出版社：Institute of Landscape Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
摘要：Changed land use conditions have lead to a significant reduction landscape diversity and degradation of natural resources over the past several decades. One of the important issues nowadays is the definition of landscape indicators that are vehicles for summarizing, simplifying and communicating information about land statement that is of importance to decision-makers. The presumption is that different values or states of an indicator meaningfully represent different states or movements of system conditions so that the indicator can be used for monitoring and/or control purposes. The most important landscape indicators are: (1) stock of different land cover classes (agricultural land, arable land, grassland, forest areas, build-up areas); (2) length and distribution of different edges; (3) number of classes; (4) patch/edge density; (5) diversity indices (Shannon index, Interspersion and Juxtaposition Index); (6) fragmentation indices. Landscape indicators enables to better understand the specific characteristics of sites and the nature of the interaction between land use practices and the environment.
