Angelija Buciene

Klaipeda University

The network of streams is one of the most active and dynamic factors reforming the relief and landscape. Together with the global factors of climate formation and trends of neotectonic movement, the streams are naturally and by means of the anthropogenic factor joining or re-joining the catchments the area of which is changeable. The aim of this re...

The 17th international conference „Social Innovations for Sustainable Regional Development”: Klaipėda University. Every year this event brings together scientists and researchers from different countries who study regions and who are able to offer a new theoretical ideas and their practical application in relevant case studies. Conference panels •...

Regional parks in Lithuania preserve the most valuable physical and cultural components of the landscape, NATURA 2000 habitats, etc. They are usually located in natural or semi-natural landscapes of rural areas. These territories, however, have a higher depopulation rate than urbanised districts. Still, conservation priority areas were expected to...

The researchers from Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian economics confirmed that classification of Lithuanian regions by rurality into 5 groups is a more comprehensive method to reveal economic and social differences of the regions than the method used by the government at the present by classifying regions in to the problematic and non-problematic r...

The causal relationship of changes in nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations in the Akmena-Danė River and its largest tributary, the Eketė River, was analysed for the period 1999-2014. Results showed that the annual concentrations of NH4-N and PO4-P significantly decreased in the Eketė River over the research period. NH4-N also significantly decrea...

The participation in Erasmus and Erasmus+ programmes is the most popular form of mobility among the university teachers and other academic staff as well as students. The geographers of Klaipėda University can study in more than 20 universities of different regions of Europe, and the geography of studies expands from year to year. While studying in...

The geography of border regions is not only determined by geopolitical issues, but also by physical factors, cultural traditions, economic activities and demographic change. Twenty-five years ago, the rural landscapes in the Šilutė (Lithuania) and Slavsk (Russia) administrative districts, which are located in the Nemunas river delta area, were domi...

Tyrimui pasirinkta dabartinė Žemaičių Naumiesčio seniūnijos užimama teritorija ir jos kraštovaizdžio komponentai, apžvelgiamas pastarųjų 25–30 metų laikotarpis. Nagrinėjami santykinai natūralūs ir agrariniai-urbanistiniai kraštovaizdžio komponentai, taip pat socialiniai-demografiniai kraštovaizdžio pokyčius lemiantys veiksniai bei jų kaita bėgant l...

There are 33 rural, 18 semi-rural and 9 urban municipalities in Lithuania according to three criterias: 1) part of population living in rural areas; 2) population density and 3) distance of municipality from large towns/cities. Šilutė district municipality together with Rusnė ward has been studied in detail to search the main problems of sustainabl...

Definitions and sets of indicators as wellas approaches on sustainable development are compiled, discussed and evaluated inthis paper. The researched region embraces forfive urban and district municipalities in western Lithuaniaand Latviain the total area of 1393.93 km2. The scheme of steps of assessmentof sustainability with selected sets of indic...

The aim of this research was to compare a few crop management systems in respect of potassium leaching in order to reduce the leaching losses. Research was carried out on an Endocalcari-Endohypogleyic Cambisol (CMg-n-wcan) at the experimental site of Lithuanian Institute of Agriculture (currently - Institute of Agriculture, Lithuanian Research Cent...

The consistent patterns of chemical composition of wet deposits and drainage runoff concentration have been permanently studied in two stationary sites in the Middle Lithuania for the last decades since late 1980s. The results of simultaneous observations presented in this paper show that the concentration of SO-24-S, Mg+2, PO-34-P, NO-3-N, NH+4-N...

The temporal and spatial changes of land use are important while studying the rural landscapes on both the regional-geographical and environmental scales. In the Baltic Sea region with nine countries (including Russian Federation, represented by Kaliningrad oblast, the utilised agricultural land (UAL) makes about 34 % of total region area on the av...

This book (in Lithuanian with English summary) presents scientific achievements of half a century research carried out in Lithuania in one of the most important branches of agronomy science - agrochemistry. The book comprises 14 chapters. In the chapters 1 to 5 the importance of long-term studies is discussed, Lithuanian soils, their properties and...

Two high‐input and two low‐input crop‐management systems, one reference treatment with field crop rotation, and one long‐term moderately treated pasture were studied and compared in respect to nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) flow and balance. The experiment was conducted on tile‐drained plots covered by Endocalcari‐Endohypogleyic Cambisols. The lea...

Two high-input and two low-input crop-management systems, one reference treatment with field crop rotation, and one long-term moderately treated pasture were studied and compared in respect to nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) flow and balance. The experiment was conducted on tile-drained plots covered by Endocalcari-Endohypogleyic Cambisols. The lea...

To determine the effects of low-input agriculture on soil properties, we compared several forms of arable land management in a rotation experiment lasting 8 years on a Cambisol in Lithuania. Conventional arable cropping with applications of inorganic fertilizers increased the potassium (K) status of the soil, but resulted in losses of nitrogen (N)...

Since 1994 Lithuania is engaged in BEAROP—the international study of agriculturally derived runoff of nutrients from the countries round the Baltic Sea, proposed by Swedish scientists. One of the demonstration watersheds chosen for this project, river Graisupis watershed, is located in the agricultural plains region of Middle Lithuania. Crop yield...