Bezdězsko – Dokesko. Krajina mezi odolností a stagnací

• Authors: Petr Meduna , Jiří Sádlo

Title variants

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THE REGIONS OF BEZDĚZ AND DOKSY. LANDSCAPE BETWEEN RESISTANCE AND STAGNATION

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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The region of Bezděz / Doksy (North Bohemia, Czech Republic) differs from surrounding cultural landscape by its peculiar biodiversity (including e.g. endemism) which indicates an anomalous natural and cultural history on Holocene level. The paper assesses this area as a relict island of hemiboreal lowland tajga. The sandstone pseudokarst, fens, wildfire cyclic succession in coniferous forests, and soil conditions unsuitable for agriculture are the main influences stabilizing this landscape both against long–term natural changes and human impact. Therefore, standard colonisation strategies (towns and agricultural villages) mostly failed here whereas alternative and „mild“ strategies such as hunting, forestry and fish farming were more successfull.

Keywords

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ARCHAEOLOGY; PALEO–BOTANY; BIODIVERSITY; HISTORY OF SETTLEMENT; BEZDĚZ; DOKSY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Historická geografie (Historical Geography)
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 35
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 147-160

Contributors

author

Petr Meduna

• Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Praha, Letenská 4, 118 01 Praha 1, Czech Republic

author

Jiří Sádlo

• Botanický ústav AV ČR, Zámek 1, 252 43 Průhonice