The importance of soil seed banks for biodiversity restoration in degraded grasslands

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/67985939:_____/24:00598074 RIV/26296080:_____/24:N0000061

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s12224-024-09452-x" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s12224-024-09452-x</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12224-024-09452-x" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12224-024-09452-x</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The importance of soil seed banks for biodiversity restoration in degraded grasslands

Original language description

To effectively restore species and habitat diversity in poorly managed degraded grasslands, it is important to understand the relationship between the soil seed bank and aboveground vegetation. Our study aimed to describe changes in soil seed bank composition compared to aboveground vegetation under two ploughing regimes (annual and single ploughing) of narrow strips on the edges of artificially grassed old fields in Podyjí National Park, the Czech Republic. We used the seed germination method, multivariate analyses and Kruskal-Wallis tests to compare differences in the proportion of species and individual numbers in the soil seed bank based on the origin of species (native species, archaeophytes, neophytes) and their habitat preferences (segetal, ruderal, grassland, endangered species) in two types of grasslands with varying soil moisture content. The highest numbers of individuals were present in annually ploughed dry grasslands whereas single ploughing in mesic grasslands resulted in greater species diversity. Ploughing increased the numbers of seedlings of all groups and promoted archaeophytes, grassland specialists, native species and ruderals in dry grasslands whereas mesic grasslands hosted segetal specialists and neophytes. Threatened plants and invasive species rarely emerged from the soil seed bank. The study also revealed the highest similarity between the soil seed bank and aboveground vegetation in annually ploughed plots. It gradually decreased during vegetation succession in the single ploughed variants. Whereas annual ploughing supported segetal specialists, single ploughing promoted grassland species in dry habitats. Neither type of ploughing can be recommended in mesic grasslands because of the risk of inducing the spread of expansive ruderals or invasive neophytes.

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/TH04030244" target="_blank" >TH04030244: Biodiversity increase and support of ecosystem services in agricultural landscape through alternative management practices in grasslands and pastures</a><br>

Continuities

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

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Folia Geobotanica

ISSN

1211-9520

e-ISSN

1874-9348

Volume of the periodical

59

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

17-37

UT code for WoS article

001276933100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85199591641