Three decades of vegetation changes in a submontane grassland after the cessation of intensive fertilization

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F21%3A43903138" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/21:43903138 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/67985939:_____/21:00549834

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.preslia.cz/P212Prach.pdf" target="_blank" >http://www.preslia.cz/P212Prach.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.23855/preslia.2021.169" target="_blank" >10.23855/preslia.2021.169</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Three decades of vegetation changes in a submontane grassland after the cessation of intensive fertilization

Original language description

Mesic semi-natural grasslands have usually been and mostly still are, too intensively managed in central Europe, which includes over application of fertilizer. Consequently, restoration of the structure of this vegetation and its species richness is desirable. We investigated three decades of spontaneous recovery of a submontane grassland (western part of the Czech Republic) after the cessation of two decades of applying 320 kg/ha of nitrogen fertilizer per year. The number of plant species in plots that were previously heavily treated with fertilizer approached the numbers in the controls within five years and in total species composition in approximately two decades. The number of species in both types of plots continued to increase until the end of the second decade and then more or less stabilized. Typical grassland species were mostly responsible for the increase. In the third decade, the parallel trajectories in both types of plots were substantially altered, probably due to a change in climate, which is recorded in the local meteorological data, but the type of vegetation in the grassland remained the same. Effective and low-cost spontaneous recovery of species richness in mesic grasslands in central Europe previously subject to yearly applications of fertilizer may work provided the landscape has not been too much altered by human activity and target species are still present in the surroundings. Under these conditions, no active restoration measures are needed to reduce soil nutrients and sowing seeds of target species is unnecessary.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - 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

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA20-08900S" target="_blank" >GA20-08900S: Restoration of species rich grasslands: Do we miss intraspecific variability in our understanding to community assembly?</a><br>

Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Preslia : časopis České botanické společnosti

ISSN

0032-7786

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

93

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

169-179

UT code for WoS article

000647685400004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85106520553