Can we combine structural functionality and landscape services assessments in order to estimate the impact of landscape structure on landscape services?

Hana Skokanová

doi:10.2478/mgr-2013-0016

Abstract

This paper investigates two methods of assessing structural functionality and landscape services, and the potential of their joint application in order to estimate the impact of landscape structure in terms of structural functionality on landscape capacity to provide various services. The methods were tested in three different landscape types of the Czech Republic. The results showed that linking these two methods might help in estimating the impact of landscape structure on some landscape services in landscape types with a prevalent valuable matrix, but are dependent on landscape metrics defining individual functionality groups

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Can we combine structural functionality and landscape services assessments in order to estimate the impact of landscape structure on landscape services?

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