Current Status, Problems and Prospects of Conservation of Meadow Steppes in the Nizhny Novgorod Region

Bakka, S V; Kiseleva, N Y; Шестакова, А. А.

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“…Changes in open biocenoses (e.g. meadows, steppes, pastures) have been recently observed in many regions of the world [14][15][16][17][18]. The transformation of the vegetation cover has an ever-increasing impact on the ground beetle fauna in the biocenoses which are bioindicators of the ecosystem status [19][20][21][22].…”

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Fauna and Species Diversity of Ground Beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in Meadows

Ruchin¹,

Алексеев²,

Khapugin³

et al. 2021

Entomol. Appl. Sci. Lett.

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The species diversity of ground beetles (Carabidae) was studied in the meadow ecosystems in the center of European Russia (Nizhniy Novgorod region and the Republic of Mordovia). Seventeen localities were studied. All meadow biotopes were divided into four types: dry meadows, dry meadows adjacent to forest shelter-belts, wet floodplain meadows, and floodplain meadows affected by livestock grazing. The highest species diversity was in dry meadows adjacent to forest shelter-belts (65 species) and wet floodplain meadows (62 species). The lowest number of species was in floodplain meadows affected by livestock grazing (24 species). Forty ground beetle species have been identified in dry meadows. Wet floodplain meadows had the highest Shannon's index, and the lowest Simpson index. The ground beetle fauna had high values of the Simpson and Berger-Parker indices in dry meadows. Only two species dominated in dry meadows, while four to seven species dominated in other habitats. According to the Jaccard similarity index, the most similar species composition of ground beetles was in dry meadows and dry meadows adjacent to forest shelter-belts. By reducing the number of species and specimens of ground beetles, trampling has a great effect on the fauna of floodplain meadows affected by livestock grazing.

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Fauna and Species Diversity of Ground Beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in Meadows

Ruchin¹,

Алексеев²,

Khapugin³

et al. 2021

Entomol. Appl. Sci. Lett.

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“…Meadow steppes and watershed oak forests, zonal ecosystems of the forest-steppe zone, are the most strongly transformed and fragmented. The remained fragments of meadow steppes are small islands surrounded by cultivated lands [5,6]. Under these conditions, we can expect a pronounced manifestation of island effects.…”

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Effects of anthropogenic fragmentation on the biodiversity of plants in northern meadow steppes

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The paper is aimed to assess the effect of anthropogenic fragmentation on the biodiversity of plants in northern meadow steppes located in the southeast of the Nizhny Novgorod region. The plants were chosen as a model group. A quantitative analysis of the dependence of the number of species on the area of habitats was carried out according to the data collected at 158 sites of meadow steppes and steppe meadows with a total area of 10752 ha. For each of the meadow steppe and steppe meadows surveyed, the total area, proportion, and area covered with meadow steppe communities proper were determined, and a floristic list was compiled, in which species characteristic of meadow steppes were identified. Totally flora lists 361 species of plants, including 110 steppe species. It is shown that ecological interactions between separate fragments of meadow steppe in the south-east of Nizhny Novgorod region are broken; the remained fragments of meadow steppe are isolated. To conserve biological diversity in the forest-steppe zone, the special measures aimed at the ecological restoration of interactions between meadow steppe fragments is necessary.

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Actual problems of biodiversity conservation in the central Russian Plain forest-steppe

Bakka

Kiseleva

Шестакова

et al. 2021

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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The relevance of the study is determined by the critical state and negative trends in the development of remained fragments of meadow steppe and upland oak forest ecosystems in the Nizhny Novgorod region, located in the center of the Russian Plain. The paper’s aim is to substantiate the activities required to conserve biological diversity on the northern border of the meadow steppes. It targets to assess the current state of endangered ecosystems of the forest-steppe zone of the region, to analyze their role in maintaining species diversity in the Nizhny Novgorod region, to substantiate approaches to the organization of nature management and territorial protection of the forest-steppe nature, ensuring the conservation of biodiversity. We provide the results of perennial surveys of meadow steppes and upland oak forests in 1982 – 2019, and analysis of these ecosystems as habitats for wildlife species listed in the Red Data Book of the Nizhny Novgorod region. Meadow steppes on the northern border of distribution are shown to encompass currently only 0.36% of the former area. Furthermore the modern area of old-growth upland oak forests of the region comprises 0.3% of the former one of broad-leaved forests. We have discovered 33.3% of wildlife species listed in the Red Data Book to associate with the zonal ecosystems remaining in the Nizhny Novgorod forest-steppe; and argued the necessity of a comprehensive solution to the problem of biodiversity conservation in the forest-steppe zone as well. Territorial protection of rare wildlife species and remained fragments of zonal ecosystems should be combined with elements of restorative economic impact. A complete prohibition of economic activities in protected areas is not advisable. The need for special programs for the restoration of certain lost elements of the biological diversity of the forest-steppe is discussed.

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Current Status, Problems and Prospects of Conservation of Meadow Steppes in the Nizhny Novgorod Region

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Fauna and Species Diversity of Ground Beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in Meadows

Fauna and Species Diversity of Ground Beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in Meadows

Effects of anthropogenic fragmentation on the biodiversity of plants in northern meadow steppes

Actual problems of biodiversity conservation in the central Russian Plain forest-steppe

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