slope deformation; flysch landscape; landscape pattern; geodiversity; biodiversity

Slope deformations in the Carpathian area built by flysch formations represent one of the most significant disturbing factors of various genesis and intensity. The effect of sliding is reflected in the forming of specific biotopes. Landslide disturbing patches represent specific areas, namely in the quality of abiotic conditions and in the subsequent postdisturbation succession of geobiocenoses. The impact of slope deformations can be studied on several levels from which basic information is brought by the research on the local level where thorough geoecological and geobiocenological mapping can bring information on the quality and course of a disturbance and the follow-up effect upon biotope. Spatial expansion of slope deformations in the Czech part of the flysch Carpathians is unique even from the point of their influence on the landscape pattern.Research is supported by a project of the Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic No. B301870501.

Slope deformations in the Carpathian area built by flysch formations represent one of the most significant disturbing factors of various genesis and intensity. The effect of sliding is reflected in the forming of specific biotopes. Landslide disturbing patches represent specific areas, namely in the quality of abiotic conditions and in the subsequent postdisturbation succession of geobiocenoses. The impact of slope deformations can be studied on several levels from which basic information is brought by the research on the local level where thorough geoecological and geobiocenological mapping can bring information on the quality and course of a disturbance and the follow-up effect upon biotope. Spatial expansion of slope deformations in the Czech part of the flysch Carpathians is unique even from the point of their influence on the landscape pattern.Research is supported by a project of the Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic No. B301870501.