Vegetation based landscape regions

The Multiple Potential Natural Vegetation estimation is highly complex by offering a distribution of potential vegetation type for each spatial unit. Further analyses help to better understand the potential vegetation complexes. One possibility is to search for regions that possess characteristic combination of potential vegetation types, thus synthetizing vegetation type distributions rather than simplifying them to one with the “highest potential”. In this process we delineate geographical area, within which the set of vegetation types is more similar than outside to other regions. Preliminary results are available in Konrád 2019 in Hungarian.

Figure. Preliminary vegetation based landscape regions for Hungary. Results are shown at two resolution regarding levels of region sharpness. EOV refers to the Hungarian National Projection.

Results give insight in landscape potentiality as well as can support applications, e.g. seed transfer zone delineation or landscape character assessments.

References

Konrád KD (2019): A potenciális vegetáció belső hasonlóságviszonyainak elemzési lehetőségei – esettanulmányok. [Analyzing similarity structure of potential vegetation – Case studies]. MSc thesis, University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest, Budapest, Hungary.