News
Just started a new project about the collection of observations at "Fülöpháza" grassland area on iNaturalist website
The project is at these link: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/life-on-the-sand-area-of-fulophaza
In the frame of "Topograss" project we conducted the monitoring of sandy grasslands of Fülöpháza in 2023
With the help of the LTER Seed grant, named "Topograss", we monitored the vegetation of the "Fülöpháza" sand grassland area in 2023. This included monitoring vascular plant species and their abundance at 200 permanent sampling sites within a 4 m x 4 m plot. The exceptional drought of 2022 gave the monitoring a sad update. More than 80% of the sampling sites experienced mortality of the dominant grass species (Festuca vaginata, Stipa borysthenica). In this year's project, we are investigating factors influencing mortality/survival of these grasses.
A paper appeared about the management of common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
Berki, B., Botta‐Dukát, Z., Csákvári, E., Gyalus, A., Halassy, M., Mártonffy, A., ... & Csecserits, A. Short‐term effects of the control of the invasive plant Asclepias syriaca: secondary invasion of other neophytes instead of the recovery of native species. Applied Vegetation Science, e12707.
New paper on restoration of Pannonian sand grassland
Llumiquinga, Y. B., Reis, B. P., Sáradi, N., Török, K., Szitár, K. & Halassy, M. (2021): Long-term results of initial seeding, mowing and carbon amendment on the restoration of Pannonian sand grassland on old fields. – Tuexenia 41: 361–379.
https://www.tuexenia.de/publications/tuexenia/Tuexenia_2021_NS_041_0361-0379.pdf
New paper on productivity–diversity relationship
Ónodi, G., G. Kröel-Dulay, Z. Botta-Dukát, and M. Kertész. 2021.
Disturbance reshapes the productivity–diversity relationship. Journal of
Vegetation Science 32:e13030.
