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Acta Geographica Slovenica Geografski naslovnica 58-1_naslovnica 49-1.qxd 12.9.2017 7:55 Page 1 8 ACTA GEOGRAPHICA SLOVENICA 1 0 GEOGRAFSKI ZBORNIK 2 • 58-1 2018 1 - ACTA GEOGRAPHICA • 8 5 • Contents GEOGRAFSKI K Milivoj B. Gavrilov, Slobodan B. Marković, Natalija JaNc, I N ZBORNIK Milena Nikolić, aleksandar valJarević, Blaž koMac, R SLOVENICA Matija ZorN, Milan PuNišić†, Nikola Bačević AssessingaverageannualairtemperaturetrendsusingtheMann–KendalltestinKosovo 7 O B Z liza StaNčič, Blaž rePe I Post-firesuccession:SelectedexamplesfromtheKarstregion,southwestSlovenia 27 K S Mirko Grčić, ljiljana Grčić, Mikica SiBiNović F ThegeographicalpositionofthetownofRasabasedonPorphyrogenitusandmedievalmaps 39 A R G O Special issue – Agriculture in modern landscapes: E G A factor hindering or facilitating development? • Nika raZPotNik viSković, Blaž koMac A C Agricultureinmodernlandscapes:Afactorhinderingorfacilitatingdevelopment? 51 I N iwona MarkuSZewSka E ConflictsbetweenlegalpolicyandruralareamanagementinPoland 59 V O L Mojca Foški S The(non)usefulnessoftheRegisterofExistingAgriculturalandForest A LandUseformonitoringtheprocessesinurbanareas 69 C I Maja PoleNšek, Janez PirNat H ForestPatchConnectivity:TheCaseoftheKranj-SoraBasin,Slovenia 83 P A karmen PaŽek, aleš irGolič, Jernej turk, andreja Borec, R Jernej PrišeNk, Matej koleNko, črtomir roZMaN G Multi-criteriaassessmentoflessfavouredareas:A statelevel 97 O E G Miomir M. JovaNović, Miško M. MilaNović, Matija ZorN A TheuseofNDVIandCORINELandCoverdatabasesforforestmanagementinSerbia 109 T C Darijo ilić, Jože PaNJaN A NitrogenandPhosphorusPollutioninGoričkoNaturePark 125 ISSN 1581-6613 9 771581 661010 2018 58 1 naslovnica 58-1_naslovnica 49-1.qxd 12.9.2017 7:55 Page 1 8 ACTA GEOGRAPHICA SLOVENICA 1 0 GEOGRAFSKI ZBORNIK 2 • 58-1 2018 1 - ACTA GEOGRAPHICA • 8 5 • Contents GEOGRAFSKI K Milivoj B. Gavrilov, Slobodan B. Marković, Natalija JaNc, I N ZBORNIK Milena Nikolić, aleksandar valJarević, Blaž koMac, R SLOVENICA Matija ZorN, Milan PuNišić†, Nikola Bačević AssessingaverageannualairtemperaturetrendsusingtheMann–KendalltestinKosovo 7 O B Z liza StaNčič, Blaž rePe I Post-firesuccession:SelectedexamplesfromtheKarstregion,southwestSlovenia 27 K S Mirko Grčić, ljiljana Grčić, Mikica SiBiNović F ThegeographicalpositionofthetownofRasabasedonPorphyrogenitusandmedievalmaps 39 A R G O Special issue – Agriculture in modern landscapes: E G A factor hindering or facilitating development? • Nika raZPotNik viSković, Blaž koMac A C Agricultureinmodernlandscapes:Afactorhinderingorfacilitatingdevelopment? 51 I N iwona MarkuSZewSka E ConflictsbetweenlegalpolicyandruralareamanagementinPoland 59 V O L Mojca Foški S The(non)usefulnessoftheRegisterofExistingAgriculturalandForest A LandUseformonitoringtheprocessesinurbanareas 69 C I Maja PoleNšek, Janez PirNat H ForestPatchConnectivity:TheCaseoftheKranj-SoraBasin,Slovenia 83 P A karmen PaŽek, aleš irGolič, Jernej turk, andreja Borec, R Jernej PrišeNk, Matej koleNko, črtomir roZMaN G Multi-criteriaassessmentoflessfavouredareas:A statelevel 97 O E G Miomir M. JovaNović, Miško M. MilaNović, Matija ZorN A TheuseofNDVIandCORINELandCoverdatabasesforforestmanagementinSerbia 