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Dr. Pavel Cudlin
Global Change Research Centre AS CR, Belidla 986/4a, 603 00 Brno, Czech Republic

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Journal article
Published: 30 June 2021 in CATENA
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Land sensitivity to degradation is a spatially varying attribute of local systems that experience rapid changes in socio-ecological conditions. To answer the increasing demand of quantitative risk assessment of land degradation and desertification - taken as a final stage of land degradation - in non-affected countries, our study estimates land sensitivity to degradation in the Czech Republic at 1:10,000 scale using the Environmental Sensitive Area (ESA) framework. Czech land was classified into four sensitivity levels (‘insensitive’, ‘potentially sensitive’, ‘fragile’, and ‘critical’). ‘Fragile’ and ‘critical’ land concentrated in accessible lowlands with intensive agriculture. Climate and vegetation quality contributed the most to land sensitivity to degradation in the country. Low soil quality and land management quality were causes of land sensitivity in few, sparse agricultural districts. A comparison with Mediterranean and South-Eastern European countries indicates that land sensitivity to degradation in the Czech Republic is only slightly lower than in neighbouring, affected countries (sensu UNCCD, Annex IV), with the same acting drivers (agriculture intensification and urban sprawl). In light of climate change, national and regional policies are required to face with the increase of land sensitivity in ‘formally non-affected’ countries of Central-Eastern Europe, taking stock of the ‘Mediterranean’ experience in assessing and managing land sensitivity to degradation.

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Vilém Pechanec; Marcela Prokopová; Luca Salvati; Ondřej Cudlín; Jan Procházka; Pavel Samec; Renata Včeláková; Pavel Cudlín. Moving toward the north: A country-level classification of land sensitivity to degradation in Czech Republic. CATENA 2021, 206, 105567 .

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Vilém Pechanec, Marcela Prokopová, Luca Salvati, Ondřej Cudlín, Jan Procházka, Pavel Samec, Renata Včeláková, Pavel Cudlín. Moving toward the north: A country-level classification of land sensitivity to degradation in Czech Republic. CATENA. 2021; 206 ():105567.

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Vilém Pechanec; Marcela Prokopová; Luca Salvati; Ondřej Cudlín; Jan Procházka; Pavel Samec; Renata Včeláková; Pavel Cudlín. 2021. "Moving toward the north: A country-level classification of land sensitivity to degradation in Czech Republic." CATENA 206, no. : 105567.

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Published: 11 May 2021 in Sustainability
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Global and regional biodiversity loss is caused by several drivers including urban development, land use intensification, overexploitation of natural resources, environmental pollution, and climate change. The main aim of our study was to adapt the GLOBIO3 model to the conditions of the Czech Republic (CR) to assess loss of naturalness and biodiversity vulnerability at the habitat level on a detailed scale across the entire CR. An additional aim was to assess the main drivers affecting the biodiversity of habitat types. The GLOBIO3 model was adapted to CZ-GLOBIO by adapting global to local scales and using habitat quality and naturalness data instead of species occurrence data. The total mean species abundance (MSA) index of habitat quality, calculated from the spatial overlay of the four MSA indicators by our new equation, reached the value 0.62. The total value of MSA for natural and near-natural habitats was found to be affected mainly by infrastructure development and fragmentation. Simultaneously, intensity of land use change and atmospheric nitrogen deposition contributed primarily to the low total value of MSA for distant natural habitats. The CZ-GLOBIO model can be an important tool in political decision making to reduce the impact of the main drivers on habitat biodiversity in the CR.

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Vilém Pechanec; Ondřej Cudlín; Miloš Zapletal; Jan Purkyt; Lenka Štěrbová; Karel Chobot; Elvis Tangwa; Renata Včeláková; Marcela Prokopová; Pavel Cudlín. Assessing Habitat Vulnerability and Loss of Naturalness: Applying the GLOBIO3 Model in the Czech Republic. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5355 .

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Vilém Pechanec, Ondřej Cudlín, Miloš Zapletal, Jan Purkyt, Lenka Štěrbová, Karel Chobot, Elvis Tangwa, Renata Včeláková, Marcela Prokopová, Pavel Cudlín. Assessing Habitat Vulnerability and Loss of Naturalness: Applying the GLOBIO3 Model in the Czech Republic. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (10):5355.

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Vilém Pechanec; Ondřej Cudlín; Miloš Zapletal; Jan Purkyt; Lenka Štěrbová; Karel Chobot; Elvis Tangwa; Renata Včeláková; Marcela Prokopová; Pavel Cudlín. 2021. "Assessing Habitat Vulnerability and Loss of Naturalness: Applying the GLOBIO3 Model in the Czech Republic." Sustainability 13, no. 10: 5355.

