The influence of environmental factors and management methods on the vegetation of mesic grasslands in a central European mountain range

Flora ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 209 (12) ◽  
pp. 687-692 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Pruchniewicz ◽  
Ludwik Żołnierz
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Central European ◽  
European Mountain

Between the Czech Krkonoše and the German Riesengebirge: Nationalism and Tourism in the Giant Mountains, 1880s–1930s

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Stanislav Holubec
Keyword(s):  
Nazi Germany ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Ethnic Conflicts ◽  
Central European ◽  
European Mountain ◽  
The Alps

Abstract The article deals with Czech and German nationalist discourses and practices in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as they relate to tourism in the Krkonoše/Riesengebirge, the highest Central European mountain range between the Alps and Scandinavia. It will discuss the discourses developed in relation to mountain tourism and nationalism (metaphors of battlefields, wedges, walls, gates, and bastions), different symbolical cores of mountains, and practices of tourist and nationalist organizations (tourist trails and markings, excursions, the ownership of mountains huts, languages used, memorials, and the construction of roads). It will examine how these discourses and practices changed from the first Czech-German ethnic conflicts in the 1800s until the end of interwar Czechoslovakia. Finally, it will discuss the Czech culture of defeat in the shadow of the Munich Agreement, which meant the occupation of the Giant Mountains by Nazi Germany.

scholarly journals Extreme geomorphic events in the contemporary evolution of forested slopes in a Central European mountain range, the Sudetes

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-28
Author(s):  
MIGOŃ Piotr
Keyword(s):  
Debris Flows ◽  
Heavy Rain ◽  
Water Erosion ◽  
Surface Processes ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Strong Wind ◽  
Contemporary Evolution ◽  
Central European ◽  
European Mountain ◽  
Recurrence Intervals

Forested slopes of the Sudetes have long been implicitly considered as stable under contemporary environmental conditions, with little geomorphic change throughout the Holocene. This view is difficult to sustain and this review-type paper brings together evidence that infrequent but potent surface processes locally cause significant remodelling of slopes and regolith removal or redistribution. These processes are debris flows, shallow and deepseated landslides, episodes of efficient linear water erosion and windthrows. All are triggered by exceptional meteorological events such as heavy rain or strong wind, but additional factors of slope steepness and suitable lithology play a role. Scarce database does not permit to firmly establish recurrence intervals of such events but they seem to occur at least once per decade (within the entire mountain range) for rain-induced phenomena and two-three times per century for wind-induced phenomena.

VEGETATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS OF KARST MIRES IN BROAD-LEAVED FOREST ZONE: METHODICAL APPROACHES, "БОТАНИЧЕСКИЙ ЖУРНАЛ"

2012 ◽  
pp. 524-537
Author(s):  
D.V. ZATSARINNAYA ◽  
E.M. VOLKOVA ◽  
A.A. SIRIN
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Vegetation Cover ◽  
Anthropogenic Disturbances ◽  
Water Levels ◽  
Forest Zone ◽  
Central European ◽  
Vegetation Communities ◽  
Broad Leaved Forest ◽  
Leaved Forest ◽  
Floating Peat

Vegetation cover and environmental factors were studied in the system of karts mires in the broad- leaved forest zone in Tula Region, Central European Russia. Mires are formed in the sinkholes and characterized by rather low anthropogenic disturbances. These mires are characterised by floating peat mats and variety of vegetation communities which are differ by ecological conditions (water levels, acidity and nutrition). Development and growth of floating mats change water and mineral feeding that leads to succession of vegetation communities.

scholarly journals Longitudinal zonation of larval Hydropsyche (Trichoptera: Hydropsychidae): abiotic environmental factors and biotic interactions behind the downstream sequence of Central European species

Hydrobiologia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Márk Ficsór ◽  
Zoltán Csabai
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Biotic Interactions ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Longitudinal Distribution ◽  
Central European ◽  
European Species ◽  
Longitudinal Gradients ◽  
Species Specific ◽  
Behavioural Aspects ◽  
Abiotic Environmental Factors

AbstractThe aim of this review is to summarize the literature knowledge about how abiotic environmental factors and biotic interactions affect the sequentially overlapping longitudinal distribution of Central European species of the net-spinning freshwater caddisfly larvae of the genus Hydropsyche (Trichoptera: Hydropsychidae). In this relation, several physical and chemical parameters of water are discussed, as well as different species-specific traits, behavioural aspects and the interaction of coexisting species. Longitudinal gradients of river networks, especially annual temperature range, flow velocity and the particle size of suspended food material play a crucial role in forming the downstream succession of characteristic species, while increased levels of organic pollution, nutrients, salinity and heavy metals facilitates the presence of more tolerant ones. Several species-specific traits, such as respiration range, net-building frequency, head capsule size or optimal net-building velocity correlate with the position of a given species in the sequence. Coexistence of species with similar ecological demands in the overlapping zones of distribution is facilitated by differences in feeding and net-building habits, microhabitat preferences and staggering life cycles, but complicated at the same time by means of inter- and intraspecific territorial behaviour, such as fighting for the ownership of larval retreats or the practice of stridulation.

Quantification of Hortonian overland flow generation and soil erosion in a Central European low mountain range using rainfall experiments

CATENA ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 113 ◽  
pp. 202-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Butzen ◽  
M. Seeger ◽  
S. Wirtz ◽  
M. Huemann ◽  
C. Mueller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Soil Erosion ◽  
Overland Flow ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Central European ◽  
Flow Generation ◽  
Low Mountain Range

scholarly journals Genetic diversity and dispersal potential of the stonefly Dinocras cephalotes in a central European low mountain range

2014 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasco Elbrecht ◽  
Christian K. Feld ◽  
Maria Gies ◽  
Daniel Hering ◽  
Martin Sondermann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Diversity ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Central European ◽  
Dispersal Potential ◽  
Low Mountain Range

Integrating multi-source data and model projections to address carbon cycling in central European forests

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarina Merganicova ◽  
Roland Hollos ◽  
Zoltan Barcza ◽  
Jan Merganic ◽  
Zuzana Sitkova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Carbon Cycling ◽  
Forest Dynamics ◽  
Forest Growth ◽  
Forest Monitoring ◽  
Monitoring Data ◽  
Central European ◽  
Long Term Monitoring ◽  
Term Monitoring

<p>Carbon cycling in forest ecosystems is affected by a number of interacting environmental factors. Here we analyse carbon sequestration in temperate forests composed of three common Central European species: Norway spruce, European beech and oak along an extended environmental gradient across Central Europe using long-term monitoring data and process-based modelling of forest dynamics. For the analyses we used selected ICP forest monitoring plots, long-term forest research plots from thinning trials, and highly-equipped intensively monitored plots from five central European countries: Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and the Czech Republic. Their temporal development was simulated using a process-based model Biome-BGCMuSo, which is sensitive to soil and climate conditions. Since such models of forest growth dynamics implicitly describe relationships between forest productivity and environmental conditions, their implementation can reveal the main factors affecting carbon cycling in forests along the gradients of latitude, altitude, or other environmental factors as long as they are included in the models. The study indicates that by linking long-term monitoring data and forest growth modelling we can not only test the model capacity to simulate forest dynamics, but above all we can increase our capacity to address main challenges faced by the central European forestry with respect to the global climate change.  </p>

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