Cultural landscapes can host natural and cultural areas. However, often, this distinction is not clear cut the attempts to clarify blur character of landscapes. Vernacular today act as a living legacy, subject transformation, preservation, or abandonment. This study analyses these legacies in order evaluate elements interactions. The research uses GIS with spatial thematic databases heritage ha...

Anthropogenic landscapes are associated with biodiversity loss and large shifts in species composition and traits. These changes predict the identities of winners and losers of future global change, and also reveal which environmental variables drive a taxon's response to land use change. We explored how the biodiversity of native bee species changes across forested, agricultural, and urban lan...

ecological destruction in human-dominated landscapes has significant impacts on environment sustainability internationally. landscape planning can play a role in mitigating the effects of human-related activities. one element of landscape planning involves the analysis of the biological, spatial and social arrangement of areas in an urban environment and identifying characteristics that are und...

Tourism plays an important role in the development of aboriginal towns in Taiwan, and the goal of this study is to explore the impact of tourism on the residents of Wulai, Taipei County, an aboriginal town which for a long time has tourism as its main activity, and the meaning of the changes in their living environment and clashes caused by tourism development on their cultural landscapes. The ...

Approaches to the preservation of natural, cultural and historical heritage are shown on example administrative district. Along with existing list objects natural heritage, it is proposed at regional level identify landscapes, including villages preserved ethnic culture their environment, classify them as sites. Landscape planning capabilities ecological balance zones tourist recreational syste...

Agricultural intensification over the last 60 decades has been linked to decreases in biodiversity and in the breeding populations of several avian species in farmlands. However, agricultural intensification has not affected all species in the same way and transformed landscapes can still provide suitable habitats for species tolerant to some degree of anthropogenic change. Understanding habita...

The loss of natural habitats and their fragmentation by human activities impose a great threat to biodiversity worldwide. As animal populations become restricted to small and fragmented patches of natural habitat, their viability becomes increasingly dependent upon the arrival of emigrants from elsewhere. Dispersal – the movement of animals away from their original habitat – is thus fundamental...