Original scientific paper
The Influence of Relief and Topoclimatic Characteristics on the Land Use in The Region of the West of Haloze
Igor Žiberna
; Faculty of Education, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
Abstract
The land use in the region is a reflection of natural, as well as historically and economically geographical factors. Among the natural factors in a hilly region, a relief and topoclimatic characteristics play an important role, to which belong those climatic elements, that are modified because of the relief influence. By day this one forms local climate, primarily owing to the influence of inclination and slope exposition, which have influence on a direct solar radiation and herewith on soil and air temperature. By night the influence of relative hight is more important. Owing to the flowing of cold air to the valley grounds they are colder than thermal zone, which appears some ten meters higher. Among the natural factors soft soil and lithological structure are also important. In the contribution we have analyzed the influences of the relief and soft soil types on the land use in the Western Haloze, which is considered to be one of the most interesting hilly regions in the northeastern Slovenia.
Keywords
Haloze; Western Haloze; topoclimate; land use
Hrčak ID:
78227
URI
Publication date:
1.11.2006.
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