Analysis of spatiotemporal changes of agricultural land after the Second World War in Czechia

Abstract The term Sudetenland refers to large regions of the former Czechoslovakia that had been dominated by Germans. German population was expelled directly after the Second World War, between 1945 and 1947. Almost three million people left large areas in less than two years. This population chang...

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Autores principales:	Vít Zelinka, Johana Zacharová, Jan Skaloš
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:493c24a442c648e69e0519872794eeac2021-12-02T16:04:26ZAnalysis of spatiotemporal changes of agricultural land after the Second World War in Czechia10.1038/s41598-021-91946-12045-2322https://doaj.org/article/493c24a442c648e69e0519872794eeac2021-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-91946-1https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract The term Sudetenland refers to large regions of the former Czechoslovakia that had been dominated by Germans. German population was expelled directly after the Second World War, between 1945 and 1947. Almost three million people left large areas in less than two years. This population change led to a break in the relationship between the people and the landscape. The aim of the study is to compare the trajectories of these changes in agricultural landscapes in lower and higher altitudes, both in depopulated areas and areas with preserved populations. This study included ten sites in the region of Northern Bohemia in Czechia (18,000 ha in total). Five of these sites represent depopulated areas, and the other five areas where populations remained preserved. Changes in the landscape were assessed through a bi-temporal analysis of land use change by using aerial photograph data from time hoirzons of 2018 and 1953. Land use changes from the 1950s to the present are corroborated in the studied depopulated and preserved areas mainly by the trajectory of agricultural land to forest. The results prove that both population displacement and landscape type are important factors that affect landscape changes, especially in agricultural landscapes.Vít ZelinkaJohana ZacharováJan SkalošNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-15 (2021)
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description	Abstract The term Sudetenland refers to large regions of the former Czechoslovakia that had been dominated by Germans. German population was expelled directly after the Second World War, between 1945 and 1947. Almost three million people left large areas in less than two years. This population change led to a break in the relationship between the people and the landscape. The aim of the study is to compare the trajectories of these changes in agricultural landscapes in lower and higher altitudes, both in depopulated areas and areas with preserved populations. This study included ten sites in the region of Northern Bohemia in Czechia (18,000 ha in total). Five of these sites represent depopulated areas, and the other five areas where populations remained preserved. Changes in the landscape were assessed through a bi-temporal analysis of land use change by using aerial photograph data from time hoirzons of 2018 and 1953. Land use changes from the 1950s to the present are corroborated in the studied depopulated and preserved areas mainly by the trajectory of agricultural land to forest. The results prove that both population displacement and landscape type are important factors that affect landscape changes, especially in agricultural landscapes.
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title	Analysis of spatiotemporal changes of agricultural land after the Second World War in Czechia
title_short	Analysis of spatiotemporal changes of agricultural land after the Second World War in Czechia
title_full	Analysis of spatiotemporal changes of agricultural land after the Second World War in Czechia
title_fullStr	Analysis of spatiotemporal changes of agricultural land after the Second World War in Czechia
title_full_unstemmed	Analysis of spatiotemporal changes of agricultural land after the Second World War in Czechia
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Analysis of spatiotemporal changes of agricultural land after the Second World War in Czechia

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