Anthropoecological zoning of farmland as a basis for land adjustment design

A methodology was developed for designing farmland zones with possible utilization in the design of complex land adjustment or in the follow-up activities related to landscape forming and protection. The theory is based on the method of anthropoecological stabilization of landscape. The implementation of the method involves the delimitation of new landscape units within the study territory (AELU-landscape units, Os-objective subsystems, GES-geoecological sites, Geis-indication sites for landscape components monitoring). This was carried out according to earlier methodologies, which were already published, and the spatial and functional projection is computer-aided and digitized. Each landscape unit determined this way contains three basic structures, which are represented in different proportion - natural scientific (P), anthropogenic (AG) and anthropic (AN). The representation of these structures determines the delimitation of four basic zones: Zone A (the most valuable zone from the viewpoint of natural science), Zone B (with the prevalence of biotic and abiotic elements), Zone C (with anthropogenic activities) and Zone D (here the anthropogenic and anthropic structures are dominant). The A-D and A-C zone borders are solved by the proposals of biological, agricultural or technical character in order to achieve complex protection of A and B zones with the aim to strengthen the stability of the territory in question. The proposed methodology has been verified in several territories in the Czech Republic (Sumava Mts-Krivoklatsko area-Novohradsko area). The study presents the results from two model territories, namely the Jenin-Babi catchment and the Osrnce-Sumava catchment, where the methodology was successfully verified.