Passive restoration of vegetation on gravel/sand bars in the city: a case study in Prague, Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00027073:_____/22:N0000046 RIV/60460709:41210/22:91289

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-022-01225-8" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-022-01225-8</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11252-022-01225-8" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11252-022-01225-8</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Passive restoration of vegetation on gravel/sand bars in the city: a case study in Prague, Czech Republic

Original language description

Riparian zones provide many ecosystem services and are a frequently found type of green area in urban ecosystems. These areas increase the aesthetic value of urban landscapes. The aim of this 17-year study was to assess the applicability of passive vegetation restoration of the gravel/sand bars that emerged after a devastating flood along the river in the city of Prague. The number of species and the sum of their coverages rapidly increased for the initial six years. After the twelfth year, the vegetation composition gradually began to stabilize. Species diversity increased for seven years after the beginning of the succession and then remained essentially unchanged. The diversity values were lower on finer substrates with higher proportions of dust and clay particles. The neophytes, i.e. species introduced after the year 1500, established with more successful on substrates with greater soil skeleton proportions. Finer substrates were preferred by graminoids, among them, the invasive Arrhenatherum elatius was the most abundant. The share of invasive species in the total vegetation cover initially fluctuated at approximately 40%, after eight years, it stabilized at approximately 10%. The proportion of naturalized alien species stabilized within the range of 20-30%. The results show that a new type of species-rich vegetation spontaneously emerged on gravel/sand bars. The vegetation consisted mainly of native and naturalized non-invasive alien species. However, attention needs to be given to potential alien plant invasions.

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

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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

Urban Ecosystems

ISSN

1083-8155

e-ISSN

1573-1642

Volume of the periodical

25

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

1265-1277

UT code for WoS article

000779022600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85127579158