The link between landscape pattern and vegetation naturalness on a regional scale

Szilassi, Péter; Bata, Teodóra; Szabó, Szilárd; Czúcz, Bálint; Molnár, Zsolt; Mezősi, Gábor

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.06.003

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“…The European Landscape Convention was initiated to protect and sustain European landscapes characteristic of certain countries and cultures (Jones 2007). Protection of the traditional landscape structure and land use types can considerably contribute to biodiversity conservation by ensuring the optimum landscape configuration and proper management for seminatural habitats (Babai and Molnár 2014, Plieninger et al 2015, Szilassi et al 2017). One of the major threats to European landscapes is the huge loss of habitats due to the intensive land use of past centuries (Lindborg et al 2015, Hüse et al 2016).…”

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Cultural heritage and biodiversity conservation – plant introduction and practical restoration on ancient burial mounds

Valkó¹,

Tóth²,

Kelemen³

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Linking the conservation of cultural heritage and natural values provides a unique opportunity for preserving traditional landscapes and receives an increased awareness from stakeholders and society. Ancient burial mounds are proper objects of such projects as they are iconic landscape elements of the Eurasian steppes and often act as refugia for grassland specialist species. The aim of this project was to reintroduce grassland plant species to burial mounds for representing them as cultural monuments with the associated biodiversity for the public. The effectiveness of seed sowing, transplanting greenhouse-grown plants and individuals from threatened populations on burial mounds in Hortobágy National Park, Hungary was tested. The following questions were answered: (1) which method is the most effective for species introduction? (2) which species can establish most successfully? (3) how does management affect the species establishment rates? It was found advisable to use a combination of seed sowing and transplanting greenhouse-grown plants. Sowing was found as a cost-effective method for introducing large-seeded species, whilst introduction of greenhouse-grown transplants warranted higher establishment rates for a larger set of species. Transplanting adult individuals was more reliable regardless of management regimes, however this method is labour-intensive and expensive. Intensive management, like mowing with heavy machinery and intensive grazing, should be avoided in the first few years after introduction. The authors CONSERVATION IN PRACTICE Launched to accelerate biodiversity conservation A peer-reviewed open-access journalOrsolya Valkó et al. / Nature Conservation 24: 65-80 (2018) 66 highlighted the fact that introducing characteristic grassland species on cultural monuments offers a great opportunity to link issues of landscape and biodiversity conservation. This project demonstrated that, by the revitalisation of cultural monuments, cultural ecosystem services can also be restored.

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Cultural heritage and biodiversity conservation – plant introduction and practical restoration on ancient burial mounds

Valkó¹,

Tóth²,

Kelemen³

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“…Human interference assessment methods based on the Hemeroby index (HI) are widely used to quantitatively evaluate human interference in different types of ecosystems such as forests, grasslands, wetlands, agricultural areas and cities [21][22][23][24][25][26]. These methods were built on the basis of anthropogenic interference theory [27] to evaluate the impact of human activities on plants.…”

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Dynamic Evaluation of the Impact of Human Interference during Rapid Urbanisation of Coastal Zones: A Case Study of Shenzhen

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Coastal ecosystems undergoing rapid urbanisation have characteristics of both natural and artificial ecosystems. How we evaluate the dynamic impact of human activities on coastal ecosystems is important for coastal zone management and development. In this study, we first developed a method to extract both the natural and artificial features of coastal land cover, and classified the coastal landscapes impacted by human activities from an ecological service perspective. We then constructed an ecological interference index for classification to evaluate the impact of coastal human interference on both artificial and natural ecosystems during rapid urbanisation. Lastly, we verified our method by applying it to the coastal zone in Shenzhen, China. Our results show that this method can describe the effects of human activities on coastal zones in more detail. The distribution of human activity was mainly associated with the geomorphology of the coastal zone. Changes in human interference were seen strongly in proximity to both the landward and coastal boundaries of the study area, in close correlation with the public’s increasing conscience for ecological environment protection.