109 T C Darijo ilić, Jože PaNJaN A NitrogenandPhosphorusPollutioninGoričkoNaturePark 125 ISSN 1581-6613 9 771581 661010 2018 58 1 58-1-uvod_00p_uvod49-1.qxd 12.9.2017 7:55 Page 4 ACTA GEOGRAPHICA SLOVENICA 58-1 2018 ISSN: 1581-6613 COBISS: 124775936 UDC/UDK: 91 © Geografski inštitut Antona Melika ZRC SAZU 2018 International editorial board/mednarodni uredniški odbor: Michael Bründl (Switzerland), Rok Ciglič (Slovenia), Matej Gabrovec (Slovenia), Peter Jordan (Austria), Drago Kladnik (Slovenia), Blaž Komac (Slovenia), Andrej Kranjc (Slovenia), Dénes Lóczy (Hungary), Simon McCharty (United Kingdom), Slobodan Marković (Serbia), Milan Orožen Adamič (Slovenija), Drago Perko (Slovenia), Marjan Ravbar (Slovenia), Aleš Smrekar (Slovenia), Annett Steinführer (Germany), Mimi Urbanc (Slovenia), Matija Zorn (Slovenia). Editor-in-Chief/glavni urednik: Blaž Komac; [email protected] Executive editor/odgovorni urednik: Drago Perko; [email protected] Chief editor for physical geography/glavni uredn ik za fizično geografijo: Matija Zorn; [email protected] Chief editor for human geography/glavna urednica za humano geografijo: Mimi Urbanc; [email protected] Chief editor for regional geography/glavni urednik za regionalno geografijo: Drago Kladnik; [email protected] Chief editor for spatial planning/glavni urednik za regionaln o planiranje: Janez Nared; [email protected] Chief editor for urban geography/glavni urednik za urbano geografijo: David Bole; [email protected] Chief editor for geographic information systems/glavni urednik za geografske informacijske sisteme: Rok Ciglič; [email protected] Chief editor for environmental protection/glavni urednik za varstvo okolja: Aleš Smrekar; [email protected] Editorial assistant/uredniški pomočnik: Matjaž Geršič; matjaz.gersic@zrc .sazu Published by/izdajatelj: Geografski inštitut Antona Melika ZRC SAZU Issued by/založnik: Založba ZRC Co-issued by/sozaložnik: Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti Address/Naslov: Geografski inštitut Antona Melika ZRC SAZU, Gosposka ulica 13, SI – 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija The papers are available on-line/prispevki so dostopni na medmrežju: http://ags.zrc-sazu.si (ISSN: 1581–8314) Orderin g/naročanje: Založba ZRC Novi trg 2, p. p. 306, SI – 1001 Ljubljana, Slovenija Phone/telefon: +386 (0)1 470 64 64 Fax/faks: +386 (0)1 425 77 94 E-mail/e-pošta: [email protected] Annual subscription/letna naročnina: 20 € for individuals/za posameznike, 28 € for institutions/za ustanove. Single issue/cena posamezne številke: 12,50 € for individuals/za posameznike, 16 € for institutions/za ustanove. Cartography/kartografij a: Geografski inštitut Antona Melika ZRC SAZU Translations/prevodi: DEKS, d. o. o. DTP/prelom: SYNCOMP, d. o. o. Printed by/tiskarna: Collegium Graphicum d. o. o. Print run/naklada: 400 copies/izvodov The journal is subsidized by the Slovenian Research Agency/revija izhaja s podporo Javne agencije za raziskovalno dejavnost Republike Slovenije. The journal is indexed also in/revija je vključena tudi v: SCIE – Science citation index expanded, Scopus, JCR – Journal Citation Report/Science Edition, ERIH PLUS, GEOBASE Journals, Current geographical publications, EBSCOhost, Geoscience