Landscape hotspots are defined as areas with the highest landscape diversity, while landscape coldspots are defined as areas with the lowest landscape diversity. In the chapter we determine landscape hotspots and coldspots from five landscape typologies of Slovenia and face them with the landscape hotspots and coldspots, calculated from digital data on relief, rock, and vegetation, which are the most significant elements of the internal structure of Slovenian landscapes and at the same time of their external appearance. One-tenth of Slovenia's surface with the highest landscape diversity was defined as landscape hotspots in both cases. The same applies to the coldspots.
COBISS.SI-ID: 40191789
Based on digital data on relief, rock, and vegetation, the most significant elements of the internal structure of Slovenian landscapes, and their external appearance, a geographic information system was used to calculate landscape diversity of Slovenia. Areas with high landscape diversity are landscape hotspots, and areas with low landscape diversity are landscape coldspots. One-tenth of Slovenia with the highest landscape diversity was defined as landscape hotspots, and one-tenth of Slovenia with the lowest landscape diversity was defined as landscape coldspots. Most landscape hotspots are located in the Alpine part of Slovenia (more than two-thirds of their total area), and most landscape coldspots in the Dinaric part of Slovenia (almost half of their total area).
COBISS.SI-ID: 40331309
In the article we evaluate the differences between all landscape hotspots and coldspots as well as the differences between the ten most extensive landscape hotspots and coldspots according to twenty morphometric indicators. A comparison of the ten largest hotspots and the ten largest coldspots shows that all calibrated coefficients of morphometric indicators at hotspots are greater than at coldspots. Similarly applies to comparing all hot and coldspots. This means that even more analytical indicators confirm that areas of hotspots are more diverse than those of coldspots, which are otherwise determined on the basis of more synthetic indicators, i.e. relief, lithology and vegetation types.
COBISS.SI-ID: 40156205
We analyzed natural heterogeneity of Slovenia. First, we calculated diversity according to different natural landscape elements, then we produced a map showing an average diversity of the area, a map with landscape types and a map with landscape hotspots. The results of the study point out the areas in Slovenia that have greater variety of natural phenomena and processes. The existence of such places has numerous advantages (e.g. attractiveness for tourist visit; availability of different natural resources) and also challenges (e.g. transfer of good practices is not as easy as in monotonous landscapes). At the end we also analyzed the value of diversity for all Slovenian municipalities and ranked them to define the most and the least diverse administrative units with the highest and lowest number of landscape hotspots.
COBISS.SI-ID: 40206637
The first part of the article briefly presents some results of a project that calculated the landscape diversity of Slovenia based on digital data on relief, rock, and vegetation. Areas with high landscape diversity are landscape hotspots, and areas with low landscape diversity are landscape coldspots. The second part of the paper presents landscape classification of an area that is partially marked as a landscape hotspot and partially as a landscape coldspot. Several geoinformation tools were used to determine landscape types in the selected test area, which lies along the contact between the Alpine plain and Alpine mountains about 30 km northwest of Ljubljana.
COBISS.SI-ID: 40800045