Plaskalnyy V. Analysis of anthropization extent for physical-geographic regions of Ukraine

The conceptual foundations and the procedure of anthropization extent analysis for Ukrainian landscapes and physical-geographic taxons at zones of mixed and broad-leaved forests and forest-steppe were substantiated, developed and implemented for verification. The procedure is interoperable for all-European and Ukrainian approaches and consists of four procedure components: common-matter, parametric, logic-mathematical and verification-implementation component. The tool of the first procedure's component is interoperable common-matter classified scheme of the landscape anthropization extent depending on the anthropogenic impact extent of land use and/or land cover (LULC) systems. This impact is specified by the corresponding degrees of hemeroby, impact intensity, geoecological positivity / negativity and naturalness of LULC systems. The non-linear parameterized by septiles scale of landscapes' anthropization extent is the tool of the second procedure's component. This scale was developed as a result of the impartial mathematical-statistical summing up for national representative parameterizations of anthropization extent, obtainment of the generalized anthropization indexes' distribution and the quantization of this distribution. The third, logic-mathematical procedure's component operates with the generalized scales of anthropization extent for terrestrial and aqua-terrestrial Ukrainian landscapes. Besides there was constructed, also combined with the parametric procedure's component, the scale with substantiated value ranges of area proportion for geoecological positive and negative LULC systems, called the scale of geoecological situation in land use.