Conceptions of Landscape-Ecological Relevance Emerged in the Czech Botany during the Second Half of Twentieth Century

• Main Author: Kovář Pavel
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 2015-12-01
• Series: Journal of Landscape Ecology
• Subjects: conceptions within czech botany; relevance to landscape level; mapping of potential vegetation; structure and dynamics in landscapes; corridors; deductive classification of vegetation; soil seed bank; productivity and ecophysiology of grasslands; agroecocycles and segetal vegetation; dynamics of wetlands; anemo-orographic systems; disturbance; diversity of plants; invasive plants and invasions
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1515/jlecol-2015-0013

This paper summarizes those substantial theoretical concepts or methods for applications within interdisciplinary or practical uses published by Czech autors (geobotanists = ecological botanists, plant ecologists and ecophysiologists) during the second half of the 20th century, that were internationally cited. All selected thematical clusters are of landscape-ecological relevance through various contexts. Examples include the concepts of (potential) reconstructed vegetation in maps (R. Neuhäusl, Z. Neuhäuslová), linear vegetation features (corridors in landscape) and deductive classification of vegetation (K. Kopecký), analysis of soil seed bank (Z. Kropáč), dependency of macrophyte plant stands on ecodynamics (S. Hejný), dynamic periodicity in segetal vegetation (Z. Kropáč, E. Hadač, S. Hejný), anemo-orographic system explaining species richness in mountain regions (J. Jeník), productivity in grassland ecosystems (M. Rychnovská, J. Květ), elementary landscape units based on homogenity and potential vegetation (E. Hadač), landscape dispensation phenomena (V. Ložek), afforestation of coastal sandy dunes – the Netherlands, and polluted areas - the Czech Republic (J. Fanta), invasive plants and invasions into landscapes (M. Rejmánek).