Restoring grassland on arable land: an example of a fast spontaneous succession without weed-dominated stages

Title:

Restoring grassland on arable land: an example of a fast spontaneous succession without weed-dominated stages

Creator:

Jongepierová, Ivana, Jongepier, Jan W., and Klimeš , Leoš

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:645b44a7-a48b-45f5-99d2-e94913a4f910
uuid:645b44a7-a48b-45f5-99d2-e94913a4f910

Subject:

Czech Republic, divergent succession, grassland restoration, long-term dynamics, monitoring, mowing, oldfield, rate of succession, secondary succession, and species richness

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

bez média and svazek

Description:

Vegetation succession was studied for 12 years on an abandoned nutrient-poor small field surrounded by a strip of natural grassland. No fertilizers or herbicides were applied. Few weeds or annuals were present during this period. Only two plants, i.e. Agrostis capillaris and Festuca rubra, dominated during the 12 years. At two spatial scales (0.04 and 0.4 m2 ) a dramatic increase in species richness was recorded during the first two years. However, no further trend in species richness occurred after the sixth year of succession. Successional changes were directed and continuous. The rate of succession depended on the distance from the neighbouring meadow. Vegetation at the margins of the transect developed more slowly and diverged from the middle during the succession.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

361-369

Source:

Preslia | 2004 Volume:76 | Number:4

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

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