Application of the Czech Methodology of Biogeographical Landscape Differentiation in Geobiocoenological Concept – Examples from Cuba, Tasmania and Yemen

Buček, Antonín; Habrová, Hana; Maděra, Petr; Král, Kamil; Modrý, Martin; Lacina, Jan; Pavliš, Jindřich

doi:10.1515/jlecol-2015-0014

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“…Net migration, calculated as the mean value for the period 1996-2007, is understood as a proxy of the quality of life (see, e.g., Navarro-Azorín and Artal-Tur, 2015). The coeffi cient of ecological stability expresses the ratio between environmentally stable and environmentally unstable land-use categories (see, e.g., Buček et al, 2015). This indicator refers to the year 2007.…”

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Structural Funding and Intrastate Regional Disparities in Post-Communist Countries

Novosák

Hájek

Horváth

et al. 2017

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The intent of this paper is to provide empirical evidence about associations between structural fund allocation in the Czech Republic's micro-regions for the programming period 2007 to 2013, and intrastate regional disparities by considering the three traditional pillars of sustainable development. The results have mixed evidence, both supporting and not supporting various associations. Economically disadvantaged micro-regions had less structural fund allocation in the economic pillar of sustainable development. To the contrary, socially disadvantaged micro-regions were allocated more structural funds in the social pillar of sustainable development. Therefore, a compensatory effect in sustainable development was observed between economic and social pillars. Results in the environmental pillar were insignifi cant. The results in this paper provide an ambivalent conclusion regarding the contention that spatial distribution of structural funding actually contributes to a reduction in intrastate regional disparities at the micro-regional level. However, micro regions with better economic conditions, e.g. agglomeration economies, better human capital and patent activities -received more structural funding in total.

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Structural Funding and Intrastate Regional Disparities in Post-Communist Countries

Novosák

Hájek

Horváth

et al. 2017

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“…There were no days with the zero daily flow from the SE stem indicating C3 type of photosynthesis in D. cinnabari although Brown and Mies (2012) reported that facultative Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM) might occur in this plant. Nevertheless, we realize, that to talk about CAM in D. cinnabari, synchronous photosynthetic measurements should be provided and longer (at least one year) period of Fig.…”

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“…The sample plant was growing in the open space on the limestone plateau, characterized by karstic features (Brown and Mies 2012) (Fig. S1).…”

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“…The arborescent monocot Dracaena cinnabari belongs to the dragon blood tree group and is the main endemic plant from plenty growing in Socotra. Belonging to the Africotropical biogeographical realm, the Somalian biogeographical province (Buček et al 2015;Udvardy 1975), this island features arid tropical climate strongly influenced by two annual monsoons. The summer south-west monsoon (May-September) brings hot and dry winds from Africa and the winter monsoon (October-January) with predominant north-east winds carries most rain falls (Culek et al 2006).…”

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Long-term in situ sap flow monitoring in a mature Dracaena cinnabari tree on Socotra

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Dracaena cinnabari is a relict of the remote Socotra Island (Yemen) where it grows at higher altitudes with the frequent occurrence of fogs. D. cinnabari as the only representative of the dragon tree group creates woodlands and forests on the Socotra Island. It is not clear what mechanisms allow this relict arborescent monocot to survive harsh climate and poor soil of karst rocks there. In this work, we conducted long-term sap flow monitoring in the stem and roots of the mature D. cinnabari plant during the driest period of year between two regular monsoons. We aimed to reveal plant responses to a range of environmental conditions and to understand mechanisms of drought survival by this woody monocot. Several following features of sap flow performance were found: high flow sectoriality in the stem and in roots corresponding to the intensity of insolation, free lateral flow, higher stem integrity compared to roots, internal storage replenishment from the fog followed by increased transpiration presumably from the refilled stem storage. Results indicate that in studying the sap flow dynamics in the mature D. cinnabari tree, plant water storage should be included in the analyses in addition to soil water availability and intensity of evaporating demands. The ability to replenish succulent woody organs from atmospheric water and to survive long periods of drought from the internal supply distinguishes the behavior of this short-rooted arborescent monocot from the known strategies of deep-rooted trees in arid areas.

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“…The advantage of TSES is that it addresses one of the key GI conceptsconnectivity. It is an ecological network (Buček et al, 2012), based on biogeographical landscape differentiation in geobiocoenological conception (Buček et al, 2015), which secures physical links among habitats, ensuring uninterrupted movement of organisms and is similar to other ecological networks in Europe, e.g. Germany (Jedicke, 1994), Slovakia (Topercer, 2013) or Netherlands (Lammers & Zadelhof, 1996).…”

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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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Application of the Czech Methodology of Biogeographical Landscape Differentiation in Geobiocoenological Concept – Examples from Cuba, Tasmania and Yemen

Cited by 8 publications

References 6 publications

Structural Funding and Intrastate Regional Disparities in Post-Communist Countries

Structural Funding and Intrastate Regional Disparities in Post-Communist Countries

Long-term in situ sap flow monitoring in a mature Dracaena cinnabari tree on Socotra

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

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