TY - JOUR AU - Vegini, Emanuele AU - Cardarelli, Elisa AU - Martignoni, Marco AU - Lonati, Michele AU - Enri, Simone Ravetto TI - Does intensive cutting regime maintain lowland dry heathlands habitat? The case study of Milano Malpensa airport (Northern Italy) JF - URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING J2 - URBAN FOR URBAN GREE VL - 75 PY - 2022 PG - 8 SN - 1618-8667 DO - 10.1016/j.ufug.2022.127687 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/33236705 ID - 33236705 AB - Airports are anthropogenic settlements which can harbour large portions of open habitats, including grasslands, which may host high species richness. Milano Malpensa Airport is the second main Italian airfield. One of its main open habitats is lowland dry heathland, frequently mown to fulfil aircraft safety requirements. The same habitat was formerly common in the surroundings of the airport, but it is nowadays endangered by management cessation and consequent tree (mainly Prunus serotina) encroachment. We compared heathland structure and vegetation composition in Calluna vulgaris populations within Malpensa Airport and outside it, where three degradation stages (identified by increasing P. serotina encroachments) were studied. We performed 52 surveys (10 within the airport, 18 in the less encroached heathland, 12 in the intermediate, and 12 in the most encroached) where we visually estimated the percentage cover of all plant species and we assessed heather density and height. Heathlands inside the airport (subjected to up to two cuts per year at 5 cm above ground) were richer in plant species and with a higher rejuvenation rate, but with a relevant cover of alien species and of plants typical of more intensive and disturbed grasslands. Among the heathlands outside the airfield, the two with the highest encroachment harboured few, tall, degenerate heather individuals, and were invaded by P. serotina and Molinia arundinacea. Among all, the heathland showing the best habitat conservation status was that outside the airport with the lowest P. serotina encroachment. There, heather population structure assumed a typical shape of young communities, likely due to the high light availability related to the low tree species cover. Additionally, the limited presence of bare soil compared to heathland inside Malpensa likely hampered the colonization by both alien species and pioneer plants of other environments. These outcomes showed that an intensive cutting regime in lowland dry heathlands can counteract habitat loss due to tree encroachment, which has been confirmed as one of the main threats to its conservation. However, cut frequency and height should be carefully determined to hinder the expansion of plants belonging to other habitats while encouraging the typical floristic composition. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Vegini, Emanuele AU - Lastrucci, Lorenzo AU - Lazzaro, Lorenzo AU - Cardarelli, Elisa AU - Martignoni, Marco TI - Impact of Prunus serotina Ehrh. invasion on heathland vegetation: a case of study in North-Western Italy JF - BIOLOGIA (BRATISLAVA) J2 - BIOLOGIA VL - 75 PY - 2020 IS - 3 SP - 327 EP - 336 PG - 10 SN - 0006-3088 DO - 10.2478/s11756-019-00408-7 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/31921455 ID - 31921455 AB - Prunus serotina is one of the worst invasive alien plants throughout Europe, able to rapidly replace autochthonous vegetation and form monospecific stands both in open lands and forested areas. Invasion by shrubs and trees due to abandonment of traditional management practices, is one of the major threats to the conservation of “European dry heaths”, a priority habitat included in the Council Directive 92/43/EEC. The aim of this study was to assess the effects of P. serotina invasion on heathland vegetation in terms of species composition and cover, with special regards to the dominant Calluna vulgaris and Molinia arundinacea, in an area of North-Western Italy subjected to massive invasion by this alien species. We collected data on the plant cover along an invasion gradient in 10 linear transects running from P. serotina invaded stands towards non invaded ones. P. serotina differently affected the heathland vegetation. In particular, the cover of C. vulgaris and other typical heathland species such as Cytisus scoparius sharply decreased at P. serotina cover increasing. On the contrary, positive or no effect of P. serotina cover was found on M. arundinacea. Our results showed that shaded conditions created by the alien tree disfavored light demanding C. vulgaris and C. scoparius, enabling fast grower M. arundinacea to outcompete and replace them. This study emphasizes the urgency to develop management strategies to effectively control P. serotina spread in the area and to restore typical heathland species. