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• Investigation of carbon dioxide emissions from underutilized grassland

  15-25

  Krisztina Varga

  István Csizi

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  250

  Climate change-induced extreme changes are making phytomass yields of extensive grasslands in continental areas increasingly dependent on the season. This situation is exacerbated, inter alia, by the decline in grazing livestock production due to a lack of quality labour, and thus by an increase in the proportion of unused or under-utilised grassland. In our experiments, we have refined the effects of a decade of zero, mulch, mowing and meadow utilisation on carbon emissions, soil moisture and soil temperature during two different types of years. We found that zero tillage with accumulated duff in the absence of utilization had the highest carbon dioxide emission values in different years, even at lower soil moisture values. Our results confirm the fact that fallow grasslands can be considered a source of risk due to their increased greenhouse gas emissions.

• Degradáció mérése alulhasznosított természetes gyepen

  47-54.

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  92

  Az állattartást kiszolgáló gyep művelési ág szerepe jelentősen hanyatlik a hazai legeltetett állatlétszám csökkenésével, ennek következtében növekszik az alulhasznosított, illetve az egyáltalán nem hasznosított gyepek területe. A Debreceni Egyetem, Agrár Kutatóintézetek Tangazdaság, Karcagi Kutatóintézetében négyféle gyephasznosítási módot vizsgáltunk három ismétlésben egy ecsetpázsitos sziki réten. Vizsgálatunk során meghatároztuk a kísérleti terület növényszerkezet összetételét, illetve meghatároztuk a talaj szén-dioxid-emisszióját, a talaj hőmérsékletét és a talaj nedvességét.

• Degradation degree evolution under different grassland management

  35-44

  Krisztina Varga

  Istvan Csizi

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  96

  The objective of this manuscript is to clarify the changes in vegetation structure of an extensively managed grassland association under different land use practices. In the grasslands of the Hungarian Great Plain, the westernmost part of the Eurasian steppe, the largely decreasing grazing livestock numbers and the almost disappearing pastoral grazing make the topic very topical. We analysed the last 4 years of the study period 2009-2020 and found that the lowest degradation rates were measured in the meadow utilisation management, with values ranging from 0.277-0.463 in the 11th year of the experiment. And the highest degradation values were measured in the treatment with the overgrazing mode, with degradation degrees 3.43-5.0 in the 11th year of the experiment. In the treatment demonstrating the effect of overgrazing, we measured a high increase in the cover value of the weed Hordenum murinum, which is very dangerous for sheep, between 2017 and 2020, with an average of 107.6%.

• Development of the plant population structure of grassland communities with different land use according to WB values

  59-64

  Krisztina Varga

  Istvan Csizi

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  37

  We carried out our phenological study in the underutilized grassland of the Karcag Research Institute between 2017 and 2020, where we analyzed the effects of the following utilization methods on plant structure: zero utilization, mowing once a year, mulching once a year and meadow utilization. The Balázs quadrat method was used to record the grassland association. The recorded plants were grouped and analysed according to Borhidi's water demand (WB) ecological indicators.