Post-Soviet recovery of grassland vegetation on abandoned fields in the forest steppe zone of Western Siberia

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 2563-2580

  Kämpf, Immo ^a,b   Mathar, Wanja ^b   Kuzmin, Igor ^c   Hölzel, Norbert ^b   Kiehl, Kathrin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c TYUMEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Abandoned farmland; Conservation value; Meadow steppe; Old field; Secondary succession; Species composition

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED LAND; AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARABLE LAND; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSERVATION STATUS; GRAZING; MEADOW; PLANT COMMUNITY; SECONDARY SUCCESSION; STEPPE; VASCULAR PLANT;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA; TYUMEN; USSR;

POACEAE; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84960330494     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-016-1078-x     Document Type: Article

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