Landscape Metrics as a Tool for Evaluation Landscape Structure – Case Study Hustopeče

The contribution presents the method of evaluation of rural landscape development in Hustopece microregion by means of the analysis of landscape structure. Based on the computation of the values of landscape ecological indexes, development and typical and specific features in selected time horizons...

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Published in:European countryside 2013, Vol.5 (1), p.52-70
Main Authors: Tlapáková, Lenka, Stejskalová, Dagmar, Karásek, Petr, Podhrázská, Jana
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
aerial photographs
Aerial photography
Agricultural land
Agricultural production
Environmental economics
Farming
Geographic information systems
gis
land cover
Land use
Landscape
Landscape ecology
landscape structure
Mapping
metric analyses
Rural development
stable cadastre
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Summary:The contribution presents the method of evaluation of rural landscape development in Hustopece microregion by means of the analysis of landscape structure. Based on the computation of the values of landscape ecological indexes, development and typical and specific features in selected time horizons are interpreted. The time of the stable cadastre mapping (1825) was chosen as the initial period, other periods were the actual situation at present (2006) and the time between these two periods (the sixties of the 20th century). It is an agricultural landscape in southern Moravia used for intensive farming. Analysis results illustrate long-term continuing landscape utilization for agricultural production. All evaluative indexes indicate reduction of number of patches and edge effect, enlarging of patch area and, consequently, increasing of geometrical extent and coarse-grained landscape pattern. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:1803-8417
1803-8417
DOI:10.2478/euco-2013-0004