Landscape Changes Mapping: Central Part of Ostrava-Karviná Mining District, Czech Republic

Popelková, Renata; Mulková, Monika

doi:10.4113/jom.2011.1165

Cited by 8 publications

(5 citation statements)

References 10 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…To represent LULC categories and processes and the intensity of LULC changes we chose area symbols (Popelková & Mulková, 2011). For LULC categories we used a combination of colours and hatching, with basic colour hues based on LULC classes, and colours of hatching logically following the gradient of categories (e.g.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Confluence of the Morava and Dyje Rivers: a century of landscape changes in maps

Miklín

Hrádecký

2015

Journal of Maps

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The area of the Morava and Dyje Rivers confluence is one of the most biologically diverse localities in the Czech Republic, recognised under many international forms of nature protection. In this paper we analyse and present land use/land cover (LULC) changes that took place over the last century. Using aerial photographs from the years 1938, 1953, 1976 and 2009, we differentiate 24 categories of LULC with a special focus on forest management. The most important detected changes are (i) closure of open/structured woodlands, (ii) change from an agricultural mosaic into large-field arable land, (iii) regulation of water courses, (iv) decrease in grassland area and (v) increase in forest logging intensity. LULC trends in this area differ significantly from the general LULC development within the Czech Republic. The results are presented in six map sheets showing LULC in (a-d) the studied years, (e) processes of LULC changes and (f) LULC change intensity. The thematic maps are accompanied by aerial photographs selected to show characteristic features of landscape structure in a certain period and by graphs including those visualising landscape metrics. ARTICLE HISTORY

show abstract

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Confluence of the Morava and Dyje Rivers: a century of landscape changes in maps

Miklín

Hrádecký

2015

Journal of Maps

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Often, the Corine Land Cover model is used as the source of land cover data. It served as research material for an analysis of landscape change in the urban area of the Ostrava and Karvina regions in Czechia [24,25] as well as the Álora region in Spain [20]. Despite numerous studies on land use change, and thus landscape change in rural areas as well [26], the topic is still scientifically attractive and constitutes a research gap due to the continuity and dynamics of these changes.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Land Cover Change and Landscape Transformations (2000–2018) in the Rural Municipalities of the Upper Silesia-Zagłębie Metropolis

Pukowiec-Kurda

Vavrouchová

2020

Sustainability

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Dynamic changes in the landscape have been observed in recent years. They are particularly visible in areas with a high degree of anthropopressure. An example of such areas is metropolitan regions and their immediate rural surroundings. The purpose of this article is to identify changes in land cover in the rural municipalities within metropolises and detect the processes of landscape transformation in rural areas, which are extremely sensitive to anthropopressure. The dynamics of land cover changes in the years 2000–2018 were determined using a change index (ChI), and their directions were determined using the indicator of changes in types of land cover. Corine Land Cover for level 2 groups (1.1–4.2) was used as research material, and the Upper Silesia-Zagłębie Metropolis was selected as the model area. The greatest changes in the landscape were observed in built-up areas, industrial areas, meadows and mining areas. This is due to the disappearance of the mining industry that was traditional for this region and the ongoing suburbanization process, as well as the re-industrialization of modern industry and the abandonment of arable land in rural areas.

show abstract

“…In the temperate zone, changes in forest areas in mountain areas were historically connected with sheep grazing and pastoral and agricultural purposes [6][7][8][9]. Investigations into the changes in forest ranges have begun within the past 40 years [10][11][12]. In many papers, forest transformation is considered to be a consequence of land use at the beginning of the seventeenth century.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Human Impact on Changes in the Forest Range of the Silesian Beskids (Western Carpathians)

Sobala

Rahmonov

2020

Resources

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Changes in forest range are caused by human activity in many regions of the world. The aim of this paper is an attempt to determine the impact of pastoral and forest management on changes in forest cover and their fragmentation in the Silesian Beskids (southern Poland) in 1848–2015. Historical maps and landscape metrics were used to study changes in forest cover. Using a digital map of forests, analyses of the distribution of forest communities, site types and their condition were conducted. Since 1848 the forest area has increased by 11.8%, while the area of forest core zones has increased by 16.2%, accompanied by a 4.5% reduction in the forest’s internal buffer zone. From the mid-nineteenth century, the forest range has been systematically growing from 82.1 to 93.9% because of the pastureland abandonment and forest regeneration, despite temporary logging resulting in forest fragmentation. Minor changes in core area index (CAI) from 80.41 to 87.55 indicate that pastoral economy did not result in considerable fragmentation of forests. The impact of forest management was greater as the sites characterised by natural condition occupy only 28% of the forest land and anthropogenically transformed ones dominate occupying over 50%. An artificial spruce monoculture was died-off and large felling areas were created at the beginning of the twenty-first century covering almost 40% of the study area.

show abstract

Landscape Changes Mapping: Central Part of Ostrava-Karviná Mining District, Czech Republic

Cited by 8 publications

References 10 publications

Confluence of the Morava and Dyje Rivers: a century of landscape changes in maps

Confluence of the Morava and Dyje Rivers: a century of landscape changes in maps

Land Cover Change and Landscape Transformations (2000–2018) in the Rural Municipalities of the Upper Silesia-Zagłębie Metropolis

The Human Impact on Changes in the Forest Range of the Silesian Beskids (Western Carpathians)

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About