small forests, groves, game refuges), and group and solitaire trees in rural landscape Demková & Lipský 2017). …”

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Land use changes and development of the non-forest woody vegetation in the Danubian Lowland in Slovakia

Supuka

Šinka

2018

Central European Forestry Journal

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The aim of this paper is to assess the changes in the landscape structure of the Žitný Ostrov territory and in the woody species of the non-forest woody vegetation (NFWV) over the past 120 years. Within the assessed periods of 1892, 1949, 1969 and 2015, the shares of arable land increased by 17% while the ratio of the built-up areas with gardens increased by 3.7%. At the same time, natural habitats, grassland, waterlogged meadows and wetlands decreased by 26%. These changes, concerning small mosaic plots as well as large cultural blocks, were caused by the intensification of agriculture after 1948. Ecological stability and biodiversity of these areas has decreased. Thereafter 60 windbreaks were planted from 1951-1952 in an area of 30 ha. In total, 37 woody species were planted, of which 22 were alien species. After 25 years (in 1976), 19 of the same windbreaks were surveyed, observing 16 native and 12 alien woody species. During these periods, many rare alien and coniferous species died. In 2015, 13 windbreaks with 39 woody species were identified, both in the tree and the shrubby layer. The downside is that four of the long-time surviving species are invasive trees.

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Land use changes and development of the non-forest woody vegetation in the Danubian Lowland in Slovakia

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Šinka

2018

Central European Forestry Journal

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“…Therefore, at the stage of identifying training areas as well as during later checking, the aerial and satellite images were also analysed by a biologist expert for colours, patterns, objects etc., similar to the method of compiling the high-resolution ecosystem map for Hungary (Tanács et al, 2021), or other publications, e.g. Demková and Lipský (2017). It was especially useful in the case of pastures (complex grasslandshrubland patterns) and old-growth softwood riparian forests with non-continuous canopy.…”

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A GIS-based framework to determine spatially explicit priority categories for flood risk management intervention schemes

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Morva

Pirkhoffer

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Moravian Geographical Reports

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The necessity of plural valuation of costs for flood risk management is widely acknowledged, but practical case studies are still scarce. We developed a GIS-based plural valuation framework to determine spatially explicit priority categories for flood risk management intervention schemes on the Drava River, Southern Hungary. A conventional economic evaluation, including land market prices and additional costs due to legal conservation restrictions, was complemented by ecological valuation of vulnerability. The inclusion of ecological vulnerability significantly changed the proposed priority areas for flood risk management interventions: in this case, softwood riparian forests face far less threat, together with other Natura 2000 habitats, in comparison to unprotected wetlands and grasslands. This valuation framework also highlights priority habitats and areas for joint conservation and water management projects, utilising the synergies between several EU Directives as the Birds Directive, Habitats Directive, Flood Directive, and Water Framework Directive. Our framework is adaptable for the other floodplains along major or medium-sized European rivers, assuming that specific local settings are considered.

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“…Other key GI elements often present in the agricultural landscape are the strips of vegetation or grassland, hedgerows, alleys, forest patches, groups of trees or solitary trees. These small scale features can make a significant difference, for instance in the landscape fragmentation (Agger & Brandt, 1988;Demková & Lipský, 2017). They can serve as stepping stones, bio-corridors and small-scale bio-centres.…”

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Mapping Green Infrastructure Elements Based on Available Data, A Case Study of the Czech Republic

Skokanová

González

Slach

2020

Journal of Landscape Ecology

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The contribution of Green Infrastructure (GI) in vital areas such as regional development, climate change, agriculture, forestry and environmental protection is already acknowledged and listed as one of the priorities in several key EU policies, and is the basis for the EU Green Infrastructure Strategy. However, the concept is not yet fully integrated into actual planning strategies, in this respect the Czech Republic is no different. A major problem in doing so is a lack of guidelines/ how to identify and map GI using available sources and thus keeping costs down. The existing data sources for land cover or land use often do not fulfil the requirements in terms of thematic coverage, resolution or accuracy. In order to work around such limitations, we analyse the existing land use/land cover data in the Czech Republic from the GI perspective. Furthermore, we propose a GI mapping methodology based on the diagnosis of three mapping approaches at the regional level, grounded on the utilisation and processing of different data sets. We compared GI maps based on European data from CORINE Land Cover Database, Czech national database called Consolidated Layer of Ecosystems (CLE) and combination of Czech national and regional data and manual vectorization. Our results show that CORINE based GI map is suitable for transnational scale but unsuitable for regional scale. The CLE based GI map is good for both national and regional scale but its information on GI in urban areas is lacking. The detailed regional GI map is good for regional and to some degree even for local scale but its creation is time consuming. However, careful combination of existing national and regional data can provide good outcome in creating GI map usable for territorial planning.

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Comparison of the current state of non-forest woody vegetation in two contrasted case study areas in Central Europe

Abstract: Non-forest woody vegetation (NFWV), as a part of green infrastructure, has gained a great deal of attention

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Land use changes and development of the non-forest woody vegetation in the Danubian Lowland in Slovakia

Land use changes and development of the non-forest woody vegetation in the Danubian Lowland in Slovakia

A GIS-based framework to determine spatially explicit priority categories for flood risk management intervention schemes

Mapping Green Infrastructure Elements Based on Available Data, A Case Study of the Czech Republic

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