Reintroduction of large herbivores restored plant species richness in abandoned dry temperate grassland

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/67985939:_____/22:00562356

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-022-01225-w" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-022-01225-w</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11258-022-01225-w" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11258-022-01225-w</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Reintroduction of large herbivores restored plant species richness in abandoned dry temperate grassland

Original language description

Naturalistic grazing by large herbivores is an increasingly practiced way of managing habitats with conservational value. It has the potential to restore and enhance biodiversity, creating self-sustainable environments vital for organisms requiring regular disturbances to moderate and/or reverse successional changes. European bison, Exmoor pony, and Tauros cattle were introduced in 2015 to a former military training area in Milovice, Czech Republic. The prevailing vegetation type is a forest-steppe savanna with Bromus erectus-dominated xeric grasslands mixed with deciduous shrubs and trees. After the cessation of military use, the area was abandoned which led to successional changes, including the dominance of tall grasses, litter accumulation, and bush encroachment. In 2017–2021, we monitored grassland vegetation in 30 grazed permanent plots (2 × 2 m) and 5 control plots representative of ungrazed, abandoned vegetation adjacent to the grazed areas. Naturalistic grazing increased species richness and the cover of forbs, while the cover of grasses and legumes was minimally affected. Grazing increased functional diversity of plant community, promoted a compositional change to small statured species and an increased incidence of red-list species. Seven years of continuous grazing increased the conservation value of this forest-steppe vegetation, a habitat type rapidly declining in Europe.n

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

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Plant Ecology

ISSN

1385-0237

e-ISSN

1573-5052

Volume of the periodical

223

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

525-535

UT code for WoS article

000756209600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85124833566