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Effects of landscape structure on vegetation and some animal groups after agriculture abandonment

Jean-Luc Grossi, Ludovic Chenavier, Philippe Delcros, Jean-Jacques Brun

Landscape and Urban Planning > 1995 > 31 > 1-3 > 291-301

This research was carried out on the montane belt of a south-exposed watershed in the Intermediary Alps which have been hit by agriculture abandonment. The aim of the study was to study the relationships between vegetation, landscape mosaic, and two kinds of animals using this space at different scales: roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) and earthworms (lumbricids). Landscape dynamics (post-cultural recolonisation)...

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Structure and function of buffer strips from a water quality perspective in agricultural landscapes

Lena B.-M. Vought, Gilles Pinay, Ann Fuglsang, Charles Ruffinoni

Landscape and Urban Planning > 1995 > 31 > 1-3 > 323-331

Buffer strips can greatly improve the water quality of nearby agricultural streams by reducing nutrient leaching in groundwater and surface water runoff, even though they comprise little of the total catchment area. Hence, vegetated buffer zones located along streams and in the upland portions of the catchment can minimize erosion or trap sediments in surface runoff and thereby decrease phosphorus...

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Landscape and Urban Planning > 1995 > 31 > 1-3 > 411-412

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The changing face of the Czech rural landscape

Z. Lipsky

Landscape and Urban Planning > 1995 > 31 > 1-3 > 39-45

Land use and landscape structure changes were investigated using the example of an agricultural landscape in central Bohemia. Attention was paid particularly to the great changes which occurred during the 40 years of socialist collectivism. The analysis of landscape development shows that statistics about land use can give only general information about landscape macrostructure and cannot provide...

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Patterns of macrophyte distribution within a Breton brook compared with other study scales

J. Haury

Landscape and Urban Planning > 1995 > 31 > 1-3 > 349-361

In order to assess macrophyte organisation processes and patterns, with particular reference to corridor effects and connectivity, macrophyte distributions and floristic assemblages were studied within a whole brook system divided into 208 consecutive 50-m-long units in summer. The results were compared with four 5-m-long plots of the downstream part of the brook, and with 196 stations located on...

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Heathland fires temporarily increase species diversity: an example in terrestrial Chironomidae (Diptera)

Yannick R. Delettre

Landscape and Urban Planning > 1995 > 31 > 1-3 > 259-268

Community composition of terrestrial chironomid species (Diptera) was investigated in three different heathland types which underwent burning in central Brittany. Test and burnt sites were compared for 4 years after fire occurred. The overall species diversity increased for 2 years and then decreased. Neighbouring sites (test and burnt ones) were used differently by species: some of them colonised...

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The development of epigeic fauna in new hedges — a comparison of spatial and temporal trends

Horst Gruttke, Paul M. Kornacker

Landscape and Urban Planning > 1995 > 31 > 1-3 > 217-231

The colonisation of a linear sequence of nine young hedge plantations (each 400 m ² ) within an intensely cultivated landscape about 30 km to the west of Bonn has been studied to compare spatial and temporal distribution patterns of epigeic arthropods in order to consider differences obtained concerning an assessment of colonisation characteristics and dispersal trends. The investigation was...

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Multivariate land class and land cover correlations in Northern Ireland

Alan Cooper

Landscape and Urban Planning > 1995 > 31 > 1-3 > 11-19

Comparison of the scaled hierarchical structure of a multivariate land classification of Northern Ireland, with land class ordinations based on field-derived land cover, has been made. Land class distribution on the land cover ordination was reflected in the hierarchical structure of the land classification. This correlation contributes to a validation of the land classification as a sample stratification...

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Factors affecting field weed and field margin flora on a farm in Essex, UK

E.J.P. Marshall, G.M. Arnold

Landscape and Urban Planning > 1995 > 31 > 1-3 > 205-216

Field margins, particularly hedgerows, are important refuges for many species in intensively managed arable landscapes. Their management is influenced by the perception that weed species colonise adjacent crops. Mobile species, such as beetles, are able to use field margins as corridors to recolonise suitable habitat. This study examines whether field margins influence adjacent weed flora, and if...

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Landscape planning for biodiversity

Paul Rookwood

Landscape and Urban Planning > 1995 > 31 > 1-3 > 379-385

For much of recorded history, we have viewed the natural environment as a resource to be exploited. However, our attitude to nature has begun to shift profoundly as the negative effects of our industrial economy have become clearer and more catastrophic. The growing credence given in recent years to conservation of the world's biodiversity is a good example of this shift in cultural values.Landscape...

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Landscape management strategies for the control of diffuse pollution

N.E. Haycock, A.D. Muscutt

Landscape and Urban Planning > 1995 > 31 > 1-3 > 313-321

The control of diffuse pollution is one of the major issues affecting the agricultural landscape. Policies of land use management are now being implemented as a means of improving water quality. The potential success of such policies is difficult to determine owing to the complex nature of the processes controlling the transport of diffuse pollutants such as nitrate, phosphorus and sediment. The use...

