Relationships between vegetation and seed bank in sand pits: Effects of different restoration approaches and successional age
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F19%3A43899184" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/19:43899184 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/67985939:_____/19:00509470 RIV/00216208:11310/19:10405381
Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/avsc.12426" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/avsc.12426</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12426" target="_blank" >10.1111/avsc.12426</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Relationships between vegetation and seed bank in sand pits: Effects of different restoration approaches and successional age
Original language description
Questions Our study examined the relationships between the seed bank and above-ground vegetation in spontaneously revegetated and forestry-reclaimed sand pits. We asked the following questions: (a) What is the composition of the seed bank and above-ground vegetation? (b) How do they develop over the course of succession within the two different restoration approaches? (c) What is the representation of target and undesirable species in the seed bank and above-ground vegetation? and (d) Could the seed bank serve as the source for target vegetation restoration? Location Trebon Basin, Czech Republic. Methods Three successional stages and two types of restoration approaches were considered. Bray-Curtis similarity was used for describing the similarity between above-ground vegetation and the seed bank. Representation of target (dry sandy grassland), desirable (woodland, wetland, mesic grassland) and undesirable (synanthropic) species was assessed. Results The type of restoration approach exhibited stronger effects on the above-ground vegetation than on the seed bank. The similarity between the seed bank and above-ground vegetation decreased during succession. Undesirable species formed the dominant species group in the seed bank regardless of successional stage and the type of restoration approach. Target species were represented especially in the above-ground vegetation of young successional stages. Only half of the number of target species appeared in the seed bank in comparison to above-ground vegetation and their number further rapidly decreased in older stages of succession. Conclusions The result showed that the seed bank of sand pits could be considered as a potential resource mainly for synanthropic species, but it cannot serve as the only source for the eventual restoration of the target vegetation of an open sandy dry grassland after potential clearing, once it becomes overgrown by forest. Consequently, maintaining young successional stages is desirable if we wish to support species typical of dry sandy grassland.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10618 - Ecology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-09979S" target="_blank" >GA17-09979S: Factors determining vegetation succession at the country scale</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Applied Vegetation Science
ISSN
1402-2001
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
22
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
282-291
UT code for WoS article
000466383400008
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85062960396