Community Ecology
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Volume 9: Issue Supplement-1
Will interannual variability in sand grassland communities increase with climate change?
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S. Bartha Institute of Ecology and Botany of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Alkotmány u. 2-4 H-2163 Vácrátót Hungary

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G. Campetella University of Camerino Botany and Ecology section, Department of Environmental Science via Pontoni 5 62032 Camerino Italy

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E. Ruprecht Babeş-Bolyai University Department of Taxonomy and Ecology Republicii street no. 42 R-400015 Cluj Napoca Romania

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A. Kun Kolostor u. 2. 1/C H-1117 Budapest Hungary

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J. Házi Ministry of Environment and Water Nature Conservation Department Budapest Hungary

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A. Horváth Institute of Ecology and Botany of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Alkotmány u. 2-4 H-2163 Vácrátót Hungary

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K. Virágh Institute of Ecology and Botany of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Alkotmány u. 2-4 H-2163 Vácrátót Hungary

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Zs. Molnár Institute of Ecology and Botany of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Alkotmány u. 2-4 H-2163 Vácrátót Hungary

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13–21
Online Publication Date:
15 Jan 2009
Publication Date:
01 Jun 2008
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/comec.9.2008.s.4
Keywords:
Aridity gradient; Biome transition zone; Climate scenario; Compositional diversity; Field test; KISKUN LTER; Monitoring; Resilience
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Decreasing diversity and plant cover, as well as increasing variability of these characteristics with increasing aridity are expected in grasslands due to climate change. These predictions were tested in perennial sand grasslands in Hungary. Two sites were chosen in different positions on an aridity gradient and two stands in each site were monitored for 9 years. Presence of plant species were recorded along 52 m long circular belt transects of 1040 units of 5 cm × 5 cm contiguous microquadrats. This sampling procedure — a version of line-intercept methods — enabled us to monitor diversity and total abundance in a sensitive, precise and non-destructive way. We found no trend but fluctuation in most community level attributes and in species composition. Contrary to fluctuations, between-site differences in diversity did not change and diversity remained lower in the more arid site during our 9-year-study. Compositional diversity performed better than species diversity because allowed us to detect vegetation changes that would have remained hidden if monitoring would be based only on the species richness. Comparing the magnitudes of fluctuations, five times higher relative interannual variability (CV%) was found for compositional diversity at the more arid site, while the relative temporal variability of total abundance and species richness did not show consistent patterns. We conclude that a 9 year-long study was too short to identify trends caused by the changing climate. However, the larger temporal variability of species combinations found in the more arid site suggests larger vulnerability and highlights the importance of non-linear dynamics during climate changes.

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1585-8553
Online ISSN:
1588-2756

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Community Ecology
Language English
Size A4
Year of
Foundation		 2000
Volumes
per Year		 1
Issues
per Year		 3
Founder Akadémiai Kiadó
Founder's
Address		 H-1117 Budapest, Hungary 1516 Budapest, PO Box 245
Publisher Akadémiai Kiadó
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Publisher's
Address		 H-1117 Budapest, Hungary 1516 Budapest, PO Box 245.
CH-6330 Cham, Switzerland Gewerbestrasse 11.
Responsible
Publisher		 Chief Executive Officer, Akadémiai Kiadó
ISSN 1585-8553 (Print)
ISSN 1588-2756 (Online)

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