THE EXPLICATED CONCEPTION OF THE FOREST-AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM MONITORING OF THE ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKI REGION

Regional Monitoring of Natural Environment 2002, No 3, 17-24

 

THE EXPLICATED CONCEPTION OF THE FOREST-AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM MONITORING OF THE ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKI REGION

 

Marek Jóźwiak, Alojzy Kowalkowski

 

Summary

 

The study presents the developed conception of integrated monitoring carried out in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains since 1993. The investigations are carried out on the area of the so-called White Basin and Świętokrzyski National Park by the Monitoring Station of Świętokrzyska Academy. They include measurements of the basic features of the representative eco habitat in perpendicular section in the system atmosphere (input) – hylosphere – pedosphere (processing) – hydrosphere – lithosphere (output) as well as in the horizontal – micro drainage catchment. In accordance with adopted aims, the measuring programme comprises 6 component elements of the ecosystem: air, vegetation, climate, soils, rainfall and surface waters as well as rocks. These elements are considered in the sense of integrated interactions of environmental components, operating incessantly in time and space. The measuring programme takes into account changes in land use and various symptoms of anthropopression. This will allow in future to estimate in a more comprehensive way the dynamics of processes occurring in forest and agricultural ecosystems. It will also permit to estimate trends, prepare prognoses and determine indicatory values about the state of the natural environment, which will be used for its assessment in the realization of the assumptions of the policy of ecodevelopment on the regional and national levels.