It is possible to divide an area in different ways but each typification should have clearly defined scientific starting points, a subject of typification and a clearly defined purpose. The principle characteristic of landscape-ecological typification is the three-level treatment of (cultural) landscapes as an ecological and anthropologic system. As most of our cultural landscapes have developed from a forest natura! matrix as criteria for typifying, we propose the degree of fragmentation of the forest matrix as it is possible to express quantitatively and qualitatively values of (forest) patches. State, tirne and area dynamics of forest patches are, therefore, the principal indicators on which we base the proposed typification. The author proposes that forest patches become the subject of forest inventories as they are direct carriers of forest functions in the landscape and, with their dynamics, they show the changing place (share, role) of the forest in an area.
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