Post-Soviet shifts in grazing and fire regimes changed the functional plant community composition on the Eurasian steppe

© 2020 The Authors. Global Change Biology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Bibliographische Detailangaben
Veröffentlicht in:Global change biology. - 1999. - 27(2021), 2 vom: 08. Jan., Seite 388-401
1. Verfasser: Freitag, Martin (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Kamp, Johannes, Dara, Andrey, Kuemmerle, Tobias, Sidorova, Tatyana V, Stirnemann, Ingrid A, Velbert, Frederike, Hölzel, Norbert
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2021
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Global change biology
Schlagworte:Journal Article Kazakhstan Landsat MODIS disturbance grassland land use livestock decline regime shift
LEADER 01000caa a22002652c 4500
001 NLM316548278
003 DE-627
005 20250228060040.0
007 cr uuu---uuuuu
008 231225s2021 xx |||||o 00| ||eng c
024 7 |a 10.1111/gcb.15411  |2 doi 
028 5 2 |a pubmed25n1054.xml 
035 |a (DE-627)NLM316548278 
035 |a (NLM)33085817 
040 |a DE-627  |b ger  |c DE-627  |e rakwb 
041 |a eng 
100 1 |a Freitag, Martin  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
245 1 0 |a Post-Soviet shifts in grazing and fire regimes changed the functional plant community composition on the Eurasian steppe 
264 1 |c 2021 
336 |a Text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a ƒaComputermedien  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a ƒa Online-Ressource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
500 |a Date Completed 21.04.2021 
500 |a Date Revised 21.04.2021 
500 |a published: Print-Electronic 
500 |a Citation Status MEDLINE 
520 |a © 2020 The Authors. Global Change Biology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 
520 |a Globally, grasslands are shaped by grazing and fire, and grassland plants are adapted to these disturbances. However, temperate grasslands have been hotspots of land-use change, and how such changes affect interrelations between herbivory, fire and vegetation are poorly understood. Such land-use changes are widespread on the Eurasian steppe, where the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 triggered the abandonment of cropland and pasture on globally relevant scales. Thus, to determine how relationships between plant functional composition, grazing and fire patterns changed after the Soviet Union dissolved, we studied a 358,000 km2 region in the dry steppe of Kazakhstan, combining a large field dataset on plant functional traits with multi-scale satellite data. We found that increases in burned area corresponded to decreases in livestock grazing across large areas. Furthermore, fires occurred more often with high cover of grasses with high leaf dry matter content and thus higher flammability, whereas higher grazing pressure favoured grazing-tolerant woody forbs and ruderal plants with high specific leaf area. The current situation of low grazing pressure represents a historically exceptional, potentially non-analogue state. We suggest that the dissolution of the Soviet Union caused the disturbance regime to shift from grazer to fire control. As grazing and fire each result in different plant functional compositions, we propose that this led to widespread increases in grasses and associated changes in steppe plant community structure. These changes have potentially occurred across an area of more than 2 million km2 , representing much of the world's largest temperate grassland area, with globally relevant, yet poorly understood implications for biodiversity and ecosystem functions such as carbon cycling. Additionally, future steppe management must also consider positive implications of abandonment ('rewilding') because reverting the regime shift in disturbance and associated changes in vegetation would require grazing animals to be reintroduced across vast areas 
650 4 |a Journal Article 
650 4 |a Kazakhstan 
650 4 |a Landsat 
650 4 |a MODIS 
650 4 |a disturbance 
650 4 |a grassland 
650 4 |a land use 
650 4 |a livestock decline 
650 4 |a regime shift 
700 1 |a Kamp, Johannes  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Dara, Andrey  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Kuemmerle, Tobias  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Sidorova, Tatyana V  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Stirnemann, Ingrid A  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Velbert, Frederike  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Hölzel, Norbert  |e verfasserin  |4 aut 
773 0 8 |i Enthalten in  |t Global change biology  |d 1999  |g 27(2021), 2 vom: 08. Jan., Seite 388-401  |w (DE-627)NLM098239996  |x 1365-2486  |7 nnas 
773 1 8 |g volume:27  |g year:2021  |g number:2  |g day:08  |g month:01  |g pages:388-401 
856 4 0 |u http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15411  |3 Volltext 
912 |a GBV_USEFLAG_A 
912 |a SYSFLAG_A 
912 |a GBV_NLM 
912 |a GBV_ILN_350 
951 |a AR 
952 |d 27  |j 2021  |e 2  |b 08  |c 01  |h 388-401