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Published: 26 April 2021 in Forests
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Plant distribution is most closely associated with the abiotic environment. The abiotic environment affects plant species’ abundancy unevenly. The asymmetry is further deviated by human interventions. Contrarily, soil properties preserve environmental influences from the anthropogenic perturbations. The study examined the supra-regional similarities of soil effects on plant species’ abundance in temperate forests to determine: (i) spatial relationships between soil property and forest-plant diversity among geographical regions; (ii) whether the spatial dependencies among compared forest-diversity components are influenced by natural forest representation. The spatial dependence was assessed using geographically weighted regression (GWR) of soil properties and plant species abundance from forest stands among 91 biogeographical regions in the Czech Republic (Central Europe). Regional soil properties and plant species abundance were acquired from 7550 national forest inventory plots positioned in a 4 × 4 km grid. The effect of natural forests was assessed using linear regression between the sums of squared GWR residues and protected forest distribution in the regions. Total diversity of forest plants is significantly dependent on soil-group representation. The soil-group effect is more significant than that of bedrock bodies, most of all in biogeographical regions with protected forest representation >50%. Effects of soil chemical properties were not affected by protected forest distribution. Spatial dependency analysis separated biogeographical regions of optimal forest plant diversity from those where inadequate forest-ecosystem diversity should be increased alongside soil diversity.

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Pavel Samec; Jiří Volánek; Miloš Kučera; Pavel Cudlín. Effect of Soil Diversity on Forest Plant Species Abundance: A Case Study from Central-European Highlands. Forests 2021, 12, 534 .

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Pavel Samec, Jiří Volánek, Miloš Kučera, Pavel Cudlín. Effect of Soil Diversity on Forest Plant Species Abundance: A Case Study from Central-European Highlands. Forests. 2021; 12 (5):534.

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Pavel Samec; Jiří Volánek; Miloš Kučera; Pavel Cudlín. 2021. "Effect of Soil Diversity on Forest Plant Species Abundance: A Case Study from Central-European Highlands." Forests 12, no. 5: 534.

Journal article
Published: 12 April 2021 in Climate
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Climate change leverages landscape transformations and exerts variable pressure on natural environments and rural systems. Earlier studies outlined how Mediterranean Europe has become a global hotspot of climate warming and land use change. The present work assumes the olive tree, a typical Mediterranean crop, as a candidate bioclimatic indicator, delineating the latent impact of climate aridity on traditional cropping systems at the northern range of the biogeographical distribution of the olive tree. Since the olive tree follows a well-defined latitude gradient with a progressive decline in both frequency and density moving toward the north, we considered Italy as an appropriate case to investigate how climate change may (directly or indirectly) influence the spatial distribution of this crop. By adopting an exploratory approach grounded in the quali-quantitative analysis of official statistics, the present study investigates long-term changes over time in the spatial distribution of the olive tree surface area in Northern Italy, a region traditionally considered outside the ecological range of the species because of unsuitable climate conditions. Olive tree cultivated areas increased in Northern Italy, especially in flat districts and upland areas, while they decreased in Central and Southern Italy under optimal climate conditions, mostly because of land abandonment. The most intense expansion of the olive tree surface area in Italy was observed in the northern region between 1992 and 2000 and corresponded with the intensification of winter droughts during the late 1980s and the early 1990s and local warming since the mid-1980s. Assuming the intrinsic role of farmers in the expansion of the olive tree into the suboptimal land of Northern Italy, the empirical results of our study suggest how climate aridity and local warming may underlie the shift toward the north in the geographical range of the olive tree in the Mediterranean Basin. We finally discussed the implications of the olive range shift as a part of a possible landscape scenario for a more arid future.

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Jesús Rodrigo-Comino; Rosanna Salvia; Giovanni Quaranta; Pavel Cudlín; Luca Salvati; Antonio Gimenez-Morera. Climate Aridity and the Geographical Shift of Olive Trees in a Mediterranean Northern Region. Climate 2021, 9, 64 .

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Jesús Rodrigo-Comino, Rosanna Salvia, Giovanni Quaranta, Pavel Cudlín, Luca Salvati, Antonio Gimenez-Morera. Climate Aridity and the Geographical Shift of Olive Trees in a Mediterranean Northern Region. Climate. 2021; 9 (4):64.

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Jesús Rodrigo-Comino; Rosanna Salvia; Giovanni Quaranta; Pavel Cudlín; Luca Salvati; Antonio Gimenez-Morera. 2021. "Climate Aridity and the Geographical Shift of Olive Trees in a Mediterranean Northern Region." Climate 9, no. 4: 64.

