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Relief as an important factor in determining priority landscapes: a case study on Polish landscape parks Cover

Relief as an important factor in determining priority landscapes: a case study on Polish landscape parks

Miscellanea Geographica
Volume 24 (2020): Issue 1 (January 2020)
By: Piotr Wałdykowski,  Joanna Adamczyk and  Agata Cieszewska  
Open Access
|Jan 2020

Figures & Tables

Figure 1

Location of study area in the context of Poland
Location of study area in the context of Poland

Figure 2

A comparison of landscape types as a result of a landscape audit for the Brudzeń Landscape Park Conservation Plan (source: own work and © OpenStreetMap contributorshttps://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) A – Annex 2 of the Regulation on the Principles of Preparing Landscape Audits of 11 January 2019 (source: own work); B – Used in Landscape Parks’ Conservation Plans (source: own work, based on Cieszewska et al. 2018). (Abbreviations explained in Table 1.)
A comparison of landscape types as a result of a landscape audit for the Brudzeń Landscape Park Conservation Plan (source: own work and © OpenStreetMap contributorshttps://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) A – Annex 2 of the Regulation on the Principles of Preparing Landscape Audits of 11 January 2019 (source: own work); B – Used in Landscape Parks’ Conservation Plans (source: own work, based on Cieszewska et al. 2018). (Abbreviations explained in Table 1.)

Figure 3

Comparison of landscape types as a result of a landscape audit for the Chojnów Landscape Park Conservation Plan (source: own work and © OpenStreetMap contributorshttps://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) A – Annex 2 of the Regulation on the Principles of Preparing Landscape Audits of 11 January 2019 (source: own work); B – The method used in Landscape Parks’ Conservation Plans (source: own work based on Cieszewska et al. 2018). (Abbreviations explained in Table 1.)
Comparison of landscape types as a result of a landscape audit for the Chojnów Landscape Park Conservation Plan (source: own work and © OpenStreetMap contributorshttps://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) A – Annex 2 of the Regulation on the Principles of Preparing Landscape Audits of 11 January 2019 (source: own work); B – The method used in Landscape Parks’ Conservation Plans (source: own work based on Cieszewska et al. 2018). (Abbreviations explained in Table 1.)

Figure 4

Comparison of landscape types as a result of a landscape audit for the Kozubów Landscape Park Conservation Plan (source: own work and © OpenStreetMap contributorshttps://www.openstreetmap.org/copyrightA – Annex 2 of the Regulation on the Principles of Preparing Landscape Audits of 11 January 2019 (source: own work); B – the method used in Landscape Parks’ Conservation Plans (source: own work based on Cieszewska et al. 2018). (Abbreviations explained in Table 1.)
Comparison of landscape types as a result of a landscape audit for the Kozubów Landscape Park Conservation Plan (source: own work and © OpenStreetMap contributorshttps://www.openstreetmap.org/copyrightA – Annex 2 of the Regulation on the Principles of Preparing Landscape Audits of 11 January 2019 (source: own work); B – the method used in Landscape Parks’ Conservation Plans (source: own work based on Cieszewska et al. 2018). (Abbreviations explained in Table 1.)

Comparison of the number and types of divisions between Annex 2 of the Regulation on the Principles of Preparing Landscape Audits of 11 January 2019 and the authors’ method used in Landscape Parks Conservation Plans_

Landscape ParkAnnex 2 of the Regulation of 11 January 2019Method used in Regional Parks Conservation PlansSummary of diferences between the authors’ method and the Regulation
No of landscape typesNo of relief typesNo of landscape typesNo of relief types
Brudzeń6294The ranges of valleys are more precisely defined.The main areas of the plains have been retained.Other types are diferent.
Chojnów103158The ranges of valleys are more precisely defined.The main areas of the plains have been retained.Other types are diferent.
Kozubów6386The ranges of the valleys are similar.Other types are different.

Classification of relief, typology and identified landscape types, according to: A –Annex 2 of the Regulation on the Principles of Preparing Landscape Audits of 11 January 2019 (source: own work); B – The method used in preparing Landscape Parks’ Conservation Plans (source: own work based on Cieszewska et al_ 2018)

