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Conservation of the priority natural habitat 62CO* ponto-sarmatian steppes on the territory of the European Union—historic review with emphasis of comparison and current perspectives

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In the European Union, natural habitat 62CO* Ponto-Sarmatian steppes is limited in its range and occurs only in two member states—Bulgaria and Romania. This grassland habitat was a subject to various impacts over the years and suffers on a decrease in its area, changes in species composition and occurance of invasive and ruderal species. The most significant threats to the habitat are related to intensive or excessive grazing of livestock, abandonment of grassland management (e.g., cessation of grazing or mowing), afforestation, plowing, conversion into agricultural land, conversion to other land uses (tourism, recreation, urbanization, construction of infrastructure), construction of energy plants and natural succession. In the present study we provide a comparative analysis of the actions aiming to protect the priority natural habitat 62CO* Ponto-Sarmatian steppes on the territory of EU. In addition, we investigated and compared the species composition of defined sites from 62CO* in Romania and Bulgaria to obtain up to date information and to confirm the current presence of the habitat. We discuss on the necessary measures for effective management of this protected habitat, as well as on the needed efforts to achieve favourable conservation status.

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We thank the scientific staff of Shumen University (Shumen, Bulgaria) for their support. Project No. RD-08-113/23.02.2022 of “Konstantin Preslavsky” University of Shumen provided partial financial support. For Romania, the fieldwork was partly supported by the project ”Integrated Management of the North Dobrogean Plateau” (MIPoNoDo)—POIM—cod SMIS116964.

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  1. Faculty of Natural Sciences, Konstantin Preslavski University of Shumen, 115 Universitetska Str., 9700, Shumen, Bulgaria

    Nikolay Nedyalkov, Teodora Koynova, Nikolay Natchev & Maria Kaschieva

  2. Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Ovidius University of Constanta, 1 Universitatii Alley, 900470, Constanta, Romania

    Daniyar Memedemin

  3. Department of Evolutionary Biology, Unit for Integrative Zoology, University of Vienna, Djerassiplatz 1, 1030, Vienna, Austria

    Nikolay Natchev

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection and analysis were performed by MK, NN, DM, TK and NN. The first draft of the manuscript was written by MK and NN and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Nedyalkov, N., Memedemin, D., Koynova, T. et al. Conservation of the priority natural habitat 62CO* ponto-sarmatian steppes on the territory of the European Union—historic review with emphasis of comparison and current perspectives. Biodivers Conserv 32, 755–776 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-022-02522-6

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