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Published: 05 April 2021 in Environmental Impact Assessment Review
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Experiencing climate changes and increased human pressure, Mediterranean regions are considered representative hotspots of desertification. However, relatively few studies have been devoted to quantify the individual impact of different factors shaping land sensitivity to desertification in these contexts. Our study contributes to this deserving (positive and normative) issue with a diachronic analysis of the impact of multiple drivers of desertification risk on six indicators of land sensitivity based on the Environmentally Sensitive Area (ESA) approach. Indicators (average and maximum ESA score, coefficient of variation and normalized range in the ESA scores, share of ‘fragile’ and ‘critical’ areas in total landscape) were calculated in 777 rural districts of Italy at three time points (early-1960s, early-1990s, and early-2010s). Multivariate models were used to determine the impact of 12 predictors (climate, soil, vegetation, and land management quality) on each indicator of land sensitivity. Results of the analysis identified two non-redundant dimensions respectively associated with the average level of land sensitivity and its intrinsic variability across space. Impacts of climate and vegetation qualities on the level of land sensitivity were high, decreasing over time, and more intense respectively in Northern and Southern Italy. Impacts of soil and land management qualities were moderate, increasing over time, and involving almost all the country's area. Our study emphasizes the role of context-based measures promoting sustainable land management. The ‘local’ dimension proved to be crucial in any strategy of risk mitigation undertaken at disaggregated spatial scales.

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Gianluca Egidi; Sirio Cividino; Enrico Paris; Adriano Palma; Luca Salvati; Pavel Cudlin. Assessing the impact of multiple drivers of land sensitivity to desertification in a Mediterranean country. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 2021, 89, 106594 .

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Gianluca Egidi, Sirio Cividino, Enrico Paris, Adriano Palma, Luca Salvati, Pavel Cudlin. Assessing the impact of multiple drivers of land sensitivity to desertification in a Mediterranean country. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 2021; 89 ():106594.

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Gianluca Egidi; Sirio Cividino; Enrico Paris; Adriano Palma; Luca Salvati; Pavel Cudlin. 2021. "Assessing the impact of multiple drivers of land sensitivity to desertification in a Mediterranean country." Environmental Impact Assessment Review 89, no. : 106594.

Short communication
Published: 20 March 2021 in Ecological Indicators
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This work provides a multi-scale, multi-temporal assessment of the robustness of 6 indicators of land degradation aggregated at various spatial domains relevant to environmental reporting. Based on the Environmentally Sensitive Area (ESA) approach – widely used for environmental reporting of land degradation in Europe – we tested six indicators including (i) the average ESA score, (ii) the maximum ESA score, (iii) the coefficient of variation in the ESA scores, (iv) the normalized range in the ESA scores, as well as the extent of (v) ‘fragile’ and (vi) ‘critical’ areas based on a standard land classification developed on behalf of the ESA framework. Statistical robustness and intrinsic stability of these indicators were verified at six spatial domains (administrative regions, provinces, elevation belts, homogeneous economic districts, rural districts, municipalities) separately for three time points (early-1960s, early-1990s, and early-2010s). Results of a mixed parametric/non-parametric correlation analysis indicate that pair-wise relationships between indicators were mostly linear. A Principal Component Analysis identified two non-redundant dimensions associated with the average level of land degradation sensitivity and its intrinsic variability over space; indicators resulted to be associated exclusively with one of these two dimensions for all study years. Average level of sensitivity and variability over space provide, together, a comprehensive and statistically robust assessment of land degradation at vastly different planning levels, irrespective of the territorial domain adopted for environmental reporting.

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Samaneh Sadat Nickayin; Giovanni Quaranta; Rosanna Salvia; Sirio Cividino; Pavel Cudlin; Luca Salvati. Reporting land degradation sensitivity through multiple indicators: Does scale matter? Ecological Indicators 2021, 125, 107560 .

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Samaneh Sadat Nickayin, Giovanni Quaranta, Rosanna Salvia, Sirio Cividino, Pavel Cudlin, Luca Salvati. Reporting land degradation sensitivity through multiple indicators: Does scale matter? Ecological Indicators. 2021; 125 ():107560.

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Samaneh Sadat Nickayin; Giovanni Quaranta; Rosanna Salvia; Sirio Cividino; Pavel Cudlin; Luca Salvati. 2021. "Reporting land degradation sensitivity through multiple indicators: Does scale matter?" Ecological Indicators 125, no. : 107560.

Journal article
Published: 26 January 2021 in Forests
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Floodplain forests are considered important forest ecosystems, and providers of ecosystem functions and services. The subject of this research was to assess the level of provision of five selected ecosystem functions (climate regulation and regulation of short water cycle, biomass production, oxygen production, and carbon sequestration) and biodiversity by relevant groups of forest habitats, and their mutual comparison. Assessment of ecosystem functions was performed in biophysical units based on published data, our own research, and expert knowledge. The results showed the high importance of floodplain forests. In the majority of the services that were studied, this habitat reached high values and, in comparison with the other habitats, took one of the leading positions. When comparing the ranking in the provision of individual ecosystem functions per unit area, the best-assessed habitat in all assessed functions was floodplain and wetland forests, followed by ravine forests and beech forests, but the analysis of the rate of ecosystem function provision, related to the total area of interest, showed a different order of values. Understanding the context of the individual ecosystem functions of natural ecosystems and those close to nature, in comparison with anthropogenically altered ecosystems is a suggested route for ecologically and economically balanced landscape decision-making, which may increase the efficiency of nature and landscape protection.

