Forest snail diversity and its environmental predictors along a sharp climatic gradient in southern Siberia

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14310/18:00101006 RIV/00216208:11620/18:10382858

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2018.02.009" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2018.02.009</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2018.02.009" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.actao.2018.02.009</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Forest snail diversity and its environmental predictors along a sharp climatic gradient in southern Siberia

Original language description

Diversity patterns of forest snail assemblages have been studied mainly in Europe. Siberian snail faunas have different evolutionary history and colonization dynamics than European faunas, but studies of forest snail diversity are almost missing from Siberia. Therefore, we collected snails at 173 forest sites in the Russian Altai and adjacent areas, encompassing broad variation in climate and forest types. We found 51 species, with a maximum of 15 and an average of seven species per site. The main gradient in species composition was related to soil pH, a variable that also positively correlates with snail abundances. The second gradient was associated with climate characteristics of winter. We observed significant differences in both species richness and composition among six forest types defined based on vegetation classification. Hemiboreal continental forests were the poorest of these types but hosted several species characteristic of European full-glacial stages of the Late Pleistocene. A high snow cover in Temperate coniferous and mixed forests, protecting the soil from freezing, allowed the frost-sensitive large-bodied ( &gt; 10 mm) species to inhabit this forest type. In contrast to most of the European snail assemblages studied so far we found that the factors responsible for the variation in species richness differed from those driving species composition. This may be attributed to the sharp climatic gradient and the presence of the cold-adapted species typical of the Pleistocene cold stages. We suggest that southern Siberian forests hosting these species can serve as modern analogues of full-glacial forests in periglacial Central and Eastern Europe.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Acta Oecologica

ISSN

1146-609X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

88

Issue of the periodical within the volume

April

Country of publishing house

FR - FRANCE

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

1-8

UT code for WoS article

000432765600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85042666989