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - THES AU - Filep, Rita TI - Biogeographic perspectives of Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus L. s. l.) invasion PY - 2018 SP - 97 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/27354935 ID - 27354935 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Najberek, Kamil AU - Pusz, Wojciech AU - Solarz, Wojciech AU - Olejniczak, Pawel TI - The seeds of success: release from fungal attack on seeds may influence the invasiveness of alien Impatiens JF - PLANT ECOLOGY J2 - PLANT ECOL VL - 219 PY - 2018 IS - 10 SP - 1197 EP - 1207 PG - 11 SN - 1385-0237 DO - 10.1007/s11258-018-0872-9 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/30425869 ID - 30425869 N1 - Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, al. Adama Mickiewicza 33, Kraków, 31-120, Poland Department of Plant Protection, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Plac Grunwaldzki 24A, Wrocław, 53-363, Poland Cited By :7 Export Date: 26 April 2021 CODEN: PLECF Correspondence Address: Najberek, K.; Institute of Nature Conservation, al. Adama Mickiewicza 33, Poland; email: najberek@iop.krakow.pl AB - Although closely related, Impatiens glandulifera and Impatiens balfourii differ in their invasiveness in Europe; only the former is highly invasive there. Following the assumptions of the enemy release hypothesis (ERH), we tested whether these differences may be explained by the levels of seed infestation by pathogenic fungi. Using seeds collected along the Swiss-Italian border, we recorded four true pathogens of seeds: Fusarium culmorum, F. oxysporum, F. sporotrichoides, and Giberella avenacea. In Italy the seeds of I. balfourii were infected by fungal pathogens more often than those of I. glandulifera, while in Switzerland both species were under the same level of pressure. However, the overall differences in pathogen abundance were consistent with the ERH: seeds of the more invasive species were attacked less. This could be a result of differences between the communities of fungal pathogens attacking the seeds of both species in each country. The number of colonies of secondary pathogens (Cladosporium cladosporioides, Alternaria alternata) correlated negatively with the number of colonies of true pathogens; we suggest that the secondary pathogens may have prevented the occurrence of the true pathogens. The reason for the between-country differences in the fungal pathogen communities is unclear. A possible explanation is that Italy and Switzerland differ in their road and green-area maintenance work schemes, which may have influenced pathogen pressure on seeds. This study is one of the few that offers results indicating that release from enemies may be crucial to the invasion success of plants as early as the seed stage. LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Novak, Nenad AU - Novak, Maja AU - Baric, Klara AU - Scepanovic, Maja AU - Ivic, Dario TI - Allelopathic potential of segetal and ruderal invasive alien plants [Alelopatski potencijal segetalnih i ruderalnih invazivnih alohtonih biljnih vrsta] JF - JOURNAL OF CENTRAL EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE J2 - J CENT EUR AGRIC VL - 19 PY - 2018 IS - 2 SP - 408 EP - 422 PG - 15 SN - 1332-9049 DO - 10.5513/JCEA01/19.2.2116 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/27572250 ID - 27572250 LA - English DB - MTMT ER - TY - JOUR AU - Filep, Rita AU - Pál, Róbert AU - Balázs, Viktória Lilla AU - Mayer, Mátyás AU - Nagy, Dávid AU - Cook, BJ AU - Farkas, Ágnes TI - Can seasonal dynamics of allelochemicals play a role in plant invasions? A case study with Helianthus tuberosus L. JF - PLANT ECOLOGY J2 - PLANT ECOL VL - 217 PY - 2016 IS - 12 SP - 1489 EP - 1501 PG - 13 SN - 1385-0237 DO - 10.1007/s11258-016-0662-1 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/3131727 ID - 3131727 N1 - Funding Agency and Grant Number: National Excellence Program-Elaborating and operating an inland student and researcher personal support system convergence program [TAMOP 4.2.4. A/2-11-1-2012-0001]; European Union; European Social Fund; European Union under REA [300639] Funding text: This research was realized in the frames of TAMOP 4.2.4. A/2-11-1-2012-0001 "National Excellence Program-Elaborating and operating an inland student and researcher personal support system convergence program". The project was subsidized by the European Union and co-financed by the European Social Fund (R. F.). Authors thank the funding of the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under REA Grant agreement number 300639 (R.W.P.). 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