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Towards resolving conservation issues through historical aerial imagery: vegetation cover changes in the Central European tundra

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    0547404 - BÚ 2022 RIV NL eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
    Potůčková, M. - Kupková, L. - Červená, L. - Lysák, J. - Krause, D. - Hrázský, Z. - Březina, S. - Müllerová, Jana
    Towards resolving conservation issues through historical aerial imagery: vegetation cover changes in the Central European tundra.
    Biodiversity and Conservation. Roč. 30, č. 12 (2021), s. 3433-3455. ISSN 0960-3115. E-ISSN 1572-9710
    Institucionální podpora: RVO:67985939
    Klíčová slova: relict tundra * spatial-temporal analysis * remote sensing
    Obor OECD: Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)
    Impakt faktor: 4.296, rok: 2021
    Způsob publikování: Omezený přístup
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-021-02255-y

    Mountain ecosystems are considered to be sensitive to global change and human disturbance. Our retrospective analysis of archival aerial imagery showed dynamics of arctic-alpine tundra vegetation in the Krkonose Mountains, Czech Republic, image classification revealed a change in land cover classes in 44% of the study area over the past eighty years. This particular ecosystem holds many rare features, such as high numbers of endemic, glacial relict and rare species as well as relict geomorphological components such as sorted patterned ground. Our study revealed an accelerating expansion of the native and planted shrub, Pinus mugo, from 30.6% of the study area in 1936 to 48.6% in 2018, mostly at the expense of grasslands that decreased from 59.3% in 1936 to 44.2% in 2018. Shrub expansion represents a threat to relict periglacial landforms, covering 8% of the sorted patterned ground in 1936 and 26.5% in 2018. Shrub encroachment was shown to be due to artificial planting of the pine in the past as well as the cessation of former farming (mowing and cattle grazing) and, most probably, also by global change. Both dwarf pine stands and tundra grasslands hold high conservation value (Natura 2000 habitats), a balance between different nature protection interests must, therefore, be ensured. Detailed spatio-temporally, explicit outputs of the remote sensing analysis can serve as a baseline for nature conservation in order to prepare corresponding management plans.
    Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0324881

     
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