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Vilém Pechanec; Ivo Machar; Helena Kilianová; Pavel Vyvlečka; Josef Seják; Jan Pokorný; Lenka Štěrbová; Marcela Prokopová; Pavel Cudlín. Ranking the Key Forest Habitats in Ecosystem Function Provision: Case Study from Morava River Basin. Forests 2021, 12, 138 .

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Vilém Pechanec, Ivo Machar, Helena Kilianová, Pavel Vyvlečka, Josef Seják, Jan Pokorný, Lenka Štěrbová, Marcela Prokopová, Pavel Cudlín. Ranking the Key Forest Habitats in Ecosystem Function Provision: Case Study from Morava River Basin. Forests. 2021; 12 (2):138.

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Vilém Pechanec; Ivo Machar; Helena Kilianová; Pavel Vyvlečka; Josef Seják; Jan Pokorný; Lenka Štěrbová; Marcela Prokopová; Pavel Cudlín. 2021. "Ranking the Key Forest Habitats in Ecosystem Function Provision: Case Study from Morava River Basin." Forests 12, no. 2: 138.

Journal article
Published: 12 November 2020 in Sustainability
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Domestic gardens supply pollinators with valuable habitats, but the risk of exposure to pesticides has been little investigated. Artificial nesting shelters of a red mason bee species (Osmia bicornis) were placed in two suburban gardens and two commercial fruit orchards to determine the contamination of forage sources by pesticides. Larval pollen provisions were collected from a total of 14 nests. They consisted mainly of pollen from oaks (65–100% weight/sample), Brassicaceae (≤34% w/s) and fruit trees (≤1.6% w/s). Overall, 30 pesticides were detected and each sample contained a mixture of 11–21 pesticide residues. The pesticide residues were significantly lower in garden samples than in orchard samples. The difference was attributed mainly to the abundant fungicides pyrimethanil and boscalid, which were sprayed in fruit orchards and were present on average at 1004 ppb and 648 ppb in orchard samples, respectively. The results suggested that pollinators can benefit from domestic gardens by foraging from floral sources less contaminated by pesticides than in adjacent croplands.

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Martin Šlachta; Tomáš Erban; Alena Votavová; Tomáš Bešta; Michal Skalský; Marta Václavíková; Taťána Halešová; Magda Edwards-Jonášová; Renata Včeláková; Pavel Cudlín. Domestic Gardens Mitigate Risk of Exposure of Pollinators to Pesticides—An Urban-Rural Case Study Using a Red Mason Bee Species for Biomonitoring. Sustainability 2020, 12, 9427 .

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Martin Šlachta, Tomáš Erban, Alena Votavová, Tomáš Bešta, Michal Skalský, Marta Václavíková, Taťána Halešová, Magda Edwards-Jonášová, Renata Včeláková, Pavel Cudlín. Domestic Gardens Mitigate Risk of Exposure of Pollinators to Pesticides—An Urban-Rural Case Study Using a Red Mason Bee Species for Biomonitoring. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (22):9427.

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Martin Šlachta; Tomáš Erban; Alena Votavová; Tomáš Bešta; Michal Skalský; Marta Václavíková; Taťána Halešová; Magda Edwards-Jonášová; Renata Včeláková; Pavel Cudlín. 2020. "Domestic Gardens Mitigate Risk of Exposure of Pollinators to Pesticides—An Urban-Rural Case Study Using a Red Mason Bee Species for Biomonitoring." Sustainability 12, no. 22: 9427.

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Published: 19 September 2020 in Systems
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This study estimates demographic resilience in local socioeconomic systems of Southern Europe using long-term population dynamics. We assume attractive places with a continuously expanding (resident) population as ‘demographically resilient’, and locations experiencing a persistent decline of population as more fragile to external shocks. Based on these premises, a comprehensive assessment of demographic resilience in more than 1000 municipalities along the urban–rural gradient in Greece, a Mediterranean country with marked regional disparities, was carried out between 1961 and 2011. Municipalities were considered representative of homogeneous local communities, especially in rural areas. The results of non-parametric correlations suggest how basic geographical gradients (coastal–inland and urban–rural) have significantly influenced the demographic resilience of Greek municipalities. These findings outline two contrasting spatial patterns that reflect (i) continuous expansion of peri-urban local communities and (ii) a particularly intense rural shrinkage, linking depopulation to land abandonment and scarce accessibility of inland districts. While long-term population growth in Greece has progressively re-shaped the intrinsic divide in urban and rural areas, the traditional gap in central and peripheral districts is still reflected in the spatial polarization between the ‘demographically resilient’, socially dynamic coastal locations and the ‘demographically fragile’ inland, economically marginal places. These results indicate the persistence of a center–periphery model characterizing long-term settlement expansion in Greece, with spatial patterns delineating ‘resilient’ and ‘fragile’ districts based essentially on infrastructures, accessibility, and amenities.

