Environmental impacts by input of substances in landscapes of the District (Bezirk) of Leipzig,Germany

Problems of landscape and resource protection resulting from the intensification of land-use can be mastered only by intersectoral planning and a land management considering (landscape-)ecological principles right from the beginning. In the district of Leipzig ecological studies in the '80ies have focussed on:

1. Determination of the regional pattern of atmospheric immissions;
2. Registration of heavy metals in soil and vegetation;
3. Soil compaction, soil erosion;
4. Study of stress indicators in the aeration zone and in the top-most aquifer in order to examine barrier effects in the percolation process.

First results are discussed.