Nineteenth-century land use shapes the current occurrence of
some plant species, but weakly affects the richness and total
composition of Central European grasslands

J 2025

Nineteenth-century land use shapes the current occurrence of some plant species, but weakly affects the richness and total composition of Central European grasslands

MIDOLO, Gabriele; Hana SKOKANOVA; Adam Thomas CLARK; Marie VYMAZALOVA; Milan CHYTRÝ et. al.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Nineteenth-century land use shapes the current occurrence of some plant species, but weakly affects the richness and total composition of Central European grasslands

Autoři

MIDOLO, Gabriele; Hana SKOKANOVA; Adam Thomas CLARK; Marie VYMAZALOVA; Milan CHYTRÝ; Stefan DULLINGER; Franz ESSL; Jozef SIBIK a Petr KEIL

Vydání

Landscape Ecology, Springer Netherlands, 2025, 0921-2973

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

10511 Environmental sciences

Stát vydavatele

Nizozemské království

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL, URL

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 3.700 v roce 2024

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-024-02016-6

UT WoS

001395589500001

EID Scopus

2-s2.0-85217736217

Klíčová slova anglicky

Bioindication; Disturbance; Ellenberg indicator values; European history; Hemeroby; Historical landscape; Vascular plant

Štítky

14314020, rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 4. 8. 2025 09:44, Mgr. Lucie Jarošová, DiS.

Anotace

V originále

Context Historical land use is thought to have influenced plant community diversity, composition and function through the local persistence of taxa that reflect ecological conditions of the past. Objectives We tested for the effects of historical land use on contemporary plant species richness, composition, and ecological preferences in the grassland vegetation of Central Europe. Methods We analyzed 6975 vegetation plots sampled between 1946 and 2021 in dry, mesic, and wet grasslands in the borderland between Austria, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. Using 1819-1853 military maps, we assigned each plot to a historical land-use category (arable land, forest, grassland, settlement, permanent crop, and water body). We modeled the response of species richness, composition, and plant ecological preferences to the historical land use including contemporary covariates. Results Nineteenth-century land use explained little overall variation in species richness and composition, whereas more variation was explained by contemporary environmental conditions. However, we found that ecological preferences of some species were associated with specific historical land uses. Specifically, species more frequently occurring in historically forested grasslands showed lower light and disturbance frequency indicator values, while those associated with former settlements displayed higher disturbance severity indicator values. Conclusions We conclude that signatures of specific land-use conversions, including the restoration of grasslands in human-impacted areas, may still be detectable in grasslands even 200 years into the future. However, while local historical land use influences the occurrence of some species based on their ecological preferences, these effects do not significantly influence community species richness and total composition.

Citovat

MIDOLO, Gabriele; Hana SKOKANOVA; Adam Thomas CLARK; Marie VYMAZALOVA; Milan CHYTRÝ; Stefan DULLINGER; Franz ESSL; Jozef SIBIK a Petr KEIL. Nineteenth-century land use shapes the current occurrence of some plant species, but weakly affects the richness and total composition of Central European grasslands. Landscape Ecology. Springer Netherlands, 2025, roč. 40, č. 1, s. "22", 18 s. ISSN 0921-2973. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-024-02016-6.

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N2  - Context Historical land use is thought to have influenced plant community diversity, composition and function through the local persistence of taxa that reflect ecological conditions of the past. Objectives We tested for the effects of historical land use on contemporary plant species richness, composition, and ecological preferences in the grassland vegetation of Central Europe. Methods We analyzed 6975 vegetation plots sampled between 1946 and 2021 in dry, mesic, and wet grasslands in the borderland between Austria, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. Using 1819-1853 military maps, we assigned each plot to a historical land-use category (arable land, forest, grassland, settlement, permanent crop, and water body). We modeled the response of species richness, composition, and plant ecological preferences to the historical land use including contemporary covariates. Results Nineteenth-century land use explained little overall variation in species richness and composition, whereas more variation was explained by contemporary environmental conditions. However, we found that ecological preferences of some species were associated with specific historical land uses. Specifically, species more frequently occurring in historically forested grasslands showed lower light and disturbance frequency indicator values, while those associated with former settlements displayed higher disturbance severity indicator values. Conclusions We conclude that signatures of specific land-use conversions, including the restoration of grasslands in human-impacted areas, may still be detectable in grasslands even 200 years into the future. However, while local historical land use influences the occurrence of some species based on their ecological preferences, these effects do not significantly influence community species richness and total composition.
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MIDOLO, Gabriele; Hana SKOKANOVA; Adam Thomas CLARK; Marie VYMAZALOVA; Milan CHYTRÝ; Stefan DULLINGER; Franz ESSL; Jozef SIBIK a Petr KEIL. Nineteenth-century land use shapes the current occurrence of some plant species, but weakly affects the richness and total composition of Central European grasslands. \textit{Landscape Ecology}. Springer Netherlands, 2025, roč.~40, č.~1, s.~''22'', 18 s. ISSN~0921-2973. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-024-02016-6.

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