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Andrea Colantoni; Rares Halbac-Cotoara-Zamfir; Cristina Halbac-Cotoara-Zamfir; Pavel Cudlin; Luca Salvati; Antonio Gimenez Morera. Demographic Resilience in Local Systems: An Empirical Approach with Census Data. Systems 2020, 8, 34 .

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Andrea Colantoni, Rares Halbac-Cotoara-Zamfir, Cristina Halbac-Cotoara-Zamfir, Pavel Cudlin, Luca Salvati, Antonio Gimenez Morera. Demographic Resilience in Local Systems: An Empirical Approach with Census Data. Systems. 2020; 8 (3):34.

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Andrea Colantoni; Rares Halbac-Cotoara-Zamfir; Cristina Halbac-Cotoara-Zamfir; Pavel Cudlin; Luca Salvati; Antonio Gimenez Morera. 2020. "Demographic Resilience in Local Systems: An Empirical Approach with Census Data." Systems 8, no. 3: 34.

Commentary
Published: 23 May 2020 in Sustainability
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Land degradation is perceived worldwide as a key process of resource depletion, representing a paradigmatic issue in national and supra-national political agendas for the 21st century in both advanced and emerging economies. Trying to delineate a ‘new lexicon of land degradation’, the present study contributes to a holistic thinking of driving forces in local communities and regional contexts through a refined analysis and discussion of (apparent and latent) factors of land degradation. Rethinking the importance of five notions (time, space, scale, systems, and response) having an intimate linkage with land degradation allows a refined understanding of socio-environmental dynamics and the most appropriate actions to combat (or mitigate) land resource depletion. The conclusions summarize the rationale proposed in this work, and provide a brief outlook on future research addressing land degradation, its drivers and consequences.

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Gianluca Egidi; Luca Salvati; Pavel Cudlin; Rosanna Salvia; Manuela Romagnoli. A New ‘Lexicon’ of Land Degradation: Toward a Holistic Thinking for Complex Socioeconomic Issues. Sustainability 2020, 12, 4285 .

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Gianluca Egidi, Luca Salvati, Pavel Cudlin, Rosanna Salvia, Manuela Romagnoli. A New ‘Lexicon’ of Land Degradation: Toward a Holistic Thinking for Complex Socioeconomic Issues. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (10):4285.

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Gianluca Egidi; Luca Salvati; Pavel Cudlin; Rosanna Salvia; Manuela Romagnoli. 2020. "A New ‘Lexicon’ of Land Degradation: Toward a Holistic Thinking for Complex Socioeconomic Issues." Sustainability 12, no. 10: 4285.

Journal article
Published: 18 April 2020 in Forests
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Recently, increasing attention has been paid to the anthropogenic degradation of the riverbed and its relationship to the ecological status of the adjacent river landscape. The key objective of this research was to determine the extent of the disturbance of the selected small streams and their riparian zone in a study area located in a forest and forest-agricultural landscape in the Czech Republic. The next step was to analyze the mutual relationships between the ecological status of the riparian vegetation and the hydromorphological status of the riverbed. The main working hypothesis considered the good hydromorphological status of the river as reflected in the favorable environmental status of the surrounding riparian habitats and vice versa. It was found in more than 90% of the total length of studied watercourses that the character of linkages between channel morphology and the ecological status of riparian vegetation is directly influenced by anthropogenic activities. An interesting finding is that the degraded streams in lowland sites are often encompassed by natural or close-to-natural habitats. On the contrary, the natural status of the riverbed was found in a significantly forested headwater area, but the riparian habitats did not reach even a close-to-natural status. This paper contributes to clarifying the significance of human impact on the river morphology, reflected in the reduction of connectivity between the terrestrial and fluvial parts of the river landscape. It helps to explore the most important disturbances affecting mutual interactions between the river and the riparian habitats.

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Jiří Jakubínský; Igor Pelíšek; Pavel Cudlín. Linking Hydromorphological Degradation with Environmental Status of Riparian Ecosystems: A Case Study in the Stropnice River Basin, Czech Republic. Forests 2020, 11, 460 .

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Jiří Jakubínský, Igor Pelíšek, Pavel Cudlín. Linking Hydromorphological Degradation with Environmental Status of Riparian Ecosystems: A Case Study in the Stropnice River Basin, Czech Republic. Forests. 2020; 11 (4):460.

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Jiří Jakubínský; Igor Pelíšek; Pavel Cudlín. 2020. "Linking Hydromorphological Degradation with Environmental Status of Riparian Ecosystems: A Case Study in the Stropnice River Basin, Czech Republic." Forests 11, no. 4: 460.

