Our paper about the conservational role of ancient steppic burial mounds - published in the journal Biodiversity and Conservation - became freely available: the pdf of the paper can be downloaded freely from the following link: https://rdcu.be/7vg1.
Deák B., Tóthmérész B., Valkó O., Sudnik-Wójcikowska B., Bragina T.M., Moysiyenko I., Apostolova I., Bykov N., Dembicz I., Török P. (2016): Cultural monuments and nature conservation: The role of kurgans in maintaining steppe vegetation. Biodiversity and Conservation 25: 2473–2490.
In our paper (published in 2016, received 29 citations on Google Scholar so far) in cooperation with Bulgarian, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian and Kazakh scientists we revealed the role of burial mounds (so called ’kurgans’) in conserving steppe vegetation in transformed landscapes, we reviewed the factors that are responsible for the extremely high biodiversity maintained by the kurgans, and the factors that threaten their existence.
We pointed out that burial mounds of the steppes have essential role both in preserving our historical and natural heritage, thus their protection highly contributes to the conservation of the ancient steppic cultures, landscapes and biota. Based on our findings we provided recommendations to fine-tune the protection of these important landscape elements.
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| Isolated steppe vegetation on a kurgan from the Iron Age Even the kurgan is surrounded by extent arable lands it preserved a species rich fragement of the original vegetation |
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