Ponds and their catchments: size relationships and influence of land use across multiple spatial scales

Novikmec, Milan Ponds and their catchments: size relationships and influence of land use across multiple spatial scales / Milan Novikmec ... [et al.]. -- The information on both the catchment land use and catchment area has the potential to be adopted into the conservation and management of ponds. There have been, however, few attempts to describe the effects of land use acting at various spatial scales on ponds and the studies were restricted to specific categories of ponds. This paper presents a study on 92 ponds distributed over a broad range of environmental conditions in Central Europe. We combined an extensive field survey and a detailed analysis of sediment and water chemistry with GIS-derived data to estimate the relationship between the area of the ponds and the area of their catchments, and to assess the relationship between pond physicochemical conditions and land use across multiple spatial scales. Relating the area of ponds to the area of their catchments, we found a significant positive relationship (r = 0.72). Considering land use effects on pond conditions, catchment-scale land use was the only significant spatial extent

In Hydrobiologia : The International Journal of Aquatic Sciences. -- Dordrecht : Springer, 2016. -- ISSN 0018-8158. -- ISSN 1573-5117. -- Vol. 774, no. 1 (2016), pp. 155-166

1. ponds 2. freshwater wetlands 3. biodiverzita

I. Hamerlík, Ladislav, 1974-
II. Kočický, Dušan
III. Hrivnák, Richard
IV. Kochjarová, Judita
V. Oťaheľová, Helena
VI. Paľove-Balang, Peter
VII. Svitok, Marek
VIII. Hydrobiologia : The International Journal of Aquatic Sciences. -- Vol. 774, no. 1 (2016), pp. 155-166

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