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Classification of global environmental systems according to the level of anthropogenic transformation
Hrdina, Aleš
The topic of the doctoral thesis is the development of a comprehensive classification of global environmental systems based on a geographical synthesis of abiotic, biotic and anthropogenic factors. The dramatic changes in the Earth's natural environment, the noticeable loss of biodiversity and the increasing impact of human activity in many different aspects raise the need for a comprehensive classification that provides an appropriate spatial framework for assessing the impacts of these changes. Several global classifications have been developed in the past, but most of them only work with various natural environmental gradients (especially climate or relief). However, most regions of the world have been so fundamentally affected or even completely transformed by human activity that the omission of anthropogenic factors in comprehensive environmental classifications may lead to erroneous conclusions. For this reason, new global environmental classifications have recently begun to emerge abroad that attempt to deal with anthropogenic changes to the natural environment and include them in a comprehensive assessment. The proposal of a methodology and the actual creation of the classification of global environmental systems based on abiotic gradients, biodiversity distribution and spatial...
Classification of global environmental systems according to the level of anthropogenic transformation
Hrdina, Aleš ; Romportl, Dušan (advisor) ; Boltižiar, Martin (referee) ; Václavík, Tomáš (referee)
The topic of the doctoral thesis is the development of a comprehensive classification of global environmental systems based on a geographical synthesis of abiotic, biotic and anthropogenic factors. The dramatic changes in the Earth's natural environment, the noticeable loss of biodiversity and the increasing impact of human activity in many different aspects raise the need for a comprehensive classification that provides an appropriate spatial framework for assessing the impacts of these changes. Several global classifications have been developed in the past, but most of them only work with various natural environmental gradients (especially climate or relief). However, most regions of the world have been so fundamentally affected or even completely transformed by human activity that the omission of anthropogenic factors in comprehensive environmental classifications may lead to erroneous conclusions. For this reason, new global environmental classifications have recently begun to emerge abroad that attempt to deal with anthropogenic changes to the natural environment and include them in a comprehensive assessment. The proposal of a methodology and the actual creation of the classification of global environmental systems based on abiotic gradients, biodiversity distribution and spatial...

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