In the context of climate change, the decline in biodiversity and current socio-economic
trends, which support the processes of industrialization or abandonment of agricultural land …

Understanding the latent relationship between rural landscape and biodiversity
conservation is of key importance when aiming to preserve food security, ecosystem …

The paper presents a map of historical ponds of the whole Czech Republic which was
created on the basis of the 2nd Military Survey (1: 28,000) from the period 1836 to 1852 …

In the recent extensive literature on European cultural landscapes, much attention is given to
regional variation. Less interest seems to be given to history. Ecologists in particular often …

Faced with the disappearance and ongoing abandonment of traditional agricultural
landscapes (TAL) in Europe, our primary aim is to provide scientific evidence of the …

Tourism is one of the most dynamic sectors of the economy in Slovakia. With the orientation
of localities to tourism, the landscape transformation is reflected in several positive and …

In Slovakia, traditional orchards, like other European rural landscapes and their agricultural
systems, are at long-term risk from changes in land use and management. We focused on …

Traditional agricultural landscapes (TALs) in Slovakia are mosaics of small-scale arable
fields and permanent agricultural cultivations resulting from continuous succession over …

In countries with a planned economy history, numerous actors interested in ecosystem
services (ES) have emerged over the last decades. The power these actors exert is crucial to …

In this paper we will focus on one of the five areas of dispersed settlement in Slovakia–
Novobanská štálová area and the forecast of its development on the example of selected …