Eurasian kurgan database – A new initiation for conserving steppic burial mounds
EurÁzsiai kurgÁn AdatbÁzis ⇓ Áj nemzetkÖzi adatbÁzis a kunhalmok vÉdelmÉÉrt
Deák B. Bede Á. Tóth Cs.A. Valkó O. Lisetskii F. Buryak Z. Bragina T.M. Apostolova I. Bán M. Báthori F.
2021Szent István University, Institute of Nature Conservation and Landscape Management
Journal of Landscape Ecology
2021#18Issue 297 - 111 pp.
Eurasian steppes have an outstanding role in conserving grassland biodiversity. However, due to the large-scale landscape transformation during the past centuries in many regions stands of dry grassland habitats have been conserved only in the form of small terrestrial habitat islands. Such habitat islands are often present on the ancient burial mounds, the so-called kurgans. Kurgans have an outstanding cultural and historical value, and also important objects for nature conservation. Despite their large numbers (there are approximately half-million kurgans in Eurasia) and important conservation role information regarding their locality, distribution and conservation status are still lacking. To provide a solution to this problem we established an open, freely accessible international database, which supports the collection and cataloguing of the data about kurgans. At present, the database contains 2645 records of which 563 provide information on the locality of the kurgans, and 2082 records provide detailed attributes of the kurgans involving locality, photo documentation, conservational and cultural values, and other factors such as land-use type, threatening factors, presence of woody species. The database provides an easy-to-use data-source to conservationists, researchers and also to the whole society involving the civil sector. We aim to initiate international cooperation, which allows a systematic data collection and provides a comprehensive report on the up-to-date conservational and cultural values of the Eurasian kurgans.
Biodiversity , Cultural heritage , Dry grassland , Habitat island , Nature protection , Steppe
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Debreceni Deák Ferenc Tehetségfejlesztő Középiskolai Szakkollégium
Belgorod State National Research University
Kostanay State Pedagogical University named after Omirzak Sultangazin
Azov-Black Sea Branch of the FSBSI “VNIRO” (“AzNIIRKH”)
Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research
Department of Evolutionary Zoology and Human Biology
MTA-DE Behavioral Ecology Research Group
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