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Title: Impact of dispersed settlement on the structure and diversity of rural landscape (Case study of village Hrušov, Slovak Republic)

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Hanušin, Ján : Autor Affiliation ORCID

Date issued/created:

2021

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Subtitle:

Geographia Polonica Vol. 94 No. 1 (2021)

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IGiPZ PAN

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

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24 cm

Abstract:

The impact of a dispersed settlement on the changes of the land cover (LC) and landscape diversity (LDI) in the years 1950, 1986 and 2016 was analyzed on four spatially different levels: on the level of the whole cadastral area, 60 circular areas – hinterlands of hamlets, 15 circular areas in agricultural land outside hamlets and areas outside circular areas. The primary hypothesis that the landscape with a dispersed settlement is internally differentiated in terms of LC and LDI changes and that a dispersed settlement itself is an important driving force of these changes has been confirmed.

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