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Published: 04 January 2020 in Sustainability
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The joint impact of human activities and climate change on natural resources lead to biodiversity loss. Therefore, it is important to select protected areas through systematic conservation planning. The present study assessed how representative natural habitats are protected under the nature conservation network, and to identify new—but so far insufficiently—protected areas containing these habitats for sustainable management. We used the Marxan model to select the most valuable insufficiently protected natural habitats in the Czech Republic as a representative example for a conservation strategy for Central–Eastern European environments. We set three conservation targets (25%, 50%, and 75%), defining how much percent area of valuable representative natural habitats should be added to the area of the habitats already included in the Nature Protection Network. To implement these conservation targets it is necessary to preserve 22,932 ha, 72,429, ha and 124,363 ha respectively of the conservation targets occurring in the insufficiently protected areas, and 17,255 ha, 51,620 ha, and 84,993 ha respectively of the conservation features in the areas without protection status. Marxan was revealed to be an appropriate tool to select the most valuable and insufficiently protected natural habitats for sustainable management.

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Ondřej Cudlín; Vilém Pechanec; Jan Purkyt; Karel Chobot; Luca Salvati; Pavel Cudlín. Are Valuable and Representative Natural Habitats Sufficiently Protected? Application of Marxan model in the Czech Republic. Sustainability 2020, 12, 402 .

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Ondřej Cudlín, Vilém Pechanec, Jan Purkyt, Karel Chobot, Luca Salvati, Pavel Cudlín. Are Valuable and Representative Natural Habitats Sufficiently Protected? Application of Marxan model in the Czech Republic. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (1):402.

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Ondřej Cudlín; Vilém Pechanec; Jan Purkyt; Karel Chobot; Luca Salvati; Pavel Cudlín. 2020. "Are Valuable and Representative Natural Habitats Sufficiently Protected? Application of Marxan model in the Czech Republic." Sustainability 12, no. 1: 402.

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Published: 28 August 2019 in Forests
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Ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi importantly influence seedling growth, nutrition, and survival and create an extensive mycelial network interconnecting tree species and enabling resource redistribution. Due to their symbiotic relationship with trees, they are impacted by forest disturbances, which are of increasing relevance due to climate change. The effect of disturbance on seedling colonization and their morphology is still largely unknown. Seedling growth parameters and the ECM fungal assemblage on the roots of Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) H. Karst.) seedlings were assessed in mature spruce forests attacked and destroyed by bark beetle and in a mature non-attacked forest as a reference. We did not detect significant differences in number of ECM species on seedling roots among forest types, but ECM species composition changed; Tylospora fibrillosa (Burt) Donk, Meliniomyces variabilis Hambl. & Sigler, and Phialocephala fortinii C.J.K. Wang & H.E. Wilcox were characteristic species in the forest destroyed by bark beetle, whereas Lactarius, Cortinarius, and Russula were in the mature forest. Forest type further significantly influenced the height, root length, and root collar thickness of seedlings and the proportion of exploration types of mycorrhizae.

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Petra Veselá; Martina Vašutová; Karolína Hofmannová; Magda Edwards-Jonášová; Pavel Cudlín. Ectomycorrhizal Community on Norway Spruce Seedlings Following Bark Beetle Infestation. Forests 2019, 10, 740 .

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Petra Veselá, Martina Vašutová, Karolína Hofmannová, Magda Edwards-Jonášová, Pavel Cudlín. Ectomycorrhizal Community on Norway Spruce Seedlings Following Bark Beetle Infestation. Forests. 2019; 10 (9):740.

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Petra Veselá; Martina Vašutová; Karolína Hofmannová; Magda Edwards-Jonášová; Pavel Cudlín. 2019. "Ectomycorrhizal Community on Norway Spruce Seedlings Following Bark Beetle Infestation." Forests 10, no. 9: 740.

Commentary
Published: 27 August 2019 in Sustainability
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Climate change plays an important role in shaping ecological stability of landscape systems. Increasing weather fluctuations such as droughts threaten the ecological stability of natural and anthropogenic landscapes. Uncertainty exists regarding the validity of traditional landscape assessment schemes under climate change. This commentary debates the main factors that threaten ecological stability, discussing basic approaches to interpret landscape functioning. To address this pivotal issue, the intimate linkage between ecological stability and landscape diversity is explored, considering different approaches to landscape stability assessment. The impact of land-use changes on landscape stability is finally discussed. Assessment methodologies and indicators are reviewed and grouped into homogeneous classes based on a specific nomenclature of stability aspects which include landscape composition, fragmentation and connectivity, thermodynamic and functional issues, biodiversity, soil degradation, and ecological disturbance. By considering land-use change as one of the most important factors underlying climate change, individual components of landscape stability are finally delineated and commented upon. In this regard, specific trajectories of land-use change (including agricultural intensification, land abandonment, and urbanization) are investigated for their effects on ecological stability. A better understanding of land-use impacts on landscape stability is crucial for a better knowledge of processes leading to land degradation.

