Zonal Concept: Landscape Level Parameters and Application

Author:

Dujka Petr12,Kusbach Antonín1

Affiliation:

1. 1 Department of Forest Botany, Dendrology and Geobiocenology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology , Mendel University in Brno , Zemědělská 3, 613 00 Brno ( Czech Republic )

2. 2 Forest Management Institute , Brandýs nad Labem, Branch Kroměříž, Náměstí Míru 498, 767 01 Kroměříž ( Czech Republic ), +420 605 974 201

Abstract

Abstract Zonal concept is a traditional approach in land assessment. Although its principles have been known for over a hundred years, they have not yet been thoroughly evaluated using modern analytical approaches. Assessing the empirically established parameters for characterising a zonal site, establishing threshold values of significant environmental factors, along with assessing the applicability of the zonal concept, were the goals of this study. The data analysed were obtained from the robust and objective Czech National Forest Inventory database. Regression, indirect ordination, hierarchical clustering and spatial analyses of geo-information systems were used. The study revealed seven crucial environmental factors: Slope, Slope Height, Terrain Surface Texture, Negative Openness, Multi-Resolution Index of Valley Bottom Flatness, Soil Type and Soil Subtype. A graphical model of zonal/azonal sites was constructed based on calculated threshold values of the factors. This methodic approach introduces significant geomorphological information that are otherwise problematically detectable in field mapping. We suggest it is possible to use the zonal concept as a base layer for general landscape assessment. Zonal site classification can become a part of a precise land management practice, consisting of valuable empiricism of traditional landscape ecological classifications enriched by modelling in disturbance ecology and prediction of climate change effects.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,Nature and Landscape Conservation,Ecology

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