different ecologic factors influence on forming, development and sustaining of the plant communities, among which physiographic variables are the most important ones. the aim of this study was to identify forest types and effect of physiographical factors such as sea level height, slope and aspect of the site on quantitative characteristics of forest types in 2nd district of vaz forest with are...

In this analysis, a semi-distributed conceptual runoff model was applied in five basins varying in area between 43 and 195 km, lying in different physiographic regions of Switzerland (lowland, alpine, heavily glaciated high alpine basins) representing various runoff regimes. An objective, labour-intensive optimization procedure was developed and found suitable for deriving optimal parameter val...

Spatio-temporal variability in energy fluxes at the earth’s surface implies spatial and temporal changes in observed Land Surface Temperatures (LST). These fluxes are largely determined by variation in meteorological conditions, surface cover and soil characteristics. Consequently, a change in these parameters will be reflected in a different temporal LST behavior which can be observed by remot...

Key to understanding the implications of climate and land use change on biodiversity and natural resources is to incorporate the physiographic platform on which changes in ecological systems unfold. Here, we advance a detailed classification and high-resolution map of physiography, built by combining landforms and lithology (soil parent material) at multiple spatial scales. We used only relativ...