There is a significant difference between artificial energy inputs (machine and manual work, depreciation, spare parts, material input as energy input) into managed forests and farming systems (field, meadow, pasture). A selected sample of forest and agricultural lands in the Kočevje region was compared in the study on the basis of differences in artificial energy inputs in 1993. The least amount of these inputs was received by the forests, followed by the pastures and meadows. The fields required the highest artificial energy inputs. Artificial energy inputs as a criterion of landscape typification indicate that the forest is the most economical with regard to energy requirements. Thus, the forest can be viewed as the most important stabilising element of forested landscape.
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