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Marcela Prokopová; Luca Salvati; Gianluca Egidi; Ondřej Cudlín; Renata Včeláková; Radek Plch; Pavel Cudlín. Envisioning Present and Future Land-Use Change under Varying Ecological Regimes and Their Influence on Landscape Stability. Sustainability 2019, 11, 4654 .

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Marcela Prokopová, Luca Salvati, Gianluca Egidi, Ondřej Cudlín, Renata Včeláková, Radek Plch, Pavel Cudlín. Envisioning Present and Future Land-Use Change under Varying Ecological Regimes and Their Influence on Landscape Stability. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (17):4654.

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Marcela Prokopová; Luca Salvati; Gianluca Egidi; Ondřej Cudlín; Renata Včeláková; Radek Plch; Pavel Cudlín. 2019. "Envisioning Present and Future Land-Use Change under Varying Ecological Regimes and Their Influence on Landscape Stability." Sustainability 11, no. 17: 4654.

Brief report
Published: 05 May 2019 in Agriculture
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Understanding the role of wildfire drivers is essential to implement more effective prevention strategies at the regional scale and to promote specific mitigation actions at the local scale. By considering municipalities as the elementary analysis domain, the present study investigates the spatial distribution of wildfires (1993–2015) in the Valencian Community, a Mediterranean fire-prone area with variable climate regimes, heterogeneous landscapes and increasing human pressure. Assuming that a denser road network increases the probability of wildfire occurrence, results of a quantitative analysis exploring the relationship between spatial location of ignition points and roads were presented. The empirical findings of this study contribute to ascertain the role of roads as a direct (or indirect) cause of wildfires in the Mediterranean region.

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Ilaria Zambon; Artemi Cerdà; Pavel Cudlin; Pere Serra; Silvia Pili; Luca Salvati. Road Network and the Spatial Distribution of Wildfires in the Valencian Community (1993–2015). Agriculture 2019, 9, 100 .

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Ilaria Zambon, Artemi Cerdà, Pavel Cudlin, Pere Serra, Silvia Pili, Luca Salvati. Road Network and the Spatial Distribution of Wildfires in the Valencian Community (1993–2015). Agriculture. 2019; 9 (5):100.

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Ilaria Zambon; Artemi Cerdà; Pavel Cudlin; Pere Serra; Silvia Pili; Luca Salvati. 2019. "Road Network and the Spatial Distribution of Wildfires in the Valencian Community (1993–2015)." Agriculture 9, no. 5: 100.

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Published: 26 February 2019 in Water
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This article deals with the modelling of erosion and accumulation processes in the contemporary cultural landscape of Central Europe. The area of interest is the headwater part of the small stream catchment—the Kopaninský Stream in central Czech Republic. It is an agricultural and forest–agricultural landscape with a relatively rugged topography and riverbed slope, which makes the terrain very vulnerable to water erosion. The main aim of this article is to compare the results of four selected soil erosion and sediment delivery models, which are currently widely used to quantitate the soil erosion and sediment accumulation rates, respectively. The models WaTEM/SEDEM, USPED, InVEST and TerrSet work on several different algorithms. The model outputs are compared in terms of the total volume of eroded and accumulated sediment within the catchment per time unit, and further according to the spatial distribution of sites susceptible to soil loss or sediment accumulation. Although each model is based partly on a specific calculation algorithm and has different data pre-processing requirements, we have achieved relatively comparable results in calculating the average annual soil loss and accumulation. However, each model is distinct in identifying the spatial distribution of specific locations prone to soil loss or accumulation processes.

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Jiří Jakubínský; Vilém Pechanec; Jan Procházka; Pavel Cudlín. Modelling of Soil Erosion and Accumulation in an Agricultural Landscape—A Comparison of Selected Approaches Applied at the Small Stream Basin Level in the Czech Republic. Water 2019, 11, 404 .

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Jiří Jakubínský, Vilém Pechanec, Jan Procházka, Pavel Cudlín. Modelling of Soil Erosion and Accumulation in an Agricultural Landscape—A Comparison of Selected Approaches Applied at the Small Stream Basin Level in the Czech Republic. Water. 2019; 11 (3):404.

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Jiří Jakubínský; Vilém Pechanec; Jan Procházka; Pavel Cudlín. 2019. "Modelling of Soil Erosion and Accumulation in an Agricultural Landscape—A Comparison of Selected Approaches Applied at the Small Stream Basin Level in the Czech Republic." Water 11, no. 3: 404.

