Anna Komarova, Greenpeace, Russia x2019Talk xVegetation xClimate Change xGrassland xSuccession xRussia
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ABSTRACT: "Grassland Communities Within Abandoned Settlements in Northwest Russia: Does the Syntaxa’s Conservation Value Correspond the Microsite’s Land Use Status? " Anna Komarova
Herbaceous communities are widespread in the European part of Russia and connected with human activity. The restorative succession of abandoned croplands and settlements was investigated before, but the syntaxonomy (and communities’ relative conservation value) and the drivers of their spatial structure remained beyond the scope of previous studies. Our research aimed to test the hypothesis that the syntaxa, as repercussion of ecology conditions and conservation value, correspond to land use history. To classify the vegetation according to Braun-Blanquet’s approach, ninety-eight relevés collected in 2014 and 2018 were used. Based on relevés and previous data, the conservation value of alliances was
