Slovakia is renowned for its remarkable and rare natural beauty, abundant in natural
resources with several noteworthy geological features. However, the protection of nature …

The development of urbanisation is linked to qualitative and quantitative changes in the
landscape and its components aimed at strengthening economic, administrative and cultural …

The present study focuses on the leaf unfolding dynamics of deciduous broadleaf forests in
Central Europe. MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Normalized …

High-resolution ecosystem maps increase the efficiency of policy implementation. However,
due to challenges related to both data and methods, such maps of appropriate scale and …

Mapping and assessing ecosystem services (ES) projects at the national level have been
implemented recently in the European Union in order to comply with the targets set out in the …

We identify hotspots of biocultural value on the national level in Slovakia in order:(1) to
define indicators for the identification and evaluation of biocultural landscape types;(2) to …

Developing appropriate tools to understand and protect ecosystems and the services they
provide is of unprecedented importance. This work describes the activity performed by …

Abstract Information on changes in the area of different ecosystems is needed in order to
establish an accounting system for ecosystem conditions and services. Currently, there are …

The agricultural uses of the Coordination of Information on the Environment Land Cover
(CLC) dataset suffer from limitations such as temporal stationarity, low spatial resolution …

This article provides an overview and results of the pilot national ecosystem services
assessment in Slovakia. It follows the MAES process and past ecosystem services (ES) …