Katalin Szel-Toth

1 INTRODUCTION Studying the relationship between climate change and the spread of invasive species has been at the forefront of research in the last decades (Hulme, 2017; Ravi et al., 2022).

Abstract Studying the relationship between biodiversity patterns and processes in vegetation has been at the centre of interest in vegetation ecology for several decades. By studying the biomass of loess and alkaline grasslands along a water and salinity gradient, we aimed to analyse species diversity and CSR functional type patterns.