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Published: 29 January 2019 in Forests
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Bark beetle infestation is a widespread phenomenon in temperate forests, which are facing significant weather fluctuations accompanying climate change. Fungi play key roles in forest ecosystems as symbionts of ectomycorrhizal trees, decomposers, or parasites, but the effect of severe disturbances on their communities is largely unknown. The responses of soil fungal communities following bark beetle attack were determined using Illumina sequencing of soil samples from 10 microsites in a mature forest not attacked by bark beetle, a forest attacked by bark beetle, a forest destroyed by bark beetle, and a stand where all trees were removed after a windstorm. The proportion of ITS2 sequences assigned to mycorrhizal fungal species decreased with increased intensity of bark beetle attack (from 70 to 15%), whereas the proportion of saprotrophs increased (from 29 to 77%). Differences in the ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungal community was further characterized by a decrease in the sequence proportion of Elaphomyces sp. and Russula sp. and an increase in Piloderma sp., Wilcoxina sp., and Thelephora terrestris. Interestingly, the species composition of the ECM fungal community in the forest one year after removing the windstorm-damaged trees was similar to that of the mature forest, despite the sequence proportion attributed to ECM fungi decreased.

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Petra Veselá; Martina Vašutová; Magda Edwards-Jonášová; Pavel Cudlín. Soil Fungal Community in Norway Spruce Forests under Bark Beetle Attack. Forests 2019, 10, 109 .

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Petra Veselá, Martina Vašutová, Magda Edwards-Jonášová, Pavel Cudlín. Soil Fungal Community in Norway Spruce Forests under Bark Beetle Attack. Forests. 2019; 10 (2):109.

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Petra Veselá; Martina Vašutová; Magda Edwards-Jonášová; Pavel Cudlín. 2019. "Soil Fungal Community in Norway Spruce Forests under Bark Beetle Attack." Forests 10, no. 2: 109.

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Published: 31 December 2018 in iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry
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S. Jurán; M. Edwards-Jonášová; P. Cudlín; M. Zapletal; Ladislav Šigut; J. Grace; O. Urban. Prediction of ozone effects on net ecosystem production of Norway spruce forest. iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry 2018, 11, 743 -750.

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S. Jurán, M. Edwards-Jonášová, P. Cudlín, M. Zapletal, Ladislav Šigut, J. Grace, O. Urban. Prediction of ozone effects on net ecosystem production of Norway spruce forest. iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry. 2018; 11 (6):743-750.

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S. Jurán; M. Edwards-Jonášová; P. Cudlín; M. Zapletal; Ladislav Šigut; J. Grace; O. Urban. 2018. "Prediction of ozone effects on net ecosystem production of Norway spruce forest." iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry 11, no. 6: 743-750.

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Published: 01 September 2018 in Ecological Informatics
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Vilém Pechanec; Jan Purkyt; Antonín Benc; Chukwudi Nwaogu; Lenka Štěrbová; Pavel Cudlín. Modelling of the carbon sequestration and its prediction under climate change. Ecological Informatics 2018, 47, 50 -54.

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Vilém Pechanec, Jan Purkyt, Antonín Benc, Chukwudi Nwaogu, Lenka Štěrbová, Pavel Cudlín. Modelling of the carbon sequestration and its prediction under climate change. Ecological Informatics. 2018; 47 ():50-54.

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Vilém Pechanec; Jan Purkyt; Antonín Benc; Chukwudi Nwaogu; Lenka Štěrbová; Pavel Cudlín. 2018. "Modelling of the carbon sequestration and its prediction under climate change." Ecological Informatics 47, no. : 50-54.

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Published: 17 August 2018 in Sustainability
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Land-use changes in Europe have been influenced by social forces including economic, demographic, political, technological and cultural factors. Contributing to a refined conceptualization of multifaceted processes of landscape transformation in the European continent, the present study proposes an extensive review of land-use trends in Eastern Europe, focusing on past, present and future conditions that may characterize latent drivers of change. Three time periods with a specific institutional, political and socioeconomic context reflecting distinct processes of land-use change were identified including: (i) the rapid transition to a centralized political system since the early 1950s (up to the late 1980s); (ii) a progressive transition from communist regimes to parliamentary democracy in 1989–1990 (up to the early 2000s); and (iii) the subsequent accession of individual countries to the European Union (2004–2007) up to nowadays. The most recent land-use trends are increasingly influenced by European directives on the environment, while national policies continue to shape economic development in member states.

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Marcela Prokopová; Ondřej Cudlín; Renata Včeláková; Szabolcs Lengyel; Luca Salvati; Pavel Cudlín. Latent Drivers of Landscape Transformation in Eastern Europe: Past, Present and Future. Sustainability 2018, 10, 2918 .

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Marcela Prokopová, Ondřej Cudlín, Renata Včeláková, Szabolcs Lengyel, Luca Salvati, Pavel Cudlín. Latent Drivers of Landscape Transformation in Eastern Europe: Past, Present and Future. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (8):2918.

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Marcela Prokopová; Ondřej Cudlín; Renata Včeláková; Szabolcs Lengyel; Luca Salvati; Pavel Cudlín. 2018. "Latent Drivers of Landscape Transformation in Eastern Europe: Past, Present and Future." Sustainability 10, no. 8: 2918.