Long-term spatial dynamics of Succisa pratensis in a changing rural landscape: linking dynamical modelling with historical maps

Abstract

We attempt to explain the current distribution of a long-lived perennial plant, Succisa pratensis, in a rural landscape in southern Sweden by linking its population biology with documented changes in the landscape, using a dynamical, spatially explicit

Keywords

• equilibrium
• extinction debt
• landscape manipulation experiments
• land-use change
• metapopulation dynamics
• population biology
• southern Sweden
• transient dynamics
• land-use history
• plant-species richness
• dispersal limitation
• hemiboreal landscape
• vegetation dynamics
• management history
• extinction debt
• forest
• habitat
• environment