LAND COVER TYPOLOGY USING GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR ROMANIAN VITICULTURAL LANDSCAPE

Adela Hoble University of Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Horticulture - The Advanced Horticultural Research Institute of Transylvania, 3-5 Manastur St., 400372, Cluj-Napoca
Daniela Popescu University of Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Horticulture - The Advanced Horticultural Research Institute of Transylvania, 3-5 Manastur St., 400372, Cluj-Napoca
Claudiu Bunea University of Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Horticulture - The Advanced Horticultural Research Institute of Transylvania, 3-5 Manastur St., 400372, Cluj-Napoca
Francoise Burel University Rennes 1, UMR CNRS 6553 EcoBio, Campus de Beaulieu, Cedex
Muriel Guernion University Rennes 1, UMR CNRS 6553 EcoBio, Campus de Beaulieu, Cedex
Annegret Nicolai University Rennes 1, UMR CNRS 6553 EcoBio, Campus de Beaulieu, Cedex
Alben Fertil University Rennes 1, UMR CNRS 6553 EcoBio, Campus de Beaulieu, Cedex
Silvia Winter Institute of Integrative Nature Conservation Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna - BOKU
Sophie Kratschmer Institute of Integrative Nature Conservation Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna - BOKU,
Johann Zaller Institute of Zoology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna - BOKU
Gema Guzmán Institute for Sustainable Agriculture – CSIC, Córdoba
Martin Potthoff Centre of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use - CBL, Section Agriculture and the Environment, University of Göttingen

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15835/agrisp.v103i3-4.12860

Keywords: landscape pattern, landscape shape index, landscape diversity index, landscape heterogeneity index, semi-natural elements

Abstract

Viticultural landscapes traditionally consist of a diverse mosaic of different
elements of agricultural and semi-natural ecosystems, providing a variety of ecosystem services. In the context of VineDivers landscape ecology, a landscape buffers of 750 m in diameter were delimited around the centroid of the studied vineyard parcels. The results of landscape mapping are parameters such as percentage of semi-natural elements, mean size of vineyard parcel, and complexity index. In Romania were studied sixteen vineyards ecosystems from Târnave Viticulture Region – Transylvania. Landscape mapping offers a better understanding of spatial information and structural inventory of agroecosystems. Also, it should be possible to study the effects of landscape pattern upon species composition, and biodiversity.

Published

2017-12-10

Issue

Vol. 103 No. 3-4 (2017): AGRICULTURA

Section

Research articles

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