An attempt to restore a Czech species-rich mountain grassland through grazing

0129773 - BU-J 20035039 RIV SE eng J - Článek v odborném periodiku
Matějková, I. - van Diggelen, R. - Prach, Karel
An attempt to restore a Czech species-rich mountain grassland through grazing.
Applied vegetation science. Roč. 6, - (2003), s. 161-168. ISSN 1402-2001. E-ISSN 1654-109X
Grant CEP: GA ČR GA206/99/1410; GA AV ČR KSK6005114
Výzkumný záměr: CEZ:AV0Z6005908
Klíčová slova: grazing * diversity * restoration
Kód oboru RIV: EF - Botanika
Impakt faktor: 0.877, rok: 2003

This paper describes the effects of re-established seasonal cattle grazing by 0.7 animals/ha on vegetation in a long-term abandoned and partly degraded semi-natural mountain pasture in the Šumava National Park, Czech Republic. There was very uneven grazing intensity inside the locality and grazing preference changed during the season: the cattle grazed most of the time in productive but species-poor Deschampsia cespitosa swards but changed to a species-rich Violion caninae stand in the middle of the summer. A species-rich Carex rostrata community was only grazed at the and of the vegetation season. Species-poor swards dominated by Nardus stricta and Carex brizoides were mainly used as resting areas. Both grazing and excluding from grazing had a negative effect on species diversity of the Deschampsia cespitosa swards. The soil seed bank contained only few species that are characteristic of mountain grassland communities, and seed dispersal of the target species by cattle dung was also found to be very limited thus both probably having only limited value for the restoration of species-rich grasslands from species-poor Deschampsia cespitosa swards in this case.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0027946