Land Use Changes in the Czech Republic 1845–2010

Bičı́k, Ivan; Kupková, Lucie; Jeleček, Leoš; Kabrda, Jan; Štych, Přemysl; Janoušek, Zbyněk; Winklerová, Jana

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“…1), Czech Republic. The area consists of 21 cadastral municipalities, with a total area of 113 km 2 . It is situated in the lowlands near the Elbe River that creates its northern border.…”

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Long term changes in water areas and wetlands in an intensively farmed landscape: A case study from the Czech Republic

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Demková

Weber

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European Countryside

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Abstract:The landscape of the Czech Republic currently faces droughts that are caused by several factors. One of the reasons for drought is landscape development and land cover changes. Changes in water and wetland areas and streams were studied by comparing old military maps and the present state. Water and wetland areas in fertile lowlands significantly decreased over time; the landscape was continuously dried out with the aim of increasing agricultural and woody production. While water and wetland areas occupied nearly one-third of the study area (Nové Dvory and Žehušice micro-regions in Central Bohemia) at the end of the 18 th century, the present share of these areas is only 3.5%. There was a decrease of approximately 10% in each period, and nearly all of these areas disappeared by the end of the 19 th century. Water and wetland areas were changed primarily to arable land. The length of streams decreased by the end of the 19 th century. Drainage and irrigation channels were built during the 20 th century, and although they are only periodic or episodic streams, these channels increased the total length of streams.Key words: streams, still waters, wetlands, land use changes, drought, central Europe Abstrakt: Krajina České republiky v současnosti čelí nebezpečí sucha, které je způsobeno mnoha faktory. Mezi ně patří změny krajiny a krajinného pokryvu. V článku jsou sledovány změny vodních a mokřadních ploch a délky vodních toků na podkladě starých vojenských mapování a současného stavu. Vodní a mokřadní plochy v nížinách zásadně ubyly a krajina byla vysušována s cílem zvýšit zemědělskou a lesnickou produkci. Zatímco na konci 18. století vodní a mokřadní plochy zaujímaly skoro třetinu sledovaného území Novodvorska a Žehušicka ve středních Čechách, v současnosti je to jen 3,5 %. V každé ze sledovaných period ubylo přibližně 10 % jejich rozlohy, významný úbytek těchto ploch v krajině tak nastal již v 19. století. Vodní a mokřadní plochy byly změněny převážně na ornou půdu. Délka vodních toků poklesla zejména v průběhu 19. století. Současná data ukazují nárůst jejich délky, který je ale způsoben budováním zavodňovacích a odvodňovacích kanálů, jejichž délka je také započítána do celkové délky vodních toků, byť nejsou celoročně protékány vodou.

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“…1), Czech Republic. The area consists of 21 cadastral municipalities, with a total area of 113 km 2 . It is situated in the lowlands near the Elbe River that creates its northern border.…”

Section: Study Areamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One way to study these changes is to use historical and actual statistical data about land use. These data for the Czech Republic are available for cadastral municipalities from 1845 to the present day (Bičík et al, 2010;Šťastná et al, 2015). The use of statistical data has two main disadvantages.…”

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Long term changes in water areas and wetlands in an intensively farmed landscape: A case study from the Czech Republic

Šantrůčková

Demková

Weber

et al. 2017

European Countryside

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“…Considering that used technology of data obtaining guarantees standard error in the range of 1%, such inaccuracy can be neglected. It is the next modification of the algorithm of Bičik et al (2015) that adapts the results' domain to the linear scale.…”

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Level of Spatial Differentiation of Anthropogenic Impact in Małopolska

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Detailed spatial analysis of area coverage was performed in the present paper, which allowed to determine numerous derivative parameters connected with human activity as well as natural processes. Data from Database of Topographic Objects in nominal scale 1:10 000 (in short: BDOT10k) in GML format were used as source materials and processing of the source data to object-relational form of SpatialLite database was performed. Methods of areas classification and valorization on the basis of land coverage diversity were used in the research after using modification of classes selection to BDOT10k. Borders of spatial objects had geo-referential precision to 3 m and were not subjected to generalization process. It provided possibility to achieve high degree of credibility of calculated parameters. Materials that concern ecological corridors were obtained from the General Directorate for Environmental Protection by means of WFS service. Geoprocessing methods and spatial connections in GIS heterogenic systems were used to perform analyses. The effects of all the conducted analyses allowed to identify problem fields where areas of ecological corridors became strongly anthropogenized. The results were presented as multilayered compositions and cartograms. The research area covered 15,200 km 2 and ranged the territory of Małopolska province.

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“…These records are based on results of the mapping of stable cadastres (over the period 1826-1843) at the scale 1:2880 (Bičík et al 2010). For forests, they list areas of high forests (divided into broadleaved, coniferous and mixed), coppice woods, glades, shrublands, landscape parks and burnt-over areas.…”

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Predicted occurrence of ancient coppice woodlands in the Czech Republic

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Coppicing started in the Neolithic period and has been practiced throughout European history. This traditional silvicultural system was abandoned in many European countries during the 20 th century. The Czech Republic now has a very low proportion of coppice woods (CW), as more than 1000 km 2 CW were converted into high forests after World War II. Nevertheless, many CW were maintained as stored coppices, which could be the last remainders of ancient coppice woods (ACW) in the Czech Republic. Knowledge of area and distribution of stored coppices is currently missing in the Czech Republic, because they are recorded as high forests in forest management plans. Many stored forests are currently approaching the maturity age, with a high risk that these last ACW remainders will be lost; therefore, an inventory of ancient coppice woods is necessary. In our study, we develop an index of likelihood of coppice occurrence (COP) based on the distribution of habitats favourable for coppices, as well as on past and current occurrence of CW in the Czech Republic from historical maps. COP index values were then used to generate a map showing the relative likelihoods of occurrence of ACW, which can serve as a baseline to support the compilation of an ACW inventory and their mapping in the field. Our results can help prioritize forest areas to be inventoried based on their higher probabilities of ACW occurrence.

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Land Use Changes in the Czech Republic 1845–2010

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Long term changes in water areas and wetlands in an intensively farmed landscape: A case study from the Czech Republic

Long term changes in water areas and wetlands in an intensively farmed landscape: A case study from the Czech Republic

Level of Spatial Differentiation of Anthropogenic Impact in Małopolska

Predicted occurrence of ancient coppice woodlands in the Czech Republic

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