Method of retrospective evaluation of physiognomic landscape changes and its application in the West Polesie region (CE Poland)

• Published in: Regional environmental change Vol. 14; no. 4; pp. 1627 - 1639
• Main Authors: Chmielewski, Tadeusz J., Kułak, Agnieszka, Michalik-Śnieżek, Malwina
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.08.2014; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Biosphere; Climate Change; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; correlation; Earth and Environmental Science; Environment; Environmental management; Geography; Landscape ecology; landscapes; loci; Nature Conservation; Oceanography; Original Article; Poland; Regional/Spatial Science; Topographic mapping; Poland; Landscape changes; Landscape evaluation; West Polesie; Landscape physiognomy

Since the mid-twentieth century, fundamental landscape physiognomy transformations have been observed. A number of different methods of evaluation of landscape physiognomy values have been developed so far. Nonetheless, the assessment of changes occurring in landscape physiognomy still poses numerou...