Destruction of the Forest Habitat in the Tatra National Park, Slovakia

Kopecká, Monika

doi:10.5772/24106

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“…The current policies of developing tourist facilities in the Tatra National Park have led to substantial losses in biological diversity and to the disruption of natural processes (Crofts et al, 2005;Kopecka, 2011), although the highest priority according to the Slovakian Nature Conservation Law should be their protection. In many cases the relevant authorities (particularly in the process of Environmental Impact Assessment, EIA) fail to effectively prevent these losses and disruptions.…”

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Preferences of tourists with regard to changes of the landscape of the Tatra National Park in Slovakia

Getzner

Švajda

2015

Land Use Policy

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Preferences of tourists with regard to changes of the landscape of the Tatra National Park in Slovakia

Getzner

Švajda

2015

Land Use Policy

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“…In our study areas, the situation seems to be influenced mainly by human activity and inadequate forest management, which preferred monocultures of spruce based on non-autochthonous seeds. Furthermore, Kopecka (2011) noticed that the so-called natural Tatra forests (these forests were affected by human activity in the more distant past) before the disastrous windstorm of 2004 did not correspond to natural development at all: in species composition and structure, the forests more or less resembled economic forests. Fleischer et al (2009) expect that further forest development will be driven by a synergetic combination of negative factors and tendencies (impact of pollution, extremely warm weather, windstorms, insect attacks and fires).…”

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Land-cover change in the Tatra Mountains, with a particular focus on vegetation

Solár¹,

Solár²

2020

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This paper evaluates land-cover change in the high mountain landscapes of parts of the Tatra Mountains (Western Carpathians, Europe). As well as carrying out a basic analysis of land-cover changes, we compared how these changes related to several abiotic variables and socio-economic influences. We used a geographic information system to analyse aerial images from surveys made in 1955, 1986 and 2010. The areas studied have undergone a number of changes, due most importantly to the establishment of a national park, long-term forestry management, natural disturbances, land abandonment, and the development of tourism. With regard to changes in vegetation cover, it is debatable whether these are related to climate change or to land-use change. Our study revealed two main changes: coniferous forest disturbance, and the expansion of shrubs (Pinus mugo) into the alpine zone. We also observed a slight upward shift of vegetation boundaries for coniferous forest, shrubs and alpine meadows over a period of more than 50 years (1956 to 2010). If we take into consideration (1) that forest ecosystems (and the tree line) have been changed significantly by human influence, and (2) that windstorms provoking outbreaks of spruce bark beetle are not a new phenomenon but more or less periodical in the Tatra Mountains, our results cannot provide clear evidence that climate change is partly responsible for the shift to higher elevations of the boundaries of mountain vegetation.

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“…Our study area covers 3237 ha of the affected area and this accounts for almost 27% of the park's total area. This windstorm and consequent logging of damaged timber have radically changed the natural conditions for all ecosystem services [33].…”

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Mapping Cultural Ecosystem Services Enables Better Informed Nature Protection and Landscape Management

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Cultural ecosystem services (CES) have specific richness and diversity provision patterns related to particular landscape features and land cover forms. Studies of their spatial distribution, however, are quite rare in the Slovak Republic and surrounding countries. This paper links land cover information based on an ecosystem services (ES) matrix, field survey data and GIS method to assess CES supply in two selected Slovak regions. Our main focus is on the ecologically more valuable ‘hot-spots’ where socio-cultural values accumulate. We determined their spatial distribution, and our comparison with lower cultural value areas confirmed that mountainous landscapes have the highest capacity to provide CES. This especially applies to the landscapes under National Park protection. While Slovak forests, rocks and water areas also form essential ecosystems for overall CES provision, the lowest overall capacity is in areas with residential buildings, construction, industrial and other artificial habitats. Finally, a comparison of our results with the National Ecosystem Assessment indicates that our detailed CES assessment will be more effective in supporting future participatory planning and management processes.

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Destruction of the Forest Habitat in the Tatra National Park, Slovakia

Cited by 5 publications

References 18 publications

Preferences of tourists with regard to changes of the landscape of the Tatra National Park in Slovakia

Preferences of tourists with regard to changes of the landscape of the Tatra National Park in Slovakia

Land-cover change in the Tatra Mountains, with a particular focus on vegetation

Mapping Cultural Ecosystem Services Enables Better Informed Nature Protection and Landscape Management

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