Is coal combustion the last chance for vanishing insects of inland drift sand dunes in Europe?

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F13%3A10146009" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/13:10146009 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60077344:_____/13:00425786 RIV/60076658:12310/13:43885399
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2013.03.027" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2013.03.027</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2013.03.027" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.biocon.2013.03.027</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Is coal combustion the last chance for vanishing insects of inland drift sand dunes in Europe?
Original language description
Inland sand dunes rank highly in the most threatened environments throughout Europe, suffering accelerating losses of associated biodiversity. Although there is increasing evidence that vanishing species may find refuges at post-industrial barrens, insects specialised for the highly specific and extreme conditions of drift sands have not been known to colonise any surrogates. Because fly ash deposits share some substrate physical attributes with drift sands, we hypothesised that they could be colonisedby drift sand communities. Here, we show that these relatively common landscape structures accompanying coal combustion indeed host insects of extraordinary conservation value. Surveying two fly ash deposits in Central Europe, we found an unusually highdiversity of 227 species of bees and wasps, including 72 nationally endangered species (including four thought regionally extinct and 13 critically endangered), and 31 drift sand specialists. This conservation potential seems to diminish
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
EH - Ecology - communities
OECD FORD branch
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GAP504%2F12%2F2525" target="_blank" >GAP504/12/2525: Arthropods of anthropogenic fine-substrated habitats: community structure, conservation potential and species functional traits</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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