Origin of the forest steppe and exceptional grassland diversity in Transylvania (central‐eastern Europe)

By A. Feurdean, E. Marinova, A. Nielsen, J. Liakka, D. Veres, S. Hutchinson, M. Braun, A. Timar-Gabor, C. Astaloș, V. Mosburgger and 1 more. 2015

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The forest steppe of the Transylvanian Plain is a landscape of exceptionally diverse steppe‐like and semi‐natural grasslands. Is this vegetation a remnant of a once continuous temperate forest extensively cleared by humans, or has the area, since the last glacial, always been a forest steppe? Understanding the processes that drive temperate grassland formation is important because effective management of this biome is critical to the conservation of the European cultural landscape.

Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Insect Science

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