River Dikes in Agricultural Landscapes: The Importance of Secondary Habitats in Maintaining Landscape-Scale Diversity

Bátori, Zoltán; Körmöczi, László; Zalatnai, Márta; Erdős, László; Odór, Péter; Tölgyesi, Csaba; Margóczi, Katalin; Torma, Attila; Gallé, Róbert; Cseh, Viktória; Török, Péter

doi:10.1007/s13157-016-0734-y

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“…on rocky surfaces) and/or small fragments with varying levels of degradation (Smelansky & Tishkov, ). As an extreme case of fragmentation, small areas of anthropogenic habitats, such as field margins (Cizek, Hauck, & Pokluda, ), railway embankments (Dudáš, Eliáš, & Mártonfi, ), river dykes (Bátori et al., ), kurgans (Deák et al., ) and road verges (Heneberg, Bogusch, & Řezáč, ), may serve as the last refuges for steppe and forest‐steppe species.…”

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The edge of two worlds: A new review and synthesis on Eurasian forest‐steppes

Erdős

Ambarlı

Anenkhonov

et al. 2018

Applied Vegetation Science

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Aims: Eurasian forest-steppes are among the most complex non-tropical terrestrial ecosystems. Despite their considerable scientific, ecological and economic importance, knowledge of forest-steppes is limited, particularly at the continental scale.Here we provide an overview of Eurasian forest-steppes across the entire zone: (a) we propose an up-to-date definition of forest-steppes, (b) give a short physiogeographic outline, (c) delineate and briefly characterize the main forest-steppe regions, (d) explore forest-steppe biodiversity and conservation status, and (e) outline foreststeppe prospects under predicted climate change. Location: Eurasia (29°-56°N, 16°-139°E). Results and Conclusions: Forest-steppes are natural or near-natural vegetation complexes of arboreal and herbaceous components (typically distributed in a mosaic pattern) in the temperate zone, where the co-existence of forest and grassland is enabled primarily by the semi-humid to semi-arid climate, complemented by complex interactions of biotic and abiotic factors operating at multiple scales. This new definition includes lowland forest-grassland macromosaics (e.g. in Eastern Europe), exposurerelated mountain forest-steppes (e.g. in Inner Asia), fine-scale forest-grassland This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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The edge of two worlds: A new review and synthesis on Eurasian forest‐steppes

Erdős

Ambarlı

Anenkhonov

et al. 2018

Applied Vegetation Science

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“…The annual mean temperature is 10.5-10.6 °C and the average annual rainfall is 570 mm. Before the rivers were regulated, the area was frequently flooded and characterized by wet grasslands (Bátori et al, 2016). After river regulation and drainage works, which were typical in the 19th and 20th centuries, the lowered water levels and desiccation of habitats induced secondary salt accumulation in higher soil layers, especially in former wet, non-alkali meadows (Molnár and Borhidi, 2003).…”

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“…Saarinen et al, 2005;Söderström and Hedblom, 2007), dikes (e.g. Torma and Császár, 2013;Bátori et al, 2016), and hedges (e.g. Ernoult et al, 2013;Morandin and Kremen, 2013) in biodiversity conservation.…”

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Secondary habitats are important in biodiversity conservation: a case study on orthopterans along ditch banks

Torma¹,

Bozsó²,

Gallé³

2018

Anim. Biodiv. Conserv.

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Secondary habitats are important in biodiversity conservation: a case study on orthopterans along ditch banks. It has been shown that native biota can survive in secondary habitats such as road verges, dikes and hedges. We aimed to assess the conservation value of ditch banks for orthopterans in an agricultural landscape in Hungary, based on the analyses of species richness and abundance data using mixed-models. We did not find any differences in the species richness between isolated ditch banks, semi-isolated ditch banks and control meadows. The extent of isolation had a significantly negative effect, however, on the abundance of sedentary species. We found that the density of woody vegetation along ditch banks had a negative effect on the total abundance and the abundance of mobile species. Positive relationships were found between the width of ditch bank vegetation and the abundance of Caelifera, mobile, xerophilous and mesophilous species. Our results suggest that the density of orthopterans may be a more sensitive measure for habitat quality than their species richness. We concluded that ditch banks are a suitable habitat for the majority of orthopterans, including rare and endangered species, emphasizing that ditch banks and similar linear habitats should receive more attention and should be given a more prominent role in invertebrate conservation.

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“…Therefore, small patches of remnant, seminatural vegetation with multiple threatened species became of conservation concern. These can sustain threatened species in anthropogenically influenced habitats, such as midfield islets and roadside verges (Cousins, ; Godefroid, ), cemeteries (Barrett & Barrett, ), freshwater pools and lakes (Lukács, Sramkó, & Molnár, ; Lukács et al, ), river dikes (Bátori et al, ), and kurgans (Deák, Tóthmérész, et al, ; Deák, Valkó, Török, & Tóthmérész, ).…”

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Roadside verges and cemeteries: Comparative analysis of anthropogenic orchid habitats in the Eastern Mediterranean

Fekete

Löki

Urgyán

et al. 2019

Ecology and Evolution

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Several important habitats have become threatened in the last few centuries in the Mediterranean Basin due to major changes adopted in land‐use practices. The consequent loss of natural and seminatural orchid habitats leads to the appreciation of small anthropogenic habitats, such as cemeteries and roadside verges. Colonization of cemeteries and roadside verges by orchids has long been known, but no study to date compared the suitability of these two anthropogenic habitats for orchids. Therefore, in this paper our aim was to survey cemeteries and roadside verges and to compare these two habitats regarding their role in conserving Mediterranean terrestrial orchids. We conducted field surveys in three Mediterranean islands, Cyprus, Crete, and Lesbos, where both cemeteries and roadside verges were sampled on a geographically representative scale. We found a total of almost 7,000 orchid individuals, belonging to 77 species in the two anthropogenic habitat types. Roadside verges hosted significantly more individuals than cemeteries in Crete and Lesbos, and significantly more species across all three islands. Our results suggest that although cemeteries have a great potential conservation value in other parts of the world, intensive maintenance practices that characterized cemeteries in these three islands renders them unable to sustain valuable plant communities. On the other hand, roadside verges play a prominent role in the conservation of Mediterranean orchids in Cyprus and Greece. The pioneer status of roadside verges facilitates their fast colonization, while roads serve as ecological corridors in fragmented landscapes.

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River Dikes in Agricultural Landscapes: The Importance of Secondary Habitats in Maintaining Landscape-Scale Diversity

Cited by 22 publications

References 60 publications

The edge of two worlds: A new review and synthesis on Eurasian forest‐steppes

The edge of two worlds: A new review and synthesis on Eurasian forest‐steppes

Secondary habitats are important in biodiversity conservation: a case study on orthopterans along ditch banks

Roadside verges and cemeteries: Comparative analysis of anthropogenic orchid habitats in the Eastern Mediterranean

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