e-Journals, Georef, FRANCIS, SJR (SCImago Journal & Country Rank), OCLC WorldCat, and Google scholar, CrossRef. Front cover photography: Agriculture plays an important role in both protecting and developing farmland and is an importa nt factor facilitating development of other sectors (photograph: Matej Lipar). Fotografija na naslovnici: Kmetijstvo ima pomembno vlogo pri varovanju in razvoju kmetijskih zemljišč in je pomemben dejavnik tudi pri razvoju drugih sektorjev (fotografija: Matej Lipar). 58-1_01p_1309-Milivoj B Gavrilov_acta49-1.qxd 12.9.2017 7:56 Page 7 Acta geographica Slovenica, 58-1, 2018, 7–25 ASSESSING AVERAGE ANNUAL AIR TEMPERATURE TRENDS USING THE MANN–KENDALL TEST IN KOSOVO Milivoj B. Gavrilov, Slobodan B. Marković, Natalija Janc, Milena Nikolić, Aleksandar Valjarević, Blaž Komac, Matija Zorn, Milan Punišić†, Nikola Bačević Temperatures were confirmed to rise in Kosovo in the last decades. 58-1_01p_1309-Milivoj B Gavrilov_acta49-1.qxd 12.9.2017 7:56 Page 8 Assessing average annual air temperature trends using the Mann–Kendall test in Kosovo DOI: https://doi.org/10.3986/AGS.1309 UDC: 911.2:551.524(497.115) COBISS: 1.01 Assessing average annual air temperature trends using the Mann–Kendall test in Kosovo ABSTRACT: The annual trends of surface mean monthly air temperature and monthly extreme temper- atures were analyzed from ten meteorological stations in Kosovo. The data refer to observation periods between 1949 and 1999 for four stations, and observation periods between 1965 and 1999 for the remain- ing six stations. Trends were analyzed for nine time series. Positive trends were found in six series, and negative trends were found in three series. After an assessment of these trends using the Mann–Kendall test, positive trends were confirmed in four series, a negative trend was confirmed in one series, and in one series there was no trend, whereas trends were characterized as slightly positive in two time series and slightly negative in one series. Key wORDS: air temperature trends, climate change, Mann–Kendall test, Kosovo Oce na tren dov pov preč nih let nih tem pe ra tur zra ka na Koso vu z upo ra bo Mann-Ken dal lo ve ga testa POVZeTeK: V ra zi skavi so bili ana li zi ra ni let ni tren di pov preč nih in ekstrem nih meseč nih tem pe ra tur zraka, izmer je nih na dese tih meteo ro loš kih posta jah na Koso vu. Podat ki se pri šti rih posta jah nana ša jo na opazo val no obdob je 1949–1999, pri preo sta lih šestih posta jah pa na opa zo val no obdob je 1965–1999. Tren di so bili ana li zi ra ni za devet časov nih nizov. Pozi tiv ni tren di so bil i ugo tov lje ni v še stih nizih, nega - tiv ni pa v treh. Po oce ni teh tren dov z upo ra bo Mann-Ken dal lo ve ga testa so bili pozi tiv ni tren di potr je ni v šti rih nizih, nega tiv ni trend je bil potr jen v enem nizu, v enem nizu tren da ni bilo, rah lo pozi tiv ni tren - di so bili potrjeni v dveh časov nih nizih in rah lo nega tiv ni v enem nizu. KLJUČNe BeSeDe: tren di tem pe ra tur zra ka, pod neb ne spre mem be, Mann-Ken dal lov test, Koso vo Milivoj B. Gavrilov, Slobodan B. Marković, Nikola Bačević Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi
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