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The landscape perceived as a physiographic complex is a theoretical concept adopted in some Eastern European countries and former USSR states. According to this notion, the landscape is a spatially defined fragment of the geographic sphere, a genetically uniform geo-ecosystem, having definite resource potential and transformed to a certain extent by humans. Pursuant to these ideas, the landscape comprises a mosaic of interlinked, hierarchically organized sub-systems, implying for taxonomic subordination of the phy...