Conservation assessment of forest steppe vegetation at different spatial and temporal scales

Last modified: 23. February 2024

Conservation assessment of forest steppe vegetation at different spatial and temporal scales

The forest steppe is a dominant landscape type in Eurasia, a diverse and highly species-rich mosaic of forests, shrublands and grasslands in a semi-arid climate. The forest-steppe zone reaches its westernmost limit of distribution in the Carpathian Basin. Nowadays, the forest steppes have shrunk and transformed. Maintaining their unique biodiversity in the future is a major conservation challenge, especially in Europe. Our research covers time scales from a few tens of thousands of years (see Flora Continuity Hypothesis) to dynamics within a few years or around a year. Most of our research is carried out in the Pannonian biogeographical region, but we also botanise in remote areas of the Eurasian forest-steppe zone (Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, Russia). The aim is to improve our knowledge of the flora and vegetation of forest-steppe landscapes in the long and short term, and thus to help their conservation.

Participating researcher:
Ábel Péter Molnár     https://m2.mtmt.hu/gui2/?type=authors&mode=browse&sel=authors10079559