Publication details
How to express topographically complex landscape in vegetation data analysis?
| Authors | |
|---|---|
| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | 17th International Workshop European Vegetation Survey |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Field | Botany |
| Keywords | phenology; topographically complex landscape; Moravian Karst |
| Description | Searching for main ecological gradients is a traditional focus of phytosociological studies. Some of them try to find explanation of vegetation patterns through easily determined variables variables such as aspect, slope, altitude, land forms and indices generated from geographic information systems. Together with Ellenberg indicator values, these are the most common and often the only environmental variables tested. Many authors also use various temperature indices and energetic balance calculation (radiation, heat, hill shade, heat index, skyview, potential direct solar irradiation) as indirect characteristics of topoclimate which can play a crucial role in vegetation distribution. |
| Related projects: |