Supporting biodiversity by prescribed burning in grasslands — A multi-taxa approach

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 572, Issue , 2016, Pages 1377-1384

  Valkó, Orsolya ^a   Deák, Balázs ^a   Magura, Tibor ^a   Török, Péter ^a   Kelemen, András ^a   Tóth, Katalin ^a   Horváth, Roland ^a   Nagy, Dávid D ^a   Debnár, Zsuzsanna ^a   Zsigrai, György ^b   Kapocsi, István ^c   Tóthmérész, Béla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b Research Institute for Viticulture and Oenology   (Hungary)

^c UNIV OF HORT AND FOOD INDUSTRY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Biomass; Fire; Fuel load; Management; Response of the ecosystem; Steppe

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CONSERVATION; FIRES; MANAGEMENT; PLANTS (BOTANY);

CONSERVATION MEASURES; FUEL LOADS; INVERTEBRATE SPECIES; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RARE AND ENDANGERED SPECIES; SHANNON DIVERSITY; SOIL CHARACTERISTICS; STEPPE;

LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES;

ORGANIC MATTER; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM;

ABUNDANCE; ARTHROPOD; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GRASSLAND; PRESCRIBED BURNING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STEPPE; TAXONOMY; WILDFIRE;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CARABIDAE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRY GRASSLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FESCUE; FESTUCA PSEUDOVINA; FORB BIOMASS; GRAMINOID BIOMASS; GRASSLAND; GREEN BIOMASS; ISOPODA; NONHUMAN; NUMBER OF FLOWERING SHOOT; PLANT DIVERSITY; PLANT LITTER; PLANT PARAMETERS; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRESCRIBED BURNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL ACIDITY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL SALT CONTENT; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPIDER; STAPHYLINIDAE; TITANOTECA VETERANICA; TOTAL BIOMASS; TROCHOSA ROBUSTA; VEGETATION; ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; CHEMISTRY; FIRE; HUNGARY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL;

EUROPE;

ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; CARABIDAE; FESTUCA PSEUDOVINA; INVERTEBRATA; ISOPODA; POACEAE; STAPHYLINIDAE;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FIRES; GRASSLAND; HUNGARY; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOIL;

EID: 84957098055     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.01.184     Document Type: Article

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