Long-term monitoring of the restoration and development of limestone grasslands in north western Germany: Vegetation screening and soil seed bank analysis

Koch, Marcus A.; Scheriau, Charlotte; Schupfner, Martin; Bernhardt, Karl‐Georg

doi:10.1016/j.flora.2010.01.010

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“…The years of recovery was positively correlated with all of vegetation indices and had a close relation with SHDI, RICHNESS, and SC, which indicated that a long recovery period allowed sufficient time for species succession (Lebrija-Trejos, Meave, Poorter, Pérez-García, & Bongers, 2010;Koch, Scheriau, Schupfner, & Bernhardt, 2011). Species succession allows for a high diversity and richness, enabling the structure of the plant community to return to near its original state.…”

Section: Effects Of the Engineering Methods On Vegetation Recoverymentioning

confidence: 81%

The vegetation recovery pattern and affecting factors after pipeline disturbance in northwest China

Xiao

Shi

Wang

et al. 2016

Journal for Nature Conservation

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a b s t r a c tPipeline construction has severe disturbance on local ecosystems, especially in arid and semi-arid regions. Vegetation recovery along the pipeline is crucial for ecosystem management and eco-environment restoration. In this study, three typical regions with different backgrounds and engineering characteristics in northwest China were selected to analyze vegetation recovery pattern after pipeline disturbance by using comparative analysis and RDA analysis. The results showed that vegetation condition in the zone 10 m from the pipeline was worse than construction area above the pipeline, and was identified as a key area in which vegetation restoration needs to occur. Rainfall and total sunshine duration were found to be key factors affecting vegetation recovery. Additionally, recovery duration also played important roles in vegetation recovery. The affecting factors can be divided into two categories: environmental factors; and, engineering factors. Environmental factors contribute more to the differences of vegetation in different regions, while the engineering factors may play a more important role in relation to vegetation recovery within a region. In general, the effects of pipeline construction on vegetation pattern were confined to 300 m from the pipeline based on this study. However, artificial measures may hasten the vegetation recovery process. This research could provide scientific guidance for ecological restoration and environmental management for the construction of linear projects.

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Section: Effects Of the Engineering Methods On Vegetation Recoverymentioning

confidence: 81%

The vegetation recovery pattern and affecting factors after pipeline disturbance in northwest China

Xiao

Shi

Wang

et al. 2016

Journal for Nature Conservation

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“…Experiments in Western Europe and in the area studied have shown that although grazing or mowing is enough to keep this species at low density (Bąba, 2003(Bąba, , 2004Bobbink and Willems, 1987;Farmer and Baxter, 1998) the restoration of species diversity of calcareous grasslands depends mainly on the local species pool (Koch et al, 2011;Pärtel and Zobel, 1999) and on the soil seed bank, which is usually poor under a dense sward of B. pinnatum (Bąba and Kompała-Bąba, 2005;Stampfli and Zeiter, 1999). Besides measures to limit the dominance of B. pinnatum, success in restoring calcareous grasslands from monodominant stands depends on sowing local ecotypes of calcareous grassland species to enrich the local flora (Pywell et al, 2002).…”

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confidence: 99%

Genetic diversity of the expansive grass Brachypodium pinnatum in a changing landscape: Effect of habitat age

Bąba

Kurowska

Kompała‐Bąba

et al. 2012

Flora - Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

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“…Caixinhas et al, 1993), grasslands (e.g. Funes et al, 2003;Koch et al, 2011), semi-arid rangeland (Solomon et al, 2006), alpine meadows (Ma et al, 2010), salt marshes (Erfanzadeh et al, 2010) and the lower ranges of the Hyrcanian forest (Esmailzadeh et al, 2011). This low similarity indicates that the contribution of the dominant species to the formation of the soil seed bank is of minor importance.…”

Section: The Relationship Between the Soil Seed Bank And Above-groundmentioning

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“…Seed banks have high temporal (successional) and spatial variability, with conspicuous changes in density and composition (Perera, 2005;Ma et al, 2010;Erfanzadeh et al, 2010;Koch et al, 2011). Soil seed banks have vertical and horizontal distribution.…”

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Comparison of soil seed banks of habitats distributed along an altitudinal gradient in northern Iran

Erfanzadeh

Kahnuj

Azarnivand

et al. 2013

Flora - Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

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In this study we investigated the variations in soil seed banks along an altitudinal gradient in the Alborz Mountains, Iran, covering three habitats from lower to upper altitudes: forest, forest-subalpine grassland ecotone and subalpine meadow. In each habitat from 1850 to 2400 m, 20 quadrats were established along four transects, and the above-ground vegetation and the germinable seed banks were determined. Results show that the similarity between seed bank and vegetation was lowest in the ecotone located at intermediate altitudes.Together with the contrasting highest density and species diversity of seeds at these altitudes, the ecotonal role of this habitat was confirmed.We found evidence that lower altitudes could act as storage for seeds of some species growing at higher altitudes; the role of the ecotone was more prominent as a reserve for the meadow plant seeds than the role of the forest as a reserve for seeds of the meadow and ecotone habitats. Soil seed banks, particularly from the ecotone, can be used for restoring vegetation in some degraded sites.

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Long-term monitoring of the restoration and development of limestone grasslands in north western Germany: Vegetation screening and soil seed bank analysis

Cited by 20 publications

References 23 publications

The vegetation recovery pattern and affecting factors after pipeline disturbance in northwest China

The vegetation recovery pattern and affecting factors after pipeline disturbance in northwest China

Genetic diversity of the expansive grass Brachypodium pinnatum in a changing landscape: Effect of habitat age

Comparison of soil seed banks of habitats distributed along an altitudinal gradient in northern Iran

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