Land use changes in the last half century and their impact on water retention in the Šumava mountains and foothills (Czech Republic)

Bystřický Václav (), Moravcová Jana (), Polenský Jakub () and Pečenka Jiří ()
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Bystřický Václav: Department of Landscape Management, Agricultural Faculty, University of South Bohemia, Studentská 13, 370 05 Ceske Budejovice, Czechia
Moravcová Jana: Department of Landscape Management, Agricultural Faculty, University of South Bohemia, Studentská 13, 370 05 Ceske Budejovice, Czechia
Polenský Jakub: Department of Landscape Management, Agricultural Faculty, University of South Bohemia, Studentská 13, 370 05 Ceske Budejovic, Czechia
Pečenka Jiří: Department of Landscape Management, Agricultural Faculty, University of South Bohemia, Studentská 13, 370 05 Ceske Budejovice, Czechia

European Countryside, 2017, vol. 9, issue 1, 116-131

Abstract: Changes in land use and runoff characteristics in Otava river basin and its two subcatchment (Volšovka and Vydra) were examined. The goal was to find out how water retention have responded to changes in landscape management in Šumava mountains and foothills since the year 1970. There were two basic levels of changing land use - (a) conversion of arable land with varying intensity at different management of intensive and extensive grassland, (b) deforestation of large areas of indigenous mostly spruce monocultures and their transfer to the shrub and herbaceous vegetation covering the surface with a discontinuous vegetation. Water retention in Šumava mountains is locally reduced due to vulnerability of monoculture spruce forests by natural disasters (windstorms), diseases and pests. A positive effect of current agricultural management in the Šumava foothills on the reduction of direct runoff during intense rainfall was confirmed.

Keywords: land use; water retention; direct runoff; runoff CN; Šumava Mts; využití země; vodní retence; přímý odtok; metoda CN křivek; Šumava (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1515/euco-2017-0007

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