Structure Analysis of Hedgerows with Respect to Perennial Landscape Lines in Two Contrasting French Agricultural Landscapes

Sébastien Da Silva, Florence Le Ber and Claire Lavigne
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Sébastien Da Silva: LORIA, INRIA NGE, Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France & INRA, UR 1115, Plantes et Systèmes de culture Horticoles, Avignon, France
Florence Le Ber: ICUBE, Université de Strasbourg/ENGEES, CNRS, Strasbourg, France
Claire Lavigne: INRA, UR 1115, Plantes et Systèmes de Culture Horticoles, Avignon, France

International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems (IJAEIS), 2014, vol. 5, issue 1, 19-37

Abstract: Characterizing the spatial distribution of hedgerows over landscapes is important for understanding the effects of this distribution on the dynamics of plant and animal populations. Because hedgerows are planted or managed, the authors hypothesized that their distribution depends on the presence of other linear landscape elements, namely, roads and channels. Using proximity analyses, the authors thus assessed how the spatial distribution of hedgerows was impacted by the position of these linear landscape elements and the spatial extent of this impact for two contrasting agricultural landscapes. The results indicate that hedgerows were generally associated at short distances with other elements (100-150 m). Hedgerows had different association patterns depending on their orientation in one of the two landscapes. In that same landscape, within-landscape heterogeneity was related to different association patterns. These results indicate that models of the spatial distribution of hedgerows would gain from being based on the location of roads and channels in the studied landscape.

Date: 2014
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