TY - JOUR AU - Biró, Éva AU - Babai, Dániel AU - Bódis, Judit AU - Molnár, Zsolt TI - Lack of knowledge or loss of knowledge? Traditional ecological knowledge of population dynamics of threatened plant species in East-Central Europe JF - JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION J2 - J NAT CONSERV VL - 22 PY - 2014 IS - 4 SP - 318 EP - 325 PG - 8 SN - 1617-1381 DO - 10.1016/j.jnc.2014.02.006 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/2574344 ID - 2574344 AB - Use of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) is often recommended to relieve knowledge deficit in conservation. However, studies on traditional knowledge of threatened species are scarce, especially in Europe. Twenty-three interviews about 20 threatened plant species (name, habitat, flowering time, human use, population trends, causes of decline or growth) were conducted in each of the two contrasting landscapes, traditional in Romania (Gyimes), abandoned in Hungary (Zala). Amount of knowledge relevant to conservation was less than expected. Habitat and flowering time was known the best, and causes of population decline and growth the least. Better known plants had richer TEK on their dynamics (65% of species in Gyimes, and 35% in Zala). We documented many cases of positive and negative effects of manuring, fertilization, eradication, grazing, mowing, picking, drought, succession, and abandonment. Most knowledge originated from personal experience, and shared knowledge seemed to be limited. Knowledge deficiency may be explained by the stability of the landscape, and the ignorance of many threatened species by locals in Gyimes (lack of knowledge), and by the abandonment of traditional land use and ignorance in Zala (loss of knowledge). We argue that substantial TEK on threatened species may be expected for those species that have been utilized as a resource or have hindered the utilization of a resource. We argue that TEK can provide relevant information to conservation less at the population, and more at the habitat and landscape level. © 2014. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Babai, Dániel AU - Molnár, Zsolt TI - Multidimensionality and scale in a landscape ethnoecological partitioning of a mountainous landscape (Gyimes, eastern Carpathians, Romania). JF - JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY AND ETHNOMEDICINE J2 - J ETHNOBIOL ETHNOMED VL - 9 PY - 2013 IS - 1 PG - 21 SN - 1746-4269 DO - 10.1186/1746-4269-9-11 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/2208625 ID - 2208625 N1 - Cited By :22 Export Date: 6 January 2021 Correspondence Address: Babai, D.; Institute of Ethnology, Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Országház u. 30, H-1014 Budapest, Hungary; email: babai@etnologia.mta.hu AB - ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Traditional habitat knowledge is an understudied part of traditional knowledge. Though the number of studies increased world-wide in the last decade, this knowledge is still rarely studied in Europe. We document the habitat vocabulary used by Csango people, and determine features they used to name and describe these categories.Study area and methods: Csango people live in Gyimes (Carpathians, Romania). The area is dominated by coniferous forests, hay meadows and pastures. Animal husbandry is the main source of living. Data on the knowledge of habitat preference of 135 salient wild plant species were collected (2908 records, 44 interviewees). Data collected indoors were counterchecked during outdoor interviews and participatory field work. RESULTS: Csangos used a rich and sophisticated vocabulary to name and describe habitat categories. They distinguished altogether at least 142--148 habitat types, and named them by 242 habitat terms. We argue that the method applied and the questions asked ('what kind of place does species X like?') helped the often implicit knowledge of habitats to be verbalized more efficiently than usual in an interview. Habitat names were highly lexicalized and most of them were widely shared. The main features were biotic or abiotic, like land-use, dominant plant species, vegetation structure, successional stage, disturbance, soil characteristics, hydrological, and geomorphological features. Csangos often used indicator species (28, mainly herbaceous taxa) in describing habitats of species. To prevent reduction in the quantity and/or quality of hay, unnecessary disturbance of grasslands was avoided by the Csangos. This could explain the high number of habitats (35) distinguished dominantly by the type and severity of disturbance. Based on the spatial scale and topological inclusiveness of habitat categories we distinguished macro-, meso-, and microhabitats. CONCLUSIONS: Csango habitat categories were not organized into a single hierarchy, and the partitioning was multidimensional. Multidimensional description of habitats, made the nuanced characterization of plant species' habitats possible by providing innumerable possibilities to combine the most salient habitat features. We conclude that multidimensionality of landscape partitioning and the number of dimensions applied in a landscape seem to depend on the number of key habitat gradients in the given landscape. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Fischer, Joern AU - Hartel, Tibor AU - Kuemmerle, Tobias TI - Conservation policy in traditional farming landscapes JF - CONSERVATION LETTERS J2 - CONSERV LETT VL - 5 PY - 2012 IS - 3 SP - 167 EP - 175 PG - 9 SN - 1755-263X DO - 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00227.x UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/2906390 ID - 2906390 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - GEN AU - Csergő, Anna Mária AU - Demeter, László TI - Plant species diversity and traditional management in Eastern Carpathian grasslands PY - 2011 SP - 1 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/31237196 ID - 31237196 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Hartel, Tibor AU - Schweiger, O AU - Öllerer, Kinga AU - Cogalniceanu, D AU - Arntzen, JW TI - Amphibian distribution in a traditionally managed rural landscape of Eastern Europe: Probing the effect of landscape composition JF - BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION J2 - BIOL CONSERV VL - 143 PY - 2010 IS - 5 SP - 1118 EP - 1124 PG - 7 SN - 0006-3207 DO - 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.02.006 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/3193647 ID - 3193647 N1 - Megjegyzés-22000862 Z9: 8 Mihai Eminescu Trust, Strada Cojocarilor Nr. 10, 545400 Sighisoara, Romania Babeş-Bolyai University, Department of Taxonomy and Ecology, Clinicilor Str. 5-7, 400006 Cluj-Napoca, Romania Research Department Terrestrial Zoology, Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Community Ecology, Theodor-Lieser-Strasse 4, D-06120 Halle, Germany Institute of Biology - Romanian Academy, Splaiul Independenţei 296, 060031 Bucharest, Romania University Ovidius Constanta, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Blv. Mamaia 124, Romania Cited By :74 Export Date: 26 March 2020 CODEN: BICOB Correspondence Address: Hartel, T.; Mihai Eminescu Trust, Strada Cojocarilor Nr. 10, 545400 Sighisoara, Romania; email: asobeka@gmail.com Mihai Eminescu Trust, Strada Cojocarilor Nr. 10, 545400 Sighisoara, Romania Babeş-Bolyai University, Department of Taxonomy and Ecology, Clinicilor Str. 5-7, 400006 Cluj-Napoca, Romania Research Department Terrestrial Zoology, Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Community Ecology, Theodor-Lieser-Strasse 4, D-06120 Halle, Germany Institute of Biology - Romanian Academy, Splaiul Independenţei 296, 060031 Bucharest, Romania University Ovidius Constanta, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Blv. Mamaia 124, Romania Cited By :74 Export Date: 12 June 2020 CODEN: BICOB Correspondence Address: Hartel, T.; Mihai Eminescu Trust, Strada Cojocarilor Nr. 10, 545400 Sighisoara, Romania; email: asobeka@gmail.com AB - A massive decline of biodiversity is caused by land-use changes. Efforts must therefore be made to better understand the factors that govern organismal distribution, especially for countries where traditional management is about to be intensified such as in Romania. We here document the spatial distribution of amphibians from a Romanian rural landscape where land-use is still largely traditional. We related the occurrence of nine amphibian species and species richness to measures of composition and configuration of the landscape surrounding 54 ponds at three spatial scales: circular areas of 400, 600 and 800 m radii. Busy roads most severely impacted single species and amphibian richness whereas landscape composition measures, such as cover of urban areas, agricultural areas, pastures, forests and wetlands were of little importance. We suggest that the relative unimportance of landscape compositional measures on amphibians is a consequence of the traditional management of these landscapes that keep the environmental conditions favorable for most species. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Babai, Dániel AU - Molnár, Zsolt TI - Népi növényzetismeret Gyimesben II.: termőhely- és élőhelyismeret JF - BOTANIKAI KÖZLEMÉNYEK J2 - BOTANIKAI KÖZL VL - 96 PY - 2009 SP - 145 EP - 173 PG - 29 SN - 0006-8144 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/228179 ID - 228179 LA - Hungarian DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Molnár, Zsolt AU - Babai, Dániel TI - Népi növényzetismeret Gyimesben I.: növénynevek, népi taxonómia, az egyéni és közösségi növényismeret JF - BOTANIKAI KÖZLEMÉNYEK J2 - BOTANIKAI KÖZL VL - 96 PY - 2009 IS - 1-2 SP - 117 EP - 143 PG - 27 SN - 0006-8144 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/124885 ID - 124885 LA - Hungarian DB - MTMT ER - TY - CHAP AU - Molnár, Zsolt AU - Bartha, Sándor AU - Babai, Dániel ED - Szabó, Péter ED - Hédl, Radim TI - Traditional ecological knowledge as a concept and data source for historical ecology, vegetation science and conservation biology: a Hungarian perspective T2 - Human nature PB - Institute of Botany AS CR CY - Brno SN - 9788086188287 PY - 2008 SP - 14 EP - 27 PG - 14 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/124711 ID - 124711 N1 - Megjegyzés-24927888 15., 16., 16. Megjegyzés-24925552 15., 20. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - BOOK AU - Borhidi, Attila TI - Magyarország Növénytársulásai ET - 0 PB - Akadémiai Kiadó CY - Budapest PY - 2003 SP - 610 SN - 9630579839 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/123980 ID - 123980 N1 - Megjegyzés-20514169 pp. 263 LA - Hungarian DB - MTMT ER -