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Simulating vegetation dynamics and land use in a mire landscape using a Markov model

Kiira Aaviksoo

Landscape and Urban Planning > 1995 > 31 > 1-3 > 129-142

The paper consists of a dynamical approach to mire-related vegetation and land use development. Investigations were carried out on two different study levels. First, successions of mire plant communities (community or C-level), based on stratigraphical core sample data, and, second, dynamics of plant cover and land use (PC&LU) types of mire landscapes (landscape or L-level), based on sequential...

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Landscape and fire in Brittany heathlands

N. Morvan, F. Burel, J. Baudry, P. Tréhen, more

Landscape and Urban Planning > 1995 > 31 > 1-3 > 81-88

Fire is a recurrent disturbance in heathland landscapes of Brittany. Our study considers relationships between landscape heterogeneity, rate of fire spread and fire frequency. Heterogeneity is defined by the diversity and the fragmentation of landscape units at different scales. This approach of fire processes proves that: (1) perceived landscape heterogeneity is scale dependent; (2) fire speed is...

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Ecological patterns and processes in European agricultural landscapes

Françoise Burel

Landscape and Urban Planning > 1995 > 31 > 1-3 > 1-2

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Gastropod communities, vegetation dynamics and landscape changes along an old-field succession in Provence, France

Frédéric Magnin, Thierry Tatoni, Philip Roche, Jacques Baudry

Landscape and Urban Planning > 1995 > 31 > 1-3 > 249-257

Studies about the relationships between land snail communities and landscape are scarce. The abandonment of many cultivated lands in Provence since the end of the last century gives us the opportunity of an analysis of the organisation pattern of gastropod communities in relation to the recent history and the present day structure of a Mediterranean landscape. The dynamics of a 40 ha landscape, mapped...

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Anthropological approach to agricultural landscape history in Sardinia

Gloria Pungetti

Landscape and Urban Planning > 1995 > 31 > 1-3 > 47-56

In southern Europe the link between agricultural activities and changes in the landscape is greatly evident. An investigation of the past landscape is necessary to understand why these changes occurred and what they mean.In Sardinia the plains, once covered by the Mediterranean forest, have been used for agricultural purposes since Roman times. Notable landscape variation, however, occurred between...

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Landscape diversity and land use planning: a case study in Bavaria

R.J.M. Lenz, R. Stary

Landscape and Urban Planning > 1995 > 31 > 1-3 > 387-398

A maximum of landscape diversity is to be regarded as a helpful target as well as an analytical tool to detect actual planning deficits. First of all, specific indicators and targets for ecosystem and landscape levels will be defined. Ecosystem types are derived from landscape ecological site conditions, and are combined with the demands of minimal areas related to present and potential ecosystem...

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Ascribing plant diversity values to historical changes in landscape: a methodological approach

A.J. Rescia, M.F. Schmitz, M.P. Martín de Agar, C.L. de Pablo, more

Landscape and Urban Planning > 1995 > 31 > 1-3 > 181-194

This paper analyses the way in which the present levels of plant diversity in different patches of an area are affected by changes to landscape heterogeneity. The change to heterogeneity is analysed through the variations in the number and nature of boundaries between the patches, native leafy forests and pine plantations, and the other patches adjacent to them between 1946 and 1990. The changes are...

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Agricultural systems and landscape patterns: how can we build a relationship?

J.P. Deffontaines, C. Thenail, J. Baudry

Landscape and Urban Planning > 1995 > 31 > 1-3 > 3-10

We compare the landscape structure generated by the farming systems of two French regions. The system of production and the resulting farm functioning appears to be a major factor in landscape organisation. More emphasis should be put on farming systems studies to enhance our understanding of landscape dynamics and associated ecological processes.

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Landscape and Urban Planning

Effects of landscape structure on vegetation and some animal groups after agriculture abandonment

Structure and function of buffer strips from a water quality perspective in agricultural landscapes

Author index

The changing face of the Czech rural landscape

Patterns of macrophyte distribution within a Breton brook compared with other study scales

Heathland fires temporarily increase species diversity: an example in terrestrial Chironomidae (Diptera)

The development of epigeic fauna in new hedges — a comparison of spatial and temporal trends

Multivariate land class and land cover correlations in Northern Ireland

Factors affecting field weed and field margin flora on a farm in Essex, UK

Landscape planning for biodiversity

Landscape management strategies for the control of diffuse pollution

Simulating vegetation dynamics and land use in a mire landscape using a Markov model

Landscape and fire in Brittany heathlands

Ecological patterns and processes in European agricultural landscapes

Editorial Board

Gastropod communities, vegetation dynamics and landscape changes along an old-field succession in Provence, France

Anthropological approach to agricultural landscape history in Sardinia

Landscape diversity and land use planning: a case study in Bavaria

Ascribing plant diversity values to historical changes in landscape: a methodological approach

Agricultural systems and landscape patterns: how can we build a relationship?

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