Investigation of carbon sequestration processes of reconstructed grasslands and wetlands to aid ecosystem service-based decision making

Kiss Márton and Németh Z. and Bárány-Kevei Ilona and Czóbel S.: Investigation of carbon sequestration processes of reconstructed grasslands and wetlands to aid ecosystem service-based decision making. In: Acta climatologica, (47-48). pp. 63-70. (2014)

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Abstract

In this paper, we analysed the effect of habitat reconstructions on some parameters characterizing the carbon exchange processes of ecosystems. Besides extending our knowledge on the ecophysiological functioning of different plant communities, our work was motivated by international policy goals as well: a considerable amount of degraded ecosystems and their services was declared in the European Union to be reconstructed in the next few years. These kinds of projects need detailed impact analyses and a methodological grounding. We would like to contribute to these goals with the results of field measurements carried out in an extensive habitat reconstruction area in the Egyek-Pusztakócs habitat complex (Hortobágy National Park, Eastern Hungary). In this paper, we analysed the results of carbon and nitrogen contents of soils and biomass samples and the average net ecosystem exchange values of the investigated ecosystem types. Our results show that natural or near-natural, well-structured grasslands have an outstanding carbon sequestration and storing potential in the studied landscape type, the restored grasslands lag behind in every parameters. In the process of secondary succession, the carbon exchange characteristics of the restored grasslands seem to follow mainly the species composition, and the effects of land management can modify the effects of regeneration from the point of view of ecophysiological functioning.

Item Type: Article
Journal or Publication Title: Acta climatologica
Date: 2014
Volume: 47-48
ISSN: 0563-0614
Page Range: pp. 63-70
Language: English
Place of Publication: Szeged
Related URLs: http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/38807/
Uncontrolled Keywords: Éghajlattan, Ökológiai rendszerek
Additional Information: Bibliogr.: p. 69-70. ; ill. ; összefoglalás angol nyelven
Subjects: 01. Natural sciences
01. Natural sciences > 01.05. Earth and related environmental sciences
Date Deposited: 2016. Oct. 17. 10:37
Last Modified: 2022. May. 11. 13:15
URI: http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/id/eprint/34898

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