Vegetation changes at oligotrophic grasslands managed for a declining butterfly

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F23%3A00571162" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/23:00571162 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/60076658:12310/23:43906449

Result on the web

<a href="https://natureconservation.pensoft.net/article/90452/download/pdf/828939" target="_blank" >https://natureconservation.pensoft.net/article/90452/download/pdf/828939</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/natureconservation.52.90452" target="_blank" >10.3897/natureconservation.52.90452</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Vegetation changes at oligotrophic grasslands managed for a declining butterfly

Original language description

A selection of sites occupied by the EU-protected marsh fritillary (Euphydryas aurinia) in western Czech Republic were subjected to a vegetation survey 15 years ago and again recently. In the 66 time-replicated 25 m2 plots from 12 sites, representing the diversity of E. aurinia-occupied oligotrophic grasslands in the Slavkovský les Protected Landscape Area (and covering a fifth of the currently-occupied Czech sites), we recorded quantitative representation of vascular plants and mosses. We analysed the data using multivariate ordinations, asking how the vegetation changed between the surveys, how was it affected by the conservation management applied and how it affected occupancy by the butterfly larval nests, the vegetation patterns were interpreted using Ellenberg’s plant indicator values. Between the two surveys, the overall representation of the larval host plant, Succisa pratensis, did not change, tree and herbs layers (both grasses and forbs) increased and the moss layer decreased. Across surveys, the main driver of vascular plants’ species composition was moisture, followed by soil reaction and nitrogen, whereas in mosses, nitrogen was the main factor. The main change between the surveys was the increase of nitrogen accompanied by decreased light, probably due to increase of competitively strong plants. Butterfly occupancy declined at sites with high soil moisture and increased at sites with higher soil reaction. Mowing of moist nitrogen-rich sites, but not drier nitrogen-poor sites, increased occupancy, illustrating the need for context-dependent interventions. All the evidence thus shows that E. aurinia prefers drier, warmer and less acidic conditions within the generally moist acidic grasslands and that ongoing eutrophication represents a potential problem in the future.

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

10619 - Biodiversity conservation

Project

<a href="/en/project/SS01010526" target="_blank" >SS01010526: Mitigation of global climatic change impacts on selected butterfly species of Habitat Directive</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Nature Conservation-Bulgaria

ISSN

1314-6947

e-ISSN

1314-3301

Volume of the periodical

52

Issue of the periodical within the volume

MAR 23

Country of publishing house

BG - BULGARIA

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

23-46

UT code for WoS article

000965297600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85154041664