Comparing the impact of a grazing regime with European bison versus one with free-ranging cattle on coastal dune vegetation in the Netherlands

Valdés‐Correcher, Elena; Rodríguez, Esther; Kemp, Yvonne J. M.; Wassen, Martin J.; Cromsigt, Joris P. G. M.

doi:10.1007/s13364-018-0373-1

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“…Grazing has been successful in increasing both plant and arthropod diversity on coastal dunes [49,127]. However, domestic grazers may affect the composition (of vegetation) differently than wild grazers [128]. A review of the effects of grazing by domestic livestock showed both positive or negative impact on diversity, often increasing diversity at the landscape level but reducing alpha diversity at the very local scale [19].…”

Section: Implications For Conservation Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Can Vegetation Removal Successfully Restore Coastal Dune Biodiversity?

et al. 2020

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Coastal dune habitats have been declining globally over the last several decades due to rapid urbanization. Within remaining dune systems, dune fixation has resulted in further losses of mobile dunes with negative impacts on their associated species. Some studies suggest vegetation removal can initially promote habitat heterogeneity, and increase availability of suitable habitats for psammophile, xeric and endemic mobile dune species, but longer-term responses are generally unknown. We investigated the temporal trends of four taxonomic groups to determine the effect of vegetation removal on dune assemblages over a 12-year period at an LTER site. Three different forms of removal are investigated here—removal in a grid form on fixed dunes, removal of the wind-facing slope vegetation on semi-fixed dunes and opportunistic off-road driving on disturbed dunes. Results were varied across taxa, highlighting the need for multi-taxa monitoring in conservation and restoration management. Overall, fixed dune treatment had very little effect, while a stronger response was found in semi-fixed treatments in particular for mobile dune indicator species, which showed evidence of recolonization within a few years following treatment. Disturbed dunes were most similar to mobile dunes for animal taxa indicating that pulse removal may not be as effective as continuous press disturbance. Nevertheless, a less destructive form of disturbance such as re-introduction of grazing might be preferable and requires further investigation.

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Section: Implications For Conservation Managementmentioning

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Can Vegetation Removal Successfully Restore Coastal Dune Biodiversity?

et al. 2020

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“…Disentangling trophic relationships is integral to understanding ecosystem functions (Duffy et al, 2007 ). Given the central role that herbivores play in shaping the structure and species diversity of terrestrial ecosystems (Danell et al, 2006 ), reconstructing their diet has practical implications for conservation biology (Shipley et al, 2009 ; Valdés‐Correcher et al, 2018 ). To reconstruct the diet of herbivores, methods such as analysis of browsing signs (Salas & Fuller, 1996 ) and microhistological examinations of plant remains in gut and crop contents (Borchtchevski, 2009 ; Gayot et al, 2004 ; Wegge & Kastdalen, 2008 ) or in faecal samples (González et al, 2012 ; Greve Alsos et al, 1998 ; Iversen et al, 2013 ; Steinheim et al, 2005 ) have traditionally been used.…”

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Metagenomics: A viable tool for reconstructing herbivore diet

Chua

Crampton‐Platt

Lammers

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Molecular Ecology Resources

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“…Until recent historic times, the European bison Bison bonasus L., aurochs Bos primigenius Bojanus, and tarpan horse Equus ferus ferus Boddaert were large grazers (Cromsigt et al 2018 ) living in the ESB with the latter two, wild relatives of domestic cattle and horse, becoming extinct in the seventeenth and the twentieth century, respectively, due to human activity. Grazing by large mammals, both wild and domestic, has kept coastal and inland dune habitats open and sparsely vegetated (Tolksdorf and Kaiser 2012 ; Brunbjerg et al 2014 ; Valdés-Correcher et al 2018 ; Prach et al 2021 ) where conditions would otherwise favour closed canopy forest development. Thus, large mammals may be zoogeomorphic agents responsible for maintaining the dune habitat itself (Butler 1995 ).…”

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Spatially associated or composite life traces from Holocene paleosols and dune sands provide evidence for past biotic interactions

Hsieh

Uchman

2023

Sci Nat

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Biotic interactions (e.g., predation, competition, commensalism) where organisms directly or indirectly influenced one another are of great interest to those studying the history of life but have been difficult to ascertain from fossils. Considering the usual caveats about the temporal resolution of paleontological data, traces and trace fossils in the sedimentary record can record co-occurrences of organisms or their behaviours with relatively high spatial fidelity in a location. Neoichnological studies and studies on recently buried traces, where direct trophic links or other connections between tracemakers are well-known, may help interpret when and where overlapping traces represented true biotic interactions. Examples from Holocene paleosols and other buried continental sediments in Poland include the tight association between mole and earthworm burrows, forming an ichnofabric representing a predator–prey relationship, and that of intersecting insect and root traces demonstrating the impact of trees as both ecosystem engineers and the basis for food chains. Trampling by ungulates, which leaves hoofprints and other sedimentary disturbances, may result in amensal or commensal effects on some biota in the short term and create heterogeneity that later trace-making organisms, such as invertebrate burrowers, can also respond to in turn, though such modified or composite traces may be challenging to interpret.

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Comparing the impact of a grazing regime with European bison versus one with free-ranging cattle on coastal dune vegetation in the Netherlands

Cited by 16 publications

References 39 publications

Can Vegetation Removal Successfully Restore Coastal Dune Biodiversity?

Can Vegetation Removal Successfully Restore Coastal Dune Biodiversity?

Metagenomics: A viable tool for reconstructing herbivore diet

Spatially associated or composite life traces from Holocene paleosols and dune sands provide evidence for past biotic interactions

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