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“…Por meio da classificação de imagens de satélite é possível representar componentes naturais e antrópicos em modelos espaciais categorizados por mancha, corredor e matriz ou em classes de unidades que sintetizam a sobreposição de informações. A configuração da paisagem fornece inferências quanto às respostas ecológicas e a adequação das atividades antrópicas ao ambiente (FAHRIG, 2003;FORMAN;GODRON, 1986;LANG;BLASCHKE, 2009;METZGER, 2006;RAMEZANI et al, 2013;SALINAS, 2004SALINAS, , 2005SALINAS;RAMÓN, 2013;SZILASSI et al, 2017;TURNER, 2005;TURNER;GARDNER;O'NEILL, 2001).…”

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“…revisar classificadores baseados em pixel, frequentemente utilizados, quantificando acertos e erros por classe de cobertura da terra e o desempenho geral por classificador (BRIEM; BENEDIKTSSON; SVEINSSON, 2002;GREEN, 2009;IWAI;QUINTANILHA, 2005;LIU et al, 2014;LINDENMAYER et al, 2008;METZGER, 2006;POLYCHRONAKI et al, 2014;SCHUSTER, 2014;SZILASSI et al, 2017).…”

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“…As técnicas e metodologias da Cartografia, do Sensoriamento Remoto, Geoprocessamento e dos Sistemas de Informações Geográficas (SIG) permitem elaborar modelos espaciais, como os mapas de uso e cobertura da terra, que sintetizam as informações de um momento da dinâmica da paisagem (FORMAN; GODRON, 1986;LANG;BLASCHKE, 2009;ROSS, 2009;SALINAS;RAMÓN, 2013;SARTORELLO, 2014). Fornecendo uma base cartográfica que pode ser quantificada e analisada por métodos da Ecologia da Paisagem em modelos obtidos pelas unidades de vegetação (FORMAN; GODRON, 1986;GUSTAFSON, 1998;LANG;BLASCHKE, 2009;SARTORELLO, 2014;SZILASSI et al, 2017;TURNER;GARDNER;O'NEILL, 2001;URBAN, 2005).…”

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Análise e propostas de procedimentos técnicos para a elaboração de mapas de paisagem aplicados no planejamento ambiental da RMSP

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CAMPOS-DE SOUZA, Waldir Wagner. Analyzes and proposals of techniques procedures for development of landscape maps applied in the environmental planning of the RMSP. 2018. 281 f. Tese (Doutorado em Geografia Física) -Faculdade de Filosofia Letras e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de São Paulo (FFLCH -USP), São Paulo, 2018.In Geography there was a theoretical and methodological convergence between landscape and the Remote Sensing. Landscape is a concept that guides systemic analyzes, with real and visible results, defined by different scales of component interactions. These explicit dimensions are also present in Remote Sensing which uses techniques and equipments to detect objects and interpret natural and anthropic components in models and thematic maps. Landscape Ecology analyzes maps and data produced by the association between land cover classes or landscape structure metrics that indicate current conditions, fragility and future scenarios, highlighting the aptitude and conflicts with anthropic use. Providing an approach that integrates spatial patterns and ecological processes applied in conservation strategies, environmental planning and spatial planning. The maps are the basis for obtaining results, being indispensable make sure an accuracy that avoids errors and incorrect propositions. Technical advances, efforts to manually identify land cover classes and the less need analysts' decision become common to use automatic classifiers of satellite imagery. The lack of protocols and tests to guide or direct the choice of classifiers, considering landscape attributes, lead to incorrect or weak analyzes. Our goal was to analyze the adequacy of Remote Sensing and Landscape Ecology methodological procedures in high resolution RapidEye satellite images. We selected a landscape sample of the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo (APRMSP), and we did a visual classification and applied supervised and unsupervised five pixel-based classifiers: Mahalanobis Distance, Maximum Likelihood, Spectral Angle Mapper, Support Vector Machines and Iterative Self-Organizing Data Analysis (ISODATA). We calculated the overall accuracy of classifications using confusion matrix and Kappa statistics, and the classifiers performance by voting technique. The maps of Visual Classification and ISODATA Classification, which had the highest accuracy (78,1%), were simplified in forest and non-forest for the landscape structure metrics calculation in the categories of patch, class, shape and graph theory. In the visual classification the most difficult units to separate were the pairs Exposed Soil and Urbanized Area, Forest and Reforestation. In the reference samples of classifiers, the lowest separate index was between Reforestation and Forest, Exposed Soil and Urbanized Area, Wetland and Field and highest separate index pairs were: Wetlands and Water, Water and Field, Water and Forest. We verified that voting technique can be used to select a classifier considering a focal unit, such as ISODATA that obtained the highest index (83.9 %) for the Forest...

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The link between landscape pattern and vegetation naturalness on a regional scale

Cited by 49 publications

References 38 publications

Cultural heritage and biodiversity conservation – plant introduction and practical restoration on ancient burial mounds

Cultural heritage and biodiversity conservation – plant introduction and practical restoration on ancient burial mounds

Dynamic Evaluation of the Impact of Human Interference during Rapid Urbanisation of Coastal Zones: A Case Study of Shenzhen

Análise e propostas de procedimentos técnicos para a elaboração de mapas de paisagem aplicados no planejamento ambiental da RMSP

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