Relief typologyIdentified landscape types, abbreviations from maps
Brudzeń Landscape Park
A- Plains- ValleysALB - Forested landscape on coniferous habitats in valleys/on plains
LL - Forested landscape on deciduous habitats in valleys/on plains
LOB - Forested landscape on riparian and swampy habitats in valleys
WRm - Rural landscape with predomination of agricultural land use mosaic with small-sized plots on plains
WRs - Rural landscape with mosaic of agricultural land use with medium-sized plots on plains
WZ - Rural landscape with predomination of rural settlements on plains
B- long slopes of wide river valleys- plains of postglacial upland- wide river valleys with short slopes- narrow valleys with short slopesBWL - Forested landscape on postglacial upland plains
WMZ - Mosaic landscape of built up areas and fields on postglacial upland plains
WMP - Mosaic landscape of fields and built up areas on postglacial upland plains
WP - Fields landscape on postglacial upland plains
WZ - Settlement's landscape on postglacial upland plains
DwMkz - Mosaic of forests, meadows and fields in wide river valleys with short slopes
DsMLkz - Mosaic of forests, meadows and fields in narrow valleys with short slopes
DZL - Forested landscape on long slopes of wide river valleys
DZM - Mosaic landscape of fields and forest on long slopes of wide river valleys
Chojnów Landscape Park
A- Plains- Valleys- HillsALL - Forested landscape with deciduous habitats on plains/in valleys
LOB - Forested landscape on riparian and swampy habitats in valleys/on plains
WZs - Rural landscapes with artificial water reservoirs on plains/in valleys
WRm - Rural landscape with predomination of agricultural land use mosaic with small-sized plots on plains
WZ - Rural landscape with predomination of rural settlements on plains
WRs - Rural landscape with agricultural land use mosaic with medium-sized plots on plains
MRp - Mosaic landscape with predomination of post-agricultural areas on plains
PMLZ - Suburban and forest settlements landscape on plains
GEOz - Mining areas of finished opencast mining on plain
B- bottoms of valleys with breeding ponds- other river valleys- river valleys evidently incised- depressions filled with wetlands- plains of postglacial upland- dunes- steep slopes of postglacial uplands- alluvial plainsBLW - Forested landscape on dunes
LR - Forested landscape on postglacial upland plains
LRZ - Forested landscape with built-up areas on postglacial upland plains
DWL - Landscape of river valleys evidently incised with meadows and woodlots
DL - Landscape of other river valleys with meadows and woodlots
LOW - Landscape of depressions filled with wetlands covered by forest
LLOW - Landscape of depressions filled with wetlands covered by meadows
WP - Postglacial landscape of upland plains with predomination of fields
DP - Landscape of alluvial plains covered by fields
WMPS - Postglacial landscape of upland plains with mosaic of fields and orchards
WMPL - Postglacial landscape of upland plains with mosaic of fields, meadows and woodlots
KL - Landscape of postglacial uplands steep slopes covered by forest
WZ - Postglacial landscape of upland plains with predomination of single family houses with gardens
WZO - Postglacial landscape of upland plains with compact housing estate
WS - Landscape of bottoms of valleys with breeding ponds
Kozubów Landscape Park
A- Plains- Valleys- HillsALL - Forested landscape with deciduous habitats on hills
WRw - Rural landscape with predominance of ribbon-like bands of small arable fields, meadows and pastures on hills/in valleys
WRm - Rural landscape with predomination of agricultural land use mosaic with small plots on hills
WRs - Rural landscape with predominance of agricultural land use mosaic with medium-sized plots on plains
WZ - Rural landscape with predominance of rural built up areas on plains
B- bottoms of river valleys- loess areas with predominantly slightly inclined slopes- varied loess relief locally with outcrops of marl and other carbonate rocks- varied hill relief on marl outcrops and other carbonate rocks- plains of river accumulation - top parts of marl hills covered with loessBWL1 - Varied loess landscape locally with outcrops of marl and others carbonate rocks covered by forest
WL2 - Varied loess landscapes locally with outcrops of marl and other carbonate rocks in agricultural land
M1 - Varied hill landscapes on marl outcrops and other carbonate rocks covered by forest
M3 - Varied hill landscapes on marl outcrops and other carbonate rocks covered by xerothermic meadows
GL2 - Landscape of top parts of marl hills covered with loess covered by agricultural land use mosaic with small-sized plots
L2 - Loess landscapes with predominantly slightly inclined slopes with mosaic of agricultural land with small-sized plots
D2 - Landscape of river valleys bottoms with mosaic agricultural land with small-sized plots
Z1 - Landscapes of river accumulation plains covered by rural settlement
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2020-0003 | Journal eISSN: 2084-6118 | Journal ISSN: 0867-6046
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Language: English
Page range: 42 - 50
Submitted on: Aug 23, 2019
Accepted on: Dec 10, 2019
Published on: Jan 31, 2020
Published by: Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
Relief typology,
landscape conservation,
applied geomorphology,
landscape audit
Related subjects:
Geosciences,
Geography,
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© 2020 Piotr Wałdykowski, Joanna Adamczyk, Agata Cieszewska, published by Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw
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