Ancient Burial Mounds Provide Safe Havens for Grassland Specialist Plants in Transformed Landscapes—A Trait-Based Analysis

Ancient Burial Mounds Provide Safe Havens for Grassland Specialist Plants in Transformed Landscapes—A Trait-Based Analysis

Due to the intensified land use in transformed landscapes, grassland biodiversity is often restricted to habitat fragments inadequate for arable use or for urban development. In continental parts of Eurasia, the ~600,000 ancient burial mounds (called “kurgans”) built by nomadic tribes of the steppes...

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Main Authors: Balázs Deák, Zoltán Rádai, Zoltán Bátori, András Kelemen, Katalin Lukács, Réka Kiss, István Elek Maák, Orsolya Valkó
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Subjects:
habitat island
refuge site
verge
functional traits
phylogenetics
conservation
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2021.619812/full

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