![]() In the current cultural landscape ecotones also have a stabilizing function in a mosaic of cultivated ecosystems. Therefore, its monitoring can be an important tool for detection of various processes, for example the immediate community response to climate change induced due to the increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The occurrence of ecotones also corresponds to the intensity of land use, and also reflects the current state, the indicator of environmental changes, because ecotones are colonized by specific range of plant species that represent areas very sensitive to environmental changes. Complement can be even function as the supporting element of landscape structure, which reinforces the structure and landscape heterogeneity. ![]() Ecotones capture the nutrients, especially nitrogen, chemicals, pesticides, leached and brought in from surrounding areas. It is difficult to perfectly simulate the real world, due to its complexity. We can classify ecotones by various aspects, e.g. The temporal and spatial stability of ecotones contributes to the ecological value of the ecotone community and to the greater value of a landscape. In nature ecotones often function as corridors or barriers enabling or restricting the flow of mass or energy. Spatial relationships within the surrounding environments are of great importance since ecotones are the zones where communities, populations of plants and animals meet, where they compete, create some tension and blend. Some ecotones are temporally stable some may migrate or mutate. During their existence ecotones go through developmental stages which depend primarily on the dynamics of factors in the surrounding environments. They also contribute to soil protection against erosion, etc. Ecotones represent specific ecosystems in a landscape, corridors for the migration of animals or distribution of plants. This can be seen from several viewpoints environmental, biological, economic, historic, aesthetic, etc. Ecotones play a pivotal role in landscape. Ecotones plays EcotonesĮcotones are significant regions of landscape heterogeneity that contain elements, patterns, and processes existing and operating at varying spatial scales. The presentation explores the possible visualization methods for portrayal ecotones based on detection, description and analysis of geographic boundaries of Trkmanka river catchment with respect to cartographical rules and cognitive aspects. Visualization of spatial uncertainty is still challenging topic for cartographic community with many unsolved research questions. The investigation into ecotones enables a better understanding of the causal relationships between certain landscape elements and landscape utilization categories. However, gaining knowledge about ecosystems at the landscape level is often impeded by limitations in collecting comprehensive, representative, as well as accurate data sets. Uncertainty of ecotones in the landscape arises from many sources, including complexities inherent in ecosystems and their disturbance processes. ![]() Their spatial variability and fuzzy character are causing uncertain and problematic handling in GIScience. ![]() Spatial variability of ecotones has resulted in problematic modelling, analysis and visualization of these landscape forms. Ecotones are significant part of almost every landscape structures and have a significant effect on the distribution of species.
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