Vegetation remains, specialist species fade: changes in
Pannonian sand grasslands

J 2025

Vegetation remains, specialist species fade: changes in Pannonian sand grasslands

FRIESOVÁ, Klára; Irena AXMANOVÁ; Dariia BOROVYK; Mirjana ĆUK; Branislav KOPČAN et al.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Vegetation remains, specialist species fade: changes in Pannonian sand grasslands

Autoři

FRIESOVÁ, Klára; Irena AXMANOVÁ; Dariia BOROVYK; Mirjana ĆUK; Branislav KOPČAN; Milan VALACHOVIC; Adam T CLARK a Milan CHYTRÝ

Vydání

PRESLIA, CZECH BOTANICAL SOC, 2025, 0032-7786

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

10611 Plant sciences, botany

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 2.900 v roce 2024

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Ano

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

abandonment; alien species; eutrophication; sand grassland; sand vegetation; vascular plants; vegetation change; vegetation resurvey

Štítky

14314020, rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 11. 2. 2026 11:08, Mgr. Marie Novosadová Šípková, DiS.

Anotace

V originále

Inland sand grasslands are highly threatened habitats in central Europe and the Pannonian biogeographical region. They harbour several specialized and threatened species adapted to the dry, nutrient-poor conditions of sandy soils. The area of these grasslands decreased dramatically in the 19th and 20th centuries. Many remaining patches have been included in protected areas, and their conversion to other land-use types has been limited in recent decades. However, changes in these plant communities may have occurred due to environmental changes and altered management practices. To assess temporal changes in plant diversity and species composition in sand grasslands in the Vienna Basin (Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria), we resurveyed 86 vegetation plots in 2023-2024 that were first sampled between 1952 and 2010. We compared changes in species composition using principal coordinate analysis and distance-based redundancy analysis. We tested changes in species richness of vascular plants using a linear mixed-effect model, proportions of specialized, ruderal, threatened, alien and woody species using generalized estimating equation models, and ecological indicator values using permutation tests. We compared these changes among three main vegetation types of sand grasslands (pioneer, acidophilous and basiphilous). The results indicate that the main types of sand grasslands in the Vienna Basin have persisted over recent decades and have not been replaced by other vegetation types. However, specialized species of sand and dry grasslands, as well as species adapted to grazing, have declined. In contrast, species with higher nutrient and moisture requirements have increased. This indicates an effect of eutrophication and natural succession following the abandonment of previous management. The decline in sand specialists was most pronounced in the pioneer sand vegetation, where species with higher Ellenberg-type indicator values for temperature also decreased, indicating a transition to more closed sand grasslands. These results indicate that appropriate conservation management and future monitoring are needed to maintain the habitat quality of inland sand vegetation.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1667/2024, interní kód MU

Název: Evoluční a Ekologické procesy pro Udržení Biodiverzity a ekologické Stability

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Evoluční a Ekologické procesy pro Udržení Biodiverzity a ekologické Stability

Citovat

FRIESOVÁ, Klára; Irena AXMANOVÁ; Dariia BOROVYK; Mirjana ĆUK; Branislav KOPČAN; Milan VALACHOVIC; Adam T CLARK a Milan CHYTRÝ. Vegetation remains, specialist species fade: changes in Pannonian sand grasslands. PRESLIA. CZECH BOTANICAL SOC, 2025, roč. 97, č. 4, s. 613-635. ISSN 0032-7786. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.23855/preslia.2025.613.

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N2  - Inland sand grasslands are highly threatened habitats in central Europe and the Pannonian biogeographical region. They harbour several specialized and threatened species adapted to the dry, nutrient-poor conditions of sandy soils. The area of these grasslands decreased dramatically in the 19th and 20th centuries. Many remaining patches have been included in protected areas, and their conversion to other land-use types has been limited in recent decades. However, changes in these plant communities may have occurred due to environmental changes and altered management practices. To assess temporal changes in plant diversity and species composition in sand grasslands in the Vienna Basin (Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria), we resurveyed 86 vegetation plots in 2023-2024 that were first sampled between 1952 and 2010. We compared changes in species composition using principal coordinate analysis and distance-based redundancy analysis. We tested changes in species richness of vascular plants using a linear mixed-effect model, proportions of specialized, ruderal, threatened, alien and woody species using generalized estimating equation models, and ecological indicator values using permutation tests. We compared these changes among three main vegetation types of sand grasslands (pioneer, acidophilous and basiphilous). The results indicate that the main types of sand grasslands in the Vienna Basin have persisted over recent decades and have not been replaced by other vegetation types. However, specialized species of sand and dry grasslands, as well as species adapted to grazing, have declined. In contrast, species with higher nutrient and moisture requirements have increased. This indicates an effect of eutrophication and natural succession following the abandonment of previous management. The decline in sand specialists was most pronounced in the pioneer sand vegetation, where species with higher Ellenberg-type indicator values for temperature also decreased, indicating a transition to more closed sand grasslands. These results indicate that appropriate conservation management and future monitoring are needed to maintain the habitat quality of inland sand vegetation.
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FRIESOVÁ, Klára; Irena AXMANOVÁ; Dariia BOROVYK; Mirjana $\backslash$'CUK; Branislav KOPČAN; Milan VALACHOVIC; Adam T CLARK a Milan CHYTRÝ. Vegetation remains, specialist species fade: changes in Pannonian sand grasslands. \textit{PRESLIA}. CZECH BOTANICAL SOC, 2025, roč.~97, č.~4, s.~613-635. ISSN~0032-7786. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.23855/preslia.2025.613.

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