Supporting biodiversity by prescribed burning in grasslands â€” A multi-taxa approach (NDA@SZTAKI, Nemzeti Digitális Adattár, National Digital Data Archive)

Supporting biodiversity by prescribed burning in grasslands â€” A multi-taxa approach

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Tartalom:	http://real.mtak.hu/42668/
Archívum:	MTA Könyvtár
Gyûjtemény:	Status = Published Type = Article
Cím:	Supporting biodiversity by prescribed burning in grasslands â€” A multi-taxa approach
Létrehozó:	ValkÃ³, Orsolya DeÃ¡k, BalÃ¡zs Magura, Tibor TÃ¶rÃ¶k, PÃ©ter Kelemen, AndrÃ¡s TÃ³th, Katalin HorvÃ¡th, Roland Nagy, D. DÃ¡vid DebnÃ¡r, Zsuzsanna Zsigrai, GyÃ¶rgy Kapocsi, IstvÃ¡n TÃ³thmÃ©rÃ©sz, BÃ©la
Kiadó:	Elsevier
Dátum:	2016
Téma:	QH540 Ecology / Ã¶kolÃ³gia QK30 Plant ecology. Plant ethology / nÃ¶vÃ©nyÃ¶kolÃ³gia
Tartalmi leírás:	There are contrasting opinions on the use of prescribed burning management in European grasslands. On the one hand, prescribed burning can be effectively used for the management of open landscapes, controlling dominant species, reducing accumulated litter or decreasingwildfire risk. On the other hand burning can have a detrimental impact on grassland biodiversity by supporting competitor grasses and by threatening several rare and endangered species, especially arthropods.We studied the effects of prescribed burning in alkaline grasslands of high conservation interest. Our aim was to test whether dormant-season prescribed burning can be an alternative conservation measure in these grasslands. We selected six sites in East-Hungary: in three sites, a prescribed fire was applied in November 2011, while three sites remained unburnt. We studied the effects of burning on soil characteristics, plant biomass and on the composition of vegetation and arthropod assemblages (isopods, spiders, ground beetles and rove beetles). Soil pH, organic matter, potassium and phosphorous did not change, but soluble salt content increased significantly in the burnt sites. Prescribed burning had several positive effects from the nature conservation viewpoint. Shannon diversity and the number of flowering shoots were higher, and the cover of the dominant grass Festuca pseudovinawas lower in the burnt sites. Graminoid biomasswas lower,while total, green and forb biomasswere higher in the burnt plots compared to the control. The key finding of our study was that prescribed burning did not decrease the abundance and diversity of arthropod taxa. Species-level analyses showed that out of themost abundant invertebrate species, 10were not affected, 1was negatively and 1was positively affected by burning. Moreover, our results suggest that prescribed burning leaving unburnt patches can be a viable management tool in open landscapes, because it supports plant diversity and does not threaten arthropods.
Nyelv:	magyar
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Azonosító:	http://real.mtak.hu/42668/1/Valko-et-al-Stoten-2016%281%29.... ValkÃ³, Orsolya and DeÃ¡k, BalÃ¡zs and Magura, Tibor and TÃ¶rÃ¶k, PÃ©ter and Kelemen, AndrÃ¡s and TÃ³th, Katalin and HorvÃ¡th, Roland and Nagy, D. DÃ¡vid and DebnÃ¡r, Zsuzsanna and Zsigrai, GyÃ¶rgy and Kapocsi, IstvÃ¡n and TÃ³thmÃ©rÃ©sz, BÃ©la (2016) Supporting biodiversity by prescribed burning in grasslands â€” A multi-taxa approach. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT, 572. pp. 1377-1384. ISSN 0048-9697
Kapcsolat:	http://real.mtak.hu/42668/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.01.184 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.01.184