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Table 2 Herder’s justifications of the groups of pictures (typical examples)

From: Classification of pasture habitats by Hungarian herders in a steppe landscape (Hungary)

No.

Herder’s description of the cluster

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

1

állás places, these form a separate group!

X

X

X

                    

2

not wet, not salty, true telek, first class

X

X

X

 

X

                  

3

telek, állás or edge of it, good earth

X

X

X

    

X

               

4

this is good, good soil structure, better than the salty

X

X

X

  

X

X

X

               

5

better, telek-like areas

X

X

X

X

  

X

X

               

6

good grass

 

X

 

X

X

  

X

               

7

these are all usefull grasses!

X

X

 

X

X

X

X

X

X

              

8

mixed grass, better quality, no blind szík

   

X

X

X

X

 

X

              

9

like telek, better, fatter pastures

   

X

X

 

X

X

               

10

with fescue on the partos, all with fescue

     

X

X

X

X

              

11

this is szík, with different grasses, a perfect group!

     

X

X

 

X

              

12

true pasture, better or worse, but animals can graze

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

      

X

X

X

X

X

    

13

with fescue

     

X

X

 

X

    

X

         

14

not a salt patch: fescue and Alopecurus

     

X

X

       

X

        

15

not wild szík, second class white earth

     

X

X

X

X

   

X

          

16

spring pasture: Trifolium and chamomile

      

X

X

X

   

X

          

17

these are pastures with grasses

      

X

X

      

X

        

18

Alopecurus for hay, Trifolium, but good also for grazing

      

X

X

      

X

        

19

szík patka and szík streams

   

X

     

X

X

X

           

20

salty with fescue, these plants all need the same habitat, all are salty places

     

X

  

X

X

X

X

X

X

         

21

szík patches, all like salty earth or the edge of it

        

X

X

X

X

X

          

22

true blind szík, salty

         

X

X

X

X

X

         

23

with szíkfok, tussocky, salty

         

X

X

X

X

X

  

X

      

24

salty places

   

X

X

    

X

X

X

X

X

    

X

 

X

  

25

not lapos, not partos, you can not drain

           

X

X

X

   

X

X

    

26

with Alopecurus, does not fit in any groups, though wet

              

X

        

27

wet areas, not partos

       

X

 

X

X

X

 

X

 

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

28

with Alopecurus

              

X

X

       

29

tussocky, and wet

             

X

 

X

X

      

30

water-logged pasture, dry in summer

             

X

    

X

X

X

  

31

water plants, they go into one group!

              

X

    

X

X

X

X

32

tussocky, this is lapos with reed

              

X

 

X

  

X

X

X

X

33

bad grass, Typha, worthless

              

X

  

X

X

X

X

X

 

34

water-logged places, marshy areas

                

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

35

totally wet, never dries out

                 

X

X

X

  

X

36

all is lapos, water does not go out, only in strong drought

                  

X

X

X

X

X

37

it does not have a pair, deep water

                      

X