Vegetation-based landscape regions of Hungary.

Molnár, Csaba and Molnár, Zsolt and Barina, Zoltán and Bauer, Norbert and Biró, Marianna and Csiky, János and Fekete, Gábor and Horváth, András and Király Botond, Gergely and Purger, Dragica and Schmidt, Dávid and Sramkó, Gábor and Bodonczi, L. and Csathó, A. I. and Deák, Á. J. and Harmos, K. and Isépy, I. (2008) Vegetation-based landscape regions of Hungary. ACTA BOTANICA HUNGARICA, 50 (Suppl.). pp. 47-58. ISSN 0236-6495

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Abstract

he first version of the map of the Hungarian vegetation-based landscape regions were prepared at the scale of 1 : 200,000 (1 km or higher resolution). The primary goal of the map was to provide an exact background for the presentation and evaluation of the data of theMÉTA database. Secondly, we intended to give an up-to-date and detailed vegetation-based division of Hungary with a comprehensive nomenclature of the regions. Regions were primarily defined on the basis of their present zonal vegetation, or their dominant extrazonal or edaphic vegetation. Where this was not possible, abiotic factors that influence the potential vegetation, the flora were taken into consideration, thus, political and economical factors were ignored. All region borders were defined by local expert botanists, mainly based on their field knowledge. The map differs in many features from the currently used, country- wide, flora- or geography-based divisions in many features. We consider our map to be temporary (i.e. a work map), and we plan to refine and improve it after 5 years of testing.

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