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  • Connectivity as a tool in the prioritization and protection of sub-urban forest patches in landscape conservation planning
    Pirnat, Janez, 1960- ; Hladnik, David
    Urbanisation developmentinfluences surrounding landscape processes, which are reflected by landscape structural patterns. Forest areas are often regarded as a spatial reserve for present and future ... urbanisation needs, while atthe same time they often representthe last remnant of natural environment. In the present research we analysed (1) the change in forest cover in the area of suburban forests of Ljubljana between 1975 and 2012,(2)the connectivity and conservation buffers as one ofthe foundations for the assessment of biodiversity functions. Between 1975 and 2012, all the forests with important cores were subject to clearings for settlement- and agricultural purposes, but clearing usually did not extend beyond forest edges. The real fragmentation occurred during the construction of the highway beltline. In the area of Ljubljana, connectivity changes and connectivity loss in two different time periods are presented by a spatial model based on the Graph Theory which can also be used in spatial planning. Due to the high percentage of forest cover and the favourable distribution of forest patches and cores around the city of Ljubljana, no connection is currently in danger; the weakest link is stretching from the centre of Ljubljana towards the southeast. In the process of evaluating the biodiversity of urban forests, it will be necessary to add connectivity among forest cores as an important index while evaluating the favourable conditions of different habitat types.
    Vir: Landscape and urban planning. - ISSN 0169-2046 (Vol. 153, 2016, str. 129-139)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del
    Leto - 2016
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 4402598

    Povezava(-e):

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2016.05.013
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