High-, medium-, and low-dispersal animal taxa
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00020702%3A_____%2F23%3AN0000094" target="_blank" >RIV/00020702:_____/23:N0000094 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.4441" target="_blank" >https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.4441</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4441" target="_blank" >10.1002/ecs2.4441</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
High-, medium-, and low-dispersal animal taxa
Original language description
Urbanized areas are rapidly expanding into a variety of habitats. Urbanization and suburbanization are often associated with changes in biodiversity, which are naturally influenced by biotic interactions and abiotic habitat characteristics. The main cause of changes caused by suburbanization is fragmentation. Its impacts vary between animals with different dispersal abilities. We focused on studying the responses of three taxa with different dispersal abilities: birds as a relatively high-dispersal taxon, medium-dispersal butterflies, and low-dispersal land snails. We studied how biotic factors as well as habitat structural and fragmentation characteristics explain the community composition of the three study taxa in urban grasslands in the city of Pardubice (Czech Republic). Birds were the most species-rich taxon followed by butterflies. Land snails had species-poor grassland communities. Species composition analysis indicated species overlap among the studied taxa. Bird species composition covaried with butterfly species richness and reciprocally. Both taxa were significantly influenced by the amount of woody vegetation within the grassland. Bird community composition was also influenced by fragmentation characteristics, namely the distance to the nearest built-up area. Urban growth most likely leads to changes in the characteristics of animal communities associated with former lowland natural grasslands, deteriorating the communities of low-dispersal land snails while allowing birds that have generally higher dispersal abilities to thrive. Our results show that in assessing the impact of urbanization on biodiversity, attention should also be paid to low-dispersal animal taxa.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10619 - Biodiversity conservation
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ecosphere
ISSN
2150-8925
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
14
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
e4441
UT code for WoS article
000940344800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85149891914