<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The soil production attributes of historical agrarian terraced fields were examined in the Budina cadastral area of the Ostrozky Mountains. This landscape represents a unique sub-mountainous Carpathian landscape with farms that use a historically preserved triple-field agricultural system. We determined the geo-spatial parameters of different types of land cover and terraces using geographic information systems. The soil depth was measured in the field, and the skeleton content was determined in the laboratory. We compared data regarding the potential production capabilities of the soil with data from the national classification of agricultural soils. Our results indicated that the soil productivity attributes improved because the naturally less fertile cambisols were positively affected by terracing and long-term cultivation. We recommend the preservation of traditional agricultural activities in historical terraced fields because these terraces represent valuable features that improve the quality of the landscape.</p></abstract>

The soil production attributes of historical agrarian terraced fields were examined in the Budina cadastral area of the Ostrozky Mountains. This landscape represents a unique sub-mountainous Carpathian landscape with farms that use a historically preserved triple-field agricultural system. We determined the geo-spatial parameters of different types of land cover and terraces using geographic information systems. The soil depth was measured in the field, and the skeleton content was determined in the laboratory. We compared data regarding the potential production capabilities of the soil with data from the national classification of agricultural soils. Our results indicated that the soil productivity attributes improved because the naturally less fertile cambisols were positively affected by terracing and long-term cultivation. We recommend the preservation of traditional agricultural activities in historical terraced fields because these terraces represent valuable features that improve the quality of the landscape.

Modification of the potential production capabilities of agricultural terrace soils due to historical cultivation in the Budina cadastral area, Slovakia

Dept. of Landscape Planning and Design, Faculty of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia

Dept. of Ecology and Environmentalistics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Constantine The Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia

State Nature Conservancy of the Slovak Republic, Zvolen, Slovakia

Dept. of Applied Ecology, Faculty of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia

Moravian Geographical Reports

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The soil production attributes of historical agrarian terraced fields were examined in the Budina cadastral area of the Ostrozky Mountains. This landscape...

Modification of the potential production capabilities of agricultural terrace soils due to historical cultivation in the Budina cadastral area, Slovakia

Published Online: Aug 21, 2015

Page range: 47 - 55

Received: Dec 18, 2014

Accepted: Apr 02, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mgr-2015-0010

Keywords
Traditional land use, cultivated soils, production capability, physical soil attributes, classification of agricultural soils in Slovakia

© Martina Slámová et al.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Modification of the potential production capabilities of agricultural terrace soils due to historical cultivation in the Budina cadastral area, Slovakia

Published Online: Aug 21, 2015

Page range: 47 - 55

Received: Dec 18, 2014

Accepted: Apr 02, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/mgr-2015-0010

KeywordsTraditional land use, cultivated soils, production capability, physical soil attributes, classification of agricultural soils in Slovakia

© Martina Slámová et al.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Traditional land use, cultivated soils, production capability, physical soil attributes, classification of agricultural soils in Slovakia