The AA. intend to consider phenomenological as well as statistical thermodynamic landscape models. From maps, the entropy of various landscapes will be calculated according to the two types of models mentioned and conclusions will be drawn regarding
The customary view of the landscape and of landscape processes emphasizes regularity. In this paper, two examples of probabilistic irregularity are presented : 1) the soil-covered landscape as a sample function of a Gaussian field| 2) variable
Zu einigen Problemen der Landschaftsbewertung für die Landschaftsplanung und Landschaftspflege. (On some problems concerning landscape evaluating for the purpose of landscape planning and environmental control)
in the working out of a landscape evaluation procedure. The basic classes of landscape evaluation algorithms are sketched and conclusions on the state of the art are presented.
Appalachian Piedmont landscapes from the Permian to the Holocene in Appalachian geomorphology.
Consideration of the 14,250 km2 of the Maryland and Pennsylvania Piedmont at six different periods of time from the Permian to the Holocene demonstrates that at least three cycles of tectonism/erosion have affected the Piedmont landscape. Each
tectonic episode appears to have resulted in a distinctive landscape.
Soil-landscape relationships in the Udi-Nsukka Plateau, Nigeria
Pedogenic processes are active in the footslope and toeslope positions because of the stability of that portion of the landscape. The pedological processes of clay and iron translocation, colluviation and leaching and the geological processes
of water erosion and lateral movement of particles have interacted leading to the evolution of the landscape.
A study of the soil landscape from a geographical perspective, this volume provides factual and conceptual background information and a description and discussion of laboratory and field methods, including mapping. The soil landscape is the focus
Gestaltung wassergefüllter Solle in der Agrarlandschaft. (Formation of water-filled kettle holes in the rural landscape)
On the basis of field investigations at water-filled hollow moulds (kettle holes) in Ostbrandenburg the density of this landscape element, the function and the efficiency in the rural landscape were analysed. The focus of this investigation lies
in the integration of the kettle holes in the management of the rural landscape concerning ecological aspects which hall be low in costs and expenditure. (HL).
The elaboration of a scheme for a barrage on the river Ourthe occidentale has been for the Laboratoire d'Ecologie Végétale of the University of Louvain the incentive to an ecological landscape study of that forest valley of the Belgian Ardenne
of the landscape sights makes it possible to produce an objective quantification of the landscape as a whole. Reticulate maps provide a valuation over five classes of two major parameters (the landscape observable value and the visual perceptibility frequency
) and their combination into a landscape index. These valuations make it possible to quantify the impact of the projected barrage on two points: the fall in value will reach 50% or more, both for the ecological value of the sport and for the quality and the interest
Changes in the rural landscape and the impact on flora. A retrospective case study using aerial photographs
The A. analyses the changes in the pattern of certain landscape elements, land use types and small biotopes, and to determine how these changes have influenced the occurrence of grassland plant species. This was accomplished by combining
Method of anthropoecological stabilization of landscape and its interpretation
The study deals with the theoretical approach to anthropoecological stabilization of landscape (ASL). It describes a method consisting of four stages including detailed differentiation from the viewpoint of aim, objectives of investigation
Climate related landscapes in world mountains : criteria and map
A variety of criteria are suggested here by which to divide world mountain landscapes into morphoclimatic types. A preliminary map has then been drawn to locate as nearly as is now practicable the various regions of each landscape type. Height
Bodengeographie als geographische Disziplin. Boden als Spiegel der Okologie einer Landschaft. (Soil geography: a geographical topic. Soils as images of landscape ecology)
A catenary approach to the study of gravel layers and tropical landscape morphodynamics
into the contemporary morphodynamics of the study areas, particularly the transfer, storage and removal of materials from the valley systems. Palaeoenvironmental indicators were also found that enable the landscape evolution of this region to be more fully understood.
Dimension and entropy in the soil-covered landscape
is checked against an independent estimate of the dimension with reasonable agreement. The calculation of the K entropy requires that the landscape surface be represented by an homogenous ergodic random field. This condition is satisfied by the tendency
Overflow probability depends on available relief, mean discharge, and especially conduit radius. Growth rate of the underground conduit depends on saturation deficit which thus controls the rate of evolution of the fluvial landscape, through
fluviokarst to holokarst. However, variations of discharge and sedimentation through time can cause dramatic reversion of karst drainage into less mature states. Landscapes experiencing such periodic rejuvenation will have a confused morphology. A functional
definition of landscape may be more objective and pertinent than arbitrary interpretation of form.