Volume 25, Issue 12

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November 2016

Special Issue: Palaearctic Steppes: Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation

Issue Editors:

Jürgen Dengler,
Didem Ambarlı,
Johannes Kamp,
Péter Török,
Karsten Wesche

19 articles in this issue

Step(pe) up! Raising the profile of the Palaearctic natural grasslands
Péter Török
Didem Ambarlı
Jürgen Dengler
Editorial 26 September 2016 Pages: 2187 - 2195
The Palaearctic steppe biome: a new synthesis
Karsten Wesche
Didem Ambarlı
Jürgen Dengler
Original Paper 07 October 2016 Pages: 2197 - 2231
Patterns and drivers of phytodiversity in steppe grasslands of Central Podolia (Ukraine)
Anna A. Kuzemko
Manuel J. Steinbauer
Jürgen Dengler
Original Paper 24 February 2016 Pages: 2233 - 2250
Scale- and taxon-dependent patterns of plant diversity in steppes of Khakassia, South Siberia (Russia)
Mariya A. Polyakova
Iwona Dembicz
Jürgen Dengler
Original Paper Open access 13 April 2016 Pages: 2251 - 2273
How does size and isolation affect patches of steppe-like vegetation on slumping hills in Transylvania, Romania?
Laura M. E. Sutcliffe
Markus Germany
Thomas Becker
Original Paper 04 May 2016 Pages: 2275 - 2288
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
Barbara Sudnik-Wójcikowska
Original Paper Open access 19 March 2016 Pages: 2289 - 2307
Phylogeographic patterns of steppe species in Eastern Central Europe: a review and the implications for conservation
Łukasz Kajtoch
Elżbieta Cieślak
Daniel Kubisz
Original Paper Open access 26 February 2016 Pages: 2309 - 2339
Effects of land use and landscape patterns on Orthoptera communities in the Western Siberian forest steppe
Sarah Weking
Immo Kämpf
Norbert Hölzel
Original Paper 28 April 2016 Pages: 2341 - 2359
Floristic diversity of meadow steppes in the Western Siberian Plain: effects of abiotic site conditions, management and landscape structure
Wanja P. Mathar
Immo Kämpf
Norbert Hölzel
Original Paper 06 November 2015 Pages: 2361 - 2379
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
Johannes Kamp
Original Paper Open access 30 January 2016 Pages: 2381 - 2400
Vegetation and soil responses to livestock grazing in Central Asian grasslands: a review of Chinese literature
Yun Wang
Karsten Wesche
Original Paper 20 January 2016 Pages: 2401 - 2420
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
Original Paper 15 October 2015 Pages: 2421 - 2440
Grazing increases functional richness but not functional divergence in Tibetan alpine meadow plant communities
Kechang Niu
Jin-Sheng He
Martin J. Lechowicz
Original Paper 09 July 2015 Pages: 2441 - 2452
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
Yuri A. Mazei
Original Paper 27 January 2016 Pages: 2453 - 2472
Cultural monuments and nature conservation: a review of the role of kurgans in the conservation and restoration of steppe vegetation
Balázs Deák
Béla Tóthmérész
Péter Török
Original Paper 25 March 2016 Pages: 2473 - 2490
An overview of biodiversity and conservation status of steppes of the Anatolian Biogeographical Region
Didem Ambarlı
Uğur S. Zeydanlı
Mecit Vural
Original Paper 21 July 2016 Pages: 2491 - 2519
Persistent and novel threats to the biodiversity of Kazakhstan’s steppes and semi-deserts
Johannes Kamp
Maxim A. Koshkin
Ruslan Urazaliev
Original Paper 19 March 2016 Pages: 2521 - 2541
Spontaneous steppe restoration on abandoned cropland in Kazakhstan: grazing affects successional pathways
Annika Brinkert
Norbert Hölzel
Johannes Kamp
Original Paper 04 November 2015 Pages: 2543 - 2561
Post-Soviet recovery of grassland vegetation on abandoned fields in the forest steppe zone of Western Siberia
Immo Kämpf
Wanja Mathar
Kathrin Kiehl
Original Paper 11 March 2016 Pages: 2563 - 2580

Volume 25, Issue 12

Step(pe) up! Raising the profile of the Palaearctic natural grasslands

The Palaearctic steppe biome: a new synthesis

Patterns and drivers of phytodiversity in steppe grasslands of Central Podolia (Ukraine)

Scale- and taxon-dependent patterns of plant diversity in steppes of Khakassia, South Siberia (Russia)

How does size and isolation affect patches of steppe-like vegetation on slumping hills in Transylvania, Romania?

Isolation and patch size drive specialist plant species density within steppe islands: a case study of kurgans in southern Ukraine

Phylogeographic patterns of steppe species in Eastern Central Europe: a review and the implications for conservation

Effects of land use and landscape patterns on Orthoptera communities in the Western Siberian forest steppe

Floristic diversity of meadow steppes in the Western Siberian Plain: effects of abiotic site conditions, management and landscape structure

Breeding ecology of the endemic Black Lark Melanocorypha yeltoniensis on natural steppe and abandoned croplands in post-Soviet Kazakhstan

Vegetation and soil responses to livestock grazing in Central Asian grasslands: a review of Chinese literature

Applying the social–ecological systems framework to the evaluation and design of payment for ecosystem service schemes in the Eurasian steppe

Grazing increases functional richness but not functional divergence in Tibetan alpine meadow plant communities

Mid- and late-Holocene vegetation history, climate and human impact in the forest-steppe ecotone of European Russia: new data and a regional synthesis

Cultural monuments and nature conservation: a review of the role of kurgans in the conservation and restoration of steppe vegetation

An overview of biodiversity and conservation status of steppes of the Anatolian Biogeographical Region

Persistent and novel threats to the biodiversity of Kazakhstan’s steppes and semi-deserts

Spontaneous steppe restoration on abandoned cropland in Kazakhstan: grazing affects successional pathways

Post-Soviet recovery of grassland vegetation on abandoned fields in the forest steppe zone of Western Siberia

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