A5013576792- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Plant and animal studies
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Rural development and sustainability
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Soil and Land Suitability Analysis
- Forest ecology and management
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Remote Sensing and Land Use
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Mining and Resource Management
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
Czech Academy of Sciences, Global Change Research Institute
2018-2023
Climate change plays an important role in shaping ecological stability of landscape systems. Increasing weather fluctuations such as droughts threaten the natural and anthropogenic landscapes. Uncertainty exists regarding validity traditional assessment schemes under climate change. This commentary debates main factors that stability, discussing basic approaches to interpret functioning. To address this pivotal issue, intimate linkage between diversity is explored, considering different...
The linkage between land-use change and demographic transitions in advanced countries has becoming increasingly complex because of the mutual interplay environmental socioeconomic spheres influencing degree sustainability both regional local developmental processes. relationship urbanization economic development been relatively well investigated by clarifying consequent impacts on population dynamics. In early phases development, grew at a particularly high rate, declining (more or less...
Domestic gardens supply pollinators with valuable habitats, but the risk of exposure to pesticides has been little investigated. Artificial nesting shelters a red mason bee species (Osmia bicornis) were placed in two suburban and commercial fruit orchards determine contamination forage sources by pesticides. Larval pollen provisions collected from total 14 nests. They consisted mainly oaks (65–100% weight/sample), Brassicaceae (≤34% w/s) trees (≤1.6% w/s). Overall, 30 detected each sample...
Land-use changes in Europe have been influenced by social forces including economic, demographic, political, technological and cultural factors. Contributing to a refined conceptualization of multifaceted processes landscape transformation the European continent, present study proposes an extensive review land-use trends Eastern Europe, focusing on past, future conditions that may characterize latent drivers change. Three time periods with specific institutional, political socioeconomic...
Given the significance of national carbon inventories, importance large-scale estimates stocks is increasing. Accurate biomass are essential for tracking changes in stock through repeated assessment stock, widely used both vegetation and soil, to estimate sequestration. Objectives: The aim our study was determine variability several aspects value when input matrix (1) expressed either as a vector or raster; (2) local (1:10,000) regional (1:100,000) scale data; (3) rasterized with different...
The Mediterranean region is exposed to desertification risk because of the joint impact soil degradation, land-use change and global warming, although individual role such drivers has been occasionally investigated. present study clarifies spatial linkage between urbanization, intended as a pervasive form landscape transformation in Southern Europe, by analyzing trends over time Environmentally Sensitive Area Index (1960–2010) at different settlement densities Italy. Seven density classes,...
As urban areas expand worldwide, the importance of ecosystem services provided by and peri-urban (ESs) increases, especially those that mitigate effects ongoing climate change. We present a relatively simple method to assess performance three functions (EFs: evapotranspiration, carbon production, habitat- landscape-level biodiversity) in areas, indicating their capacity provide relevant regulative ESs. The was applied two Czech foothill cities, Liberec Děčín, results showed EFs both cities...
Global and regional biodiversity loss is caused by several drivers including urban development, land use intensification, overexploitation of natural resources, environmental pollution, climate change. The main aim our study was to adapt the GLOBIO3 model conditions Czech Republic (CR) assess naturalness vulnerability at habitat level on a detailed scale across entire CR. An additional affecting types. adapted CZ-GLOBIO adapting global local scales using quality data instead species...
Understanding Soil Degradation Processes (SDPs) is a fundamental issue for humankind. degradation involves complex processes that are influenced by multifaceted ensemble of socioeconomic and ecological factors at vastly different spatial scales. Desertification risk (the ultimate outcome soil degradation, seen as an irreversible process natural resource destruction) trends have been recently analyzed assuming “resilience thinking” appropriate interpretative paradigm. In purely dimension,...
Abstract The choice of suitable biodiversity assessment methods for practical purposes in city planning and decision-making is still a challenging problem. Despite the availability wide variety almost all dimensions diversity (mainly species habitat diversity, including spatial aspects), few them have entered ‘daily’ work. In example in-depth examinations German Czech cities (e.g., Dresden Liberec), it was found that most frequently applied analyses are those protected habitats urban nature...
Exposure to pesticides may jeopardize pollinators, but it has rarely been examined in urban landscapes. We used larval food provisions (mix of pollen and nectar) mason bees (Osmia spp.) nested artificial shelters as matrices investigate the rate pesticide pollution twelve allotment sites Prague Brno cities. Seven commercial croplands (fruit orchards, oilseed rape fields) were selected for comparison. In total, 79 samples analysed using a validated UPLC–MS/MS method presence 262 and/or...
Pollination by natural pollinators is important for many agricultural and wild plants.Our study aimed to determine the food supply solitary bees at selected localities during vegetation period.The inventory of plant species cover flowering herbs bee populations were carried out in orchards landscapes growing season 2018-2022.Higher found flower strips arable land.All surveyed alleys, balks, appeared be sources pollinators.