Climate changes can affect both agriculture and forestry in Europe. This study deals with the results of the biogeographical model of predicted climate change impacts on agriculture in the Czech Republic. The results presented can be used to develop strategies for sustainable agriculture management. The model applied is based on the algorithmization of growing ecological conditions of some agricultural crops to the climate conditions of vegetation zones in the study area of the Czech Republic. The model involves a set of a special applications in the GIS. The modelling outputs suggest main trends in changes of climate conditions of vegetation zones of the landscape (gradual shift to higher altitudes and an increase of the area with the climate conditions of lower vegetation zones and a decrease of climate conditions of submontane and montane vegetation zones). These trends are discussed in the frame of sustainable agricultural management practice. The results can be applied not only for regional scenarios of climate change impacts, but also as a support tools for sustainable agriculture strategies on the regional level.
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