Study on the global climate impacts at the ecosystem level
The carbon cycle is of fundamental importance for the biosphere as it is inseparably connected with the climate, water and nutrient cycles and the biomass production on the land and in the oceans. It is useful to recall that carbon is one of the most important crossroads of the non-living and living world.
Nature Conservation 2009 — 1. 9. 2009 — Special Issue
Biodiversity conservation at the close of modern times
The inhabitants of Europe did not go to bed one evening in the Middle Ages in 1492 to suddenly awaken into the Renaissance the next day; nonetheless, within only a few decades, at the end of the 15thand beginning of the 16thcentury, there was a substantial change in attitudes towards God, society, production, trade over large distances, human migration, the development of cities and landscape perception.
Nature Conservation 2009 — 1. 9. 2009 — Special Issue
Biodiversity and climate change in the European Union
Biodiversity & ecosystem services and climate change are closely linked. The impacts of climate change on biodiversity present new challenges for nature conservation. Adaptation measures will be necessary to ensure the achievement of nature conservation objectives under changing climatic conditions.
Nature Conservation 2009 — 1. 9. 2009 — Special Issue
Biological diversity and climate change
Climate is the weather averaged over a long period of time determined by energy balance, cycles in the atmosphere and in oceans and by land cover patterns. The climate changes are not caused only by natural processes. According to the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20thcentury is very likely (the assessed likelihood, using expert judgement, is over 90 %) due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations.
Nature Conservation 2009 — 1. 9. 2009 — Special Issue
Climate Protection Policy of the Czech Republic
In May of 2009, the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic presented the draft of the document Climate Protection Policy of the Czech Republic(hereinafter the Policy – Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic 2009).
Nature Conservation 2009 — 1. 9. 2009 — Special Issue
Nature and the landscape in the Czech Republic and their adaptation to climate change
In 2004, the Government of the Czech Republic adopted the document entitled National Programme to Abate the Climate Change Impacts in the Czech Republic(Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic 2004).
Nature Conservation 2009 — 1. 9. 2009 — Special Issue
The impact of global climate change on trends in bird numbers in the Czech Republic
The climate has pervasive effects on the distribution of organisms over the Earth (Lomolino et al.2005) and it has recently been found that it also substantially affects changes in the bird numbers over time (Crick 2004, Drent 2006, La Sorte & Thompson 2007).
Nature Conservation 2009 — 1. 9. 2009 — Special Issue
The Na Špičáku Cave
The Na Špičáku Cave is one of the most famous underground karst phenomena of the Jeseníky Karst and one of its two show caves.
Nature Conservation 4/2009 — 31. 8. 2009 — On Nature in the Czech Republic — Print article in pdf
The Landscape Natural Function Restoration Programme
The Landscape Natural Function Restoration Programme (LNFRP), a new national subsidy scheme, has been recently launched.
Nature Conservation 4/2009 — 31. 8. 2009 — Nature and Landscape Management — Print article in pdf
Water Course Restoration, Renaturation and Ecologically Aimed Management
Pursuant to the European Community‘s Water Framework Directive, at present ways how to improve water course morphological state have been sought in the Czech Republic.
Nature Conservation 4/2009 — 31. 8. 2009 — Nature and Landscape Management — Print article in pdf