Research, teaching, projecting and service in landscape planning, focused on landscape ecology (particularly landscape pattern changes and land fragmentation), visual resources management and land management questions and issues.
Website of the Land Research Group
THE MOST IMPORTANT PAPERS:
Fanta, V., Šálek, M., Zouhar, J., Sklenicka, P., Storch, D. 2018. Equilibrium dynamics of European pre-industrial populations: the evidence of carrying capacity in human agricultural societies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285 (1871),1-9. Link
Sklenicka, P., Zouhar, J. 2018. Predicting the visual impact of onshore wind farms via landscape indices: A method for objectivizing planning and decision processes. Applied Energy, 209, 445-454. Link
Zárybnická, M., Sklenicka, P., Tryjanowski, P. 2017. A webcast of bird nesting as a state-of-the-art citizen science. PLoS Biology, 15(1). Link
Sklenicka, P. 2016. Classification of farmland ownership fragmentation as a cause of land degradation: A review on typology, consequences, and remedies. Land Use Policy, 57, 694-701. Link
Sklenicka, P., Janovska, V., Salek, M., Vlasak, J., Molnarova, K. 2014. The Farmland Rental Paradox: Extreme land ownership fragmentation as a new form of land degradation. Land Use Policy 38: 587- 593. Link
Sklenicka, P., Šímová, P., Hrdinová, K., Šálek, M. 2014. Changing rural landscapes along the border of Austria and the Czech Republic between 1952 and 2009: Roles of political, socioeconomic and environmental factors. Applied Geography, 47: 89-98. Link
Molnárová, K., Sklenicka, P., Stiborek, J., Svobodová, K., Šálek, M. 2012. Visual preferences for wind turbines: location, numbers and respondent characteristics. Applied Energy, 92: 269-278. Link
Sklenicka, P., Molnárová, K. 2010. Visual perception of habitats adopted for post-mining landscape rehabilitation. Environmental Management, 46: 424-435. Link
Sklenicka, P., Molnárová, K., Brabec, K., Kumble, K., Pittnerová, B., Pixová, K., Šálek, M. 2009. Remnants of medieval field patterns in the Czech Republic: Analysis of driving forces behind their disappearance with special attention to the role of hedgerows. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 129: 465-473. Link
Sklenicka, P., Šálek, M., 2008. Ownership and soil quality as sources of agricultural land fragmentation in highly fragmented ownership patterns. Landscape Ecology, 23: 299-311. Link
Sklenicka, P. 2006. Applying evaluation criteria for the land consolidation effect to three contrasting study areas in the Czech Republic. Land Use Policy, 23: 502-510. Link
Sklenicka, P., Charvátová, E. 2003. Stand continuity - a useful parameter for ecological networks in post-mining landscapes. Ecological Engineering, 20: 287-296. Link
Sklenicka, P., Lhota, T. 2002. Landscape heterogeneity – a quantitative criterion for landscape reconstruction. Landscape and Urban Planning, 58: 147-156. Link