Grassland restoration on linear landscape elements - comparing the effects of topsoil removal and topsoil transfer.

ABSTRACT: Artificial linear landscape elements, including roads, pipelines, and drainage channels, are main sources of global habitat fragmentation. Restoration of natural habitats on unused linear landscape elements can increase habitat quality and connectivity without interfering with agricultural or industrial development. Despite that topsoil removal and transfer are widely applied methods in restoration projects, up to our knowledge these were previously not compared in the same study system. To address this knowledge gap, we compared spontaneous vegetation recovery after the elimination of positive (embankments) and negative landscape scars (drainage channels) in lowland alkaline landscapes in South Hungary. The novelty of our study is that we compared the fine-scale and landscape-scale result

SUBMITTER: Valko O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11340085 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature