Ecosystems in Slovakia

The authors have prepared a detailed map of Slovakia’s ecosystems, which identifies individual ecosystems and their spatial distribution, status, and selected properties. The impetus for the production of this map is the need of various stakeholders, especially nature protection bodies, forestry management, agricultural management and public administration, for better data on the distribution of ecosystems. The methodology mostly involves using GIS analytical tools to combine datasets on nature protection, forestry, and agriculture which list attributes related to habitat identification. The results can be used for ecosystem services assessment, spatial planning, nature protection analysis, and other related purposes. The spatial precision of the data is determined by that of the field data, which was mostly created at scales between 1:10000 and 1:5000. The data are stored in the form of a geodatabase containing more than 1,000,000 polygons.

研究团队已编制完成斯洛伐克生态系统详细地图，该地图可识别各类独立生态系统及其空间分布、现状与选定属性特征。编制该地图的初衷，在于各类利益相关方——尤其是自然保护机构、林业管理部门、农业管理部门与公共行政机关——对生态系统分布高质量数据的迫切需求。本研究的方法主要采用地理信息系统（Geographic Information System, GIS）分析工具，整合自然保护、林业与农业领域的数据集，这些数据集包含与栖息地识别相关的各类属性信息。该地图成果可用于生态系统服务评估、空间规划、自然保护分析等相关场景。本数据集的空间精度取决于野外实测数据的精度，而该野外数据的制图比例尺多介于1:10000至1:5000之间。数据集以地理数据库（Geodatabase）格式存储，包含超过100万个多边形要素。