Rodzaj użytkowania terenu jako wskaźnik antropogenizacji zlewni i zbiorników wodnych (na przykładzie Wyżyny Śląskiej i jej obrzeży)

Abstract

The aim of the study was to determine the type of land use in the catchment areas of the five water bodies studied and also to attempt to identify the relationship between the type of land use in the catchment and the anthropogenisation of water bodies. The structure (by surface area) of the main forms of land use in the water body catchments studied is as follows: from 0.4 km2 to 10.5 km2 – land covered with water, from 0.03 km2 to 172.0 km2 – urban and industrialised areas, from 1.8 km2 to 127.2 km2 – woodland, and from 0.3 km2 to 232.8 km2 – agricultural land and wasteland. The percentage shares of the main types of land use in the overall catchment area of the water bodies studied are: 1.9–15.9% – land covered with water, 1.2–31.7% – urban and industrialized areas, 21.7–72.2% – woodland, and 10.6–71.9% – agricultural land and wasteland. The main forms of land use in the catchment areas of the water bodies studied are reflected by the diversity of certain physicochemical parameters of the water retained in their basins. There is a relationship between the main forms of land use in the catchments of the water bodies analysed and the anthropogenisation of relief within their basins, but further research would be required to confirm this.