What are the transitions of woodlands at the landscape level? Change trajectories of forest, non-forest and reclamation woody vegetation elements in a mining landscape in North-western Czech Republic

Skaloš, Jan; Novotný, Marek; Woitsch, Jiří; Zacharová, Johana; Berchová, Kateřina; Svoboda, Miroslav; Křováková, Kateřina; Romportl, Dušan; Keken, Zdeněk

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2015.02.003

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“…The lower the management intensity, the higher the coverage by woody vegetation. This trend is seen in many regions of Europe, where large-scale socio-economic changes have led to the abandonment of rural activities and gradual overgrowth by natural vegetation (Regos et al, 2016;Skalos et al, 2015). It is important to assess the relative positive and negative effects of land abandonment on particular areas where low-intensity farming is no longer socially or economically viable in order to quantify the potential conservation costs and benefits of rewilding as a land-use management policy.…”

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Small Woodlands and Trees in Traditional Agricultural Landscapes of Slovakia

Špulerová

Dobrovodská

Šatalová

et al. 2017

Journal of Landscape Ecology

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The studies focused on distribution and characteristic of small woodlands and trees as a typical feature of traditional agricultural landscapes (TAL) in Slovakia are missing or are rather local. The source data for this study was obtained from the national inventory of TAL performed in 2010-2012 in Slovakia, where woody vegetation was considered as one of the landscape elements creating mosaic of TAL. Based on the types of woodland present, which endow the landscape with a distinctive character and structure, we have divided TAL into five subtypes: 1) TAL with low occurrence of woodland -not more than 10 % of the site covered by woods, 2) TAL with spatial woodland formation, 3) TAL with solitaire trees dominant, 4) TAL with lines of trees or shrubs dominant, and 5) TAL with small woodland dominant.The proportion of woodland was relatively low, as TAL with low occurrence of woodland (36 %) was the most extended subtype of TAL. The most common dominant woodland structure was lines of trees and shrubs, with significant occurrence in TAL of arable-land and grassland and TAL with dispersed settlement. They tended to occur on typical agrarian relief forms. Our evaluation was supported by statistical analyses focused on the relationships between woodland type on agrarian relief forms (mostly balks) and their biotic and abiotic characteristics (type of agrarian relief form, content of skeleton, width, height, its continuity, as well as continuity of wood cover)

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Small Woodlands and Trees in Traditional Agricultural Landscapes of Slovakia

Špulerová

Dobrovodská

Šatalová

et al. 2017

Journal of Landscape Ecology

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“…Other studies concentrate on linear elements such as hedgerows (Burel, 1992;Barr and Gillespie, 2000;McCollin et al, 2000;Sklenička et al, 2009;Sánchez et al, 2010). Skaloš and Engstová (2010) and Skaloš et al (2015) included not only scattered woody vegetation in the open landscapes, but also settlement vegetation in their research projects.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Most of them have focused on spatiotemporal changes in the distribution and composition (Burel and Baudry, 1990;Kristensen and Caspersen, 2002;Plieninger et al, 2012;Demková and Lipský, 2015;Skaloš et al, 2015). Other work has aimed at the relation to biodiversity (Burel, 1992;McCollin et al, 2000;Fischer and Lindenmayer, 2002;Ernoult andAlard, 2011), hydrological cycles (Eldridge andFreudenberger, 2005;Ryszkowski and Kedziora, 2007;Chandler and Chappell, 2008), microclimate (Gill et al, 2007;Sánchez et al, 2010), management and conservation (Boffa, 2000;Plieninger et al, 2003;Manning et al, 2006), or landscape memory and heritage (Schama, 1995).…”

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

Demková

Lipský

2017

Moravian Geographical Reports

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“…Land-use dynamics are a complex interplay of spatial and temporal processes, but a few key socioeconomic and political developments can account for an important part of the spatial signature in LAI change (MacDonald et al, 2000;Navarro & Pereira, 2012;Plieninger et al, 2016). The dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 ended large-scale governmentplanned and subsidised agriculture across Eastern Europe, resulting in widespread abandonment of cropland (Estel et al, 2015;Kuemmerle et al, 2016;MacDonald et al, 2000;Skaloš et al, 2015).…”

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Land surface greening suggests vigorous woody regrowth throughout European semi‐natural vegetation

Buitenwerf

Sandel

Normand

et al. 2018

Global Change Biology

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The satellite record has revealed substantial land surface “greening” in the northern hemisphere over recent decades. Process‐based Earth system models (ESMs) attribute enhanced vegetation productivity (greening) to CO2 fertilisation. However, the models poorly reproduce observed spatial patterns of greening, suggesting that they ignore crucial processes. Here, we explore whether fine‐scale land cover dynamics, as modified by ecological and land‐use processes, can explain the discrepancy between models and satellite‐based estimates of greening. We used 500 m satellite‐derived Leaf Area Index (LAI) to quantify greening. We focus on semi‐natural vegetation in Europe, and distinguish between conservation areas and unprotected land. Within these ecological and land‐use categories, we then explored the relationships between vegetation change and major climatic gradients. Despite the relatively short time‐series (15 years), we found a strong overall increase in LAI (i.e., greening) across all European semi‐natural vegetation types. The spatial pattern of vegetation change identifies land‐use change, particularly land abandonment, as a major initiator of vegetation change both in‐ and outside of protected areas. The strongest LAI increases were observed in mild climates, consistent with more vigorous woody regrowth after cessation of intensive management in these environments. Surprisingly, rates of vegetation change within protected areas did not differ significantly from unprotected semi‐natural vegetation. Overall, the detected LAI increases are consistent with previous, coarser‐scale, studies. The evidence indicates that woody regrowth following land abandonment is an important driver of land surface greening throughout Europe. The results offer an explanation for the large discrepancies between ESM‐derived and satellite‐derived greening estimates and thus generate new avenues for improving the ESMs on which we rely for crucial climate forecasts.

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What are the transitions of woodlands at the landscape level? Change trajectories of forest, non-forest and reclamation woody vegetation elements in a mining landscape in North-western Czech Republic

Cited by 23 publications

References 45 publications

Small Woodlands and Trees in Traditional Agricultural Landscapes of Slovakia

Small Woodlands and Trees in Traditional Agricultural Landscapes of Slovakia

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

Land surface greening suggests vigorous woody regrowth throughout European semi‐natural vegetation

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