Potential applications of landscape ecological patch-gradient maps in nature conservational landscape planning

There are rather limited opportunities for using the results of landscape ecology in practical natureconservation. The reasonS for this are – at least partly – the different scales and frames of the twofields. For more effective cooperation there is an opportunity for landscape ecology to determinepatch-gradients that are helpful for nature protection in expanding the living space of endangeredspecies via CORINE land use-pattern in mixed use agricultural areas. Such alternative migrationtracks become valuable in places, where landscape ecological corridors and stepping stone places aremissing. The method applies the gradient concept of landscape structure of McGarigal and Cushman(2005). Determination of patch-gradients can be a good background material for settlement- andinfrastructure planning; and for the elaboration of medium- and long term nature protection conceptsor for even general landscape protection strategies as well

Indikátorok az ökológiai táj szerkezet és táj működés jellemzésére = Indices to evaluate the ecological landscape structure and landscape functioning

Similarly to most natural sciences, ecological landscape evalutation endeavours to support its results with more quantitative data. However, objective possibilities to find good indicators for landscape ecological evaluations are obviously problematic. We suggest to use the following indices, warning their limited quantitativness at the same time. Landscape pattern-density, connectedness of the landscape patches, stability of land-use structure and the ecological health-level of landscape patches seem to be appropriate indices to characterise landscape structure

A geográfia időszerűsége

The geography is the science of space and deals with the interactions between natural endowments and social demands. The 150 years old Hungarian Geographical Society exceeded left behind its romantic, discovering era, and today focuses on new fields as geopolitics or geoinformatics