Methodology for mapping non-forest wood elements using historic cadastral maps and aerial photographs as a basis for management

Modelling of Climate Conditions in Forest Vegetation Zones as a Support Tool for Forest Management Strategy in European Beech Dominated Forests

“…Cadasters are historic landscape units, originally established to document land tenure and estates, and as such they are not homogeneous in their natural conditions. Nevertheless, on the regional scale (all of the Czech Republic), the cadaster polygons capture the heterogeneity of the natural conditions in the whole country, because the original cadaster system, in existence without many changes since the 18th century, used natural boundaries such as streams, forest edges, and major geomorphological formations in the landscape to delineate its units [68]. The biogeographical model of changes to climatic conditions in the vegetation zones is a suite of specific software applications (FORTRAN programming language, IBM, New York, NY, USA) and a GIS application of Esri products (ArcGIS, Prague, Czech Republic).…”

Comparison of the current state of non-forest woody vegetation in two contrasted case study areas in Central Europe

“…2) were measured using the ArcGIS extensions Patch Analyst 5.1 (Rempel et al, 2012) and V-LATE 2.0 beta (Lang and Tiede, 2003). Such metrics have been widely used in landscape ecology as indicators of landscape heterogeneity, connectivity or fragmentation (Botequilha-Leitão et al, 2006;Skaloš and Engstová, 2010;Mallinis et al, 2011).…”

“…On the other hand, the relative length indicates a higher connectivity of linear vegetation in KH. Skaloš and Engstová (2010) also compared patch density of NFWV and the relative length of tree alleys between two different study areas and concluded that the lowland study site had higher values of both metrics (relative length of tree alleys 1.8 km/km 2 ; patch density 86 No/km 2 ) than the upland study site (relative length of tree alleys 0.5 km/km 2 ; patch density 11 No/km 2 ). In comparison, however, NFWV in their study also comprises NFWV inside the village.…”

“…An exception is Great Britain where a regular monitoring of hedgerows is provided by the Countryside Survey (1990Survey ( , 2000Survey ( , 2007 on the state level (Barr and Gillespie, 2000). Only a few research studies on a local or regional level in the Czech Republic and Slovakia provide specifically quantitative information (Skaloš and Engstová, 2010;Diviaková, 2010;Demková and Lipský, 2012). The last estimates of NFWV in the Czech Republic and Slovakia were published in the 1980s (Vaníček, 1985;Moldan et al, 1990).…”

Historical ponds of the Czech Republic: an example of the interpretation of historic maps

“…The 2nd Military Survey proceeded from its groundwork. The stable cadastre maps were applied in some concrete historical studies of landscape changes in Central Europe which focused on all elements of the landscape including water areas (Druga & Falťan, 2014;Klich, Gielarek, & Antosiewicz, 2013;Popelková & Mulková, 2011;Skaloš & Engstová, 2010).…”