Human impact on the ecosystems in Trnavská tabuľa Loess Plain (Slovakia)

Year, pages: 1996, 183 - 188

Trnavská tabuľa Loess Plain is a territory where humans have influenced the ecosystems since the Neolilhic period. Thal is why agroecosystems are said to be "natural’ in this countryside. Self-regulative mechanisms that dominated in the process of the evolution of the local original landscape have been strongly influenced, even destroyed. Analysis of historical development of ecosystems plays an important role in an effort to discover the causes of the contemporary ecological problems of landscape instability. The important changes that have basically influenced the biotopes of the area are shown on Fig. 1. After the World War II. the process of collectivization started and nowadays landscape structure has been created. Fig. 2 shows human interference to the structure of biotopes in the recent decades. Every human action have an effect on the living organisms - on the individuals, on population of species or on whole community (Fig. 3).

Mariothová, M. 1996. Human impact on the ecosystems in Trnavská tabuľa Loess Plain (Slovakia). In Geografický časopis, vol. 48, no.2, pp. 183-188. 0016-7193.

Mariothová, M. (1996). Human impact on the ecosystems in Trnavská tabuľa Loess Plain (Slovakia). Geografický časopis, 48(2), 183-188. 0016-7193.

Publisher: Geografický ústav SAV/Institute of Geography of the Slovak Academy of Sciences