The study is based on the largest synthesis of all available data on vegetation change in the Czech Republic over time, including data from repeated sampling of 1154 vegetation plots from 53 previous studies.
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📈 Winners: Trees, shrubs, grasses, tall plants, plants with mesomorphic leaves, allogamous plants, plants adapted to the dispersal by animals, nutrient-demanding plants and those adapted to rapid colonization of newly disturbed areas.
📉 Losers: Non-clonal herbs, plants with scleromorphic or helomorphic leaves, apomictic and insect-pollinated plants, light-demanding plants and habitat specialists.
🔍 Main drivers of change: Eutrophication, climate change, changes in the hydrological regime and vegetation succession following the abandonment of traditional land management.
🌳🌾Habitat-specific changes: Some trends differed between habitat types. For example, wet habitats tended to become drier, while dry habitats became slightly wetter due to successional processes. This indicates increasing homogenization of species composition between habitat types.
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