Functioning of South Moravian Floodplain Forests (Czech Republic) in Forest Environment Subject to Natural and Anthropogenic Change

Table 1

Land use in the Morava River floodplain [5].

	1836		1877		1953		1999*
	km^2	%	km^2	%	km^2	%	km^2	%
Forests	177.2	27.89	168.97	26.58	159.92	25.16	162.23	25.52
Meadows	273.52	43.03	222.61	35.02	179.26	28.20	53.86	8.47
Pastures	28.7	4.51	21.92	3.45	6.95	1.1	0	0.0
Arable land	136.65	21.5	196.78	30.95	235.94	37.11	329.28	51.8
Gardens and orchards	0.85	0.13	4.4	0.69	12.53	1.97	0.47	0.07
Settlements	16.3	2.56	19.36	3.05	38.24	6.01	66.16	10.41
Transport routes	0.39	0.06	0.85	0.13	2.06	0.321	2.24	0.35
Water areas	2.02	0.32	0.81	0.13	0.8	0.13	21.46	3.38
Total	635.7	100	635.7	100	635.7	100	635.7	100

*The data are adopted from project “Restoration of the Ecological Continuum of the Morava River.”