Understanding the extreme species richness of semi-dry grasslands in east-central Europe: a comparative approach

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/67985939:_____/14:00431696

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Understanding the extreme species richness of semi-dry grasslands in east-central Europe: a comparative approach

Original language description

We report new sites of extremely species-rich semi-dry grasslands in the foothills of the Eastern Carpathians in the south-western Ukraine. Using comparison with other sites with extremely species- rich semi-dry grasslands in the peri-Carpathian region and beyond, we show that these grasslands share many important features, including similar species composition, occurrence of species with disjunct distributions, site conditions, landscape context, long history of human influence and traditional management practice. We suggest that continuity on a large (Pleistocene-Holocene) time scale and regularly practiced management that reduces the asymmetry in competition (typically mowing and absence of fertilizer application) may be the crucial factors responsible for the extremely high local species richness in east-central European semi-dry grasslands. We also suggest that this richness largely originates from an ancient pool of species of Eurasian forest-steppe and hemiboreal forests.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EH - Ecology - communities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GAP504%2F12%2F0649" target="_blank" >GAP504/12/0649: Pollen-based land-cover reconstruction - model testing and its implications for Holocene environmental change studies</a><br>

Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Preslia

ISSN

0032-7786

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

86

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

13-34

UT code for WoS article

000332804600002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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