Issue 12/2016
Special Issue: Palaearctic Steppes: Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation
Content (19 Articles)
Step(pe) up! Raising the profile of the Palaearctic natural grasslands
Péter Török, Didem Ambarlı, Johannes Kamp, Karsten Wesche, Jürgen Dengler
The Palaearctic steppe biome: a new synthesis
Karsten Wesche, Didem Ambarlı, Johannes Kamp, Peter Török, Jan Treiber, Jürgen Dengler
Patterns and drivers of phytodiversity in steppe grasslands of Central Podolia (Ukraine)
Anna A. Kuzemko, Manuel J. Steinbauer, Thomas Becker, Yakiv P. Didukh, Christian Dolnik, Michael Jeschke, Alireza Naqinezhad, Emin Uğurlu, Kiril Vassilev, Jürgen Dengler
Scale- and taxon-dependent patterns of plant diversity in steppes of Khakassia, South Siberia (Russia)
Mariya A. Polyakova, Iwona Dembicz, Thomas Becker, Ute Becker, Olga N. Demina, Nikolai Ermakov, Goffredo Filibeck, Riccardo Guarino, Monika Janišová, Renaud Jaunatre, Łukasz Kozub, Manuel J. Steinbauer, Kohei Suzuki, Jürgen Dengler
How does size and isolation affect patches of steppe-like vegetation on slumping hills in Transylvania, Romania?
Laura M. E. Sutcliffe, Markus Germany, Ute Becker, Thomas Becker
Isolation and patch size drive specialist plant species density within steppe islands: a case study of kurgans in southern Ukraine
Iwona Dembicz, Ivan I. Moysiyenko, Anastasia Shaposhnikova, Denys Vynokurov, Łukasz Kozub, Barbara Sudnik-Wójcikowska
Phylogeographic patterns of steppe species in Eastern Central Europe: a review and the implications for conservation
Łukasz Kajtoch, Elżbieta Cieślak, Zoltán Varga, Wojciech Paul, Miłosz A. Mazur, Gábor Sramkó, Daniel Kubisz
Effects of land use and landscape patterns on Orthoptera communities in the Western Siberian forest steppe
Sarah Weking, Immo Kämpf, Wanja Mathar, Norbert Hölzel
Floristic diversity of meadow steppes in the Western Siberian Plain: effects of abiotic site conditions, management and landscape structure
Wanja P. Mathar, Immo Kämpf, Till Kleinebecker, Igor Kuzmin, Andrey Tolstikov, Sergey Tupitsin, Norbert Hölzel
Breeding ecology of the endemic Black Lark Melanocorypha yeltoniensis on natural steppe and abandoned croplands in post-Soviet Kazakhstan
Thomas K. Lameris, Thijs P. M. Fijen, Ruslan Urazaliev, Genrietta Pulikova, Paul F. Donald, Johannes Kamp
Vegetation and soil responses to livestock grazing in Central Asian grasslands: a review of Chinese literature
Yun Wang, Karsten Wesche
Applying the social–ecological systems framework to the evaluation and design of payment for ecosystem service schemes in the Eurasian steppe
J. Addison, R. Greiner
Grazing increases functional richness but not functional divergence in Tibetan alpine meadow plant communities
Kechang Niu, Jin-Sheng He, Shiting Zhang, Martin J. Lechowicz
Mid- and late-Holocene vegetation history, climate and human impact in the forest-steppe ecotone of European Russia: new data and a regional synthesis
Elena Y. Novenko, Andrey N. Tsyganov, Olga V. Rudenko, Elena V. Volkova, Inna S. Zuyganova, Kirill V. Babeshko, Alexander V. Olchev, Nikolai I. Losbenev, Richard J. Payne, Yuri A. Mazei
Cultural monuments and nature conservation: a review of the role of kurgans in the conservation and restoration of steppe vegetation
Balázs Deák, Béla Tóthmérész, Orsolya Valkó, Barbara Sudnik-Wójcikowska, Ivan I. Moysiyenko, Tatyana M. Bragina, Iva Apostolova, Iwona Dembicz, Nikolay I. Bykov, Péter Török
An overview of biodiversity and conservation status of steppes of the Anatolian Biogeographical Region
Didem Ambarlı, Uğur S. Zeydanlı, Özge Balkız, Serdar Aslan, Evrim Karaçetin, Mustafa Sözen, Çetin Ilgaz, Arzu Gürsoy Ergen, Yıldıray Lise, Semiha Demirbaş Çağlayan, Hilary J. Welch, Geoff Welch, Ayşe S. Turak, C. Can Bilgin, Aydan Özkil, Mecit Vural
Persistent and novel threats to the biodiversity of Kazakhstan’s steppes and semi-deserts
Johannes Kamp, Maxim A. Koshkin, Tatyana M. Bragina, Todd E. Katzner, E. J. Milner-Gulland, Dagmar Schreiber, Robert Sheldon, Alyona Shmalenko, Ilya Smelansky, Julien Terraube, Ruslan Urazaliev
Spontaneous steppe restoration on abandoned cropland in Kazakhstan: grazing affects successional pathways
Annika Brinkert, Norbert Hölzel, Tatyana V. Sidorova, Johannes Kamp
Post-Soviet recovery of grassland vegetation on abandoned fields in the forest steppe zone of Western Siberia
Immo Kämpf, Wanja Mathar, Igor Kuzmin, Norbert Hölzel, Kathrin Kiehl