Interpretations of Vegetation Changes of Some Villages Rangelands in Çankiri Province of Turkey

Long term mismanagement of the rangelands resulted in serious rangeland deterioration throughout Turkey.Monitoring of rangelands provides information on the status and dynamics and measures how to deal with different problems encountered.In many studies ecological interpretations are based on the observation of plant species existing on the rangeland vegetation type.The objective of this study was to determine the status and make ecological interpretations on three step rangelands of Bakırlı, Gündoğmuş, and Karaören villages of Çankırı province in the highlands of Central Anatolia.The rangeland conditions and health classes of rangelands were found the same as good and unhealthy in Bakırlı, and Gündoğmuş sites, but they were fair and unhealthy in Karaören site, respectively.Correspondence Analysis with four axis explained 55.9 % of the variance of species data and Canonical Correspondence Analysis explained 38.5 % of the variance of species data and 90.8 % of species-environment relationship.Sound management techniques could be immediately implemented for the improvement and the manipulation of the study rangeland sites.