Vol: 38 Page: 125

Authors:
Dariusz Gozdowski
Barbara Roszkowska-Mądra
Wiesław Mądry

Title:
 Spatial diversity of Podlasie rural communes for environ-mental conditions and agricultural land use

Language: English

Keywords:
multivariate methods
Podlasie province
rural communes diversity
statistical classification

Summary:
This study presents spatial diversity of environmental and economical conditions of 105 communes in Podlasie province. The eight variables which are indicators of environmental and economic conditions were used for the evaluation of regional differentiation. Multivariate statistical methods i.e. principal component analysis (PCA) and hierarchical cluster analysis (Ward’s method) were used for classification of communes into 4 distinct clusters. Among the studied variables percentage of light soils and index of natural condition quality for agriculture were most strongly correlated with PC1, they had the biggest contribution in total spatial variation among the communes.

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