The influence of light and nutrient availability on herb layer species richness in oak-dominated forests in central Bohemia

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The influence of light and nutrient availability on herb layer species richness in oak-dominated forests in central Bohemia

Original language description

We examined to what extent the internal site factors (light and soil conditions) are responsible for herb layer diversity in oak-dominated forest stands growing on different substrates in central Bohemia (Czech Republic). Species richness correlated positively with soil pH and negatively with nitrogen (N) concentration in humus (P.05). The highest species richness was found at sites with not only low N soil concentration, but also simultaneously with high phosphorus (P) soil concentration. Despite this finding, however, herb layer diversity is evidently threatened much more in P-rich soils than in P-poor soils. It seems that the enhancement of N in an ecosystem due to litter accumulation and N deposition generally leads to only a minor increase in Navailability at P-poor sites, but a considerable increase at P-rich sites. Therefore, species richness can be exceptionally high at P-rich sites, but only under conditions of strong N limitation.

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - 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/SM%2F640%2F11%2F03" target="_blank" >SM/640/11/03: Problems of anthropogenly caused eutrophication of terrestrial ecosystems and related phenomenons inclusive of follwing up of trends of total atmospheric deposition of ecologically important substances into forest ecosystems</a><br>

Continuities

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

Publication year

2009

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Plant Ecology

ISSN

1385-0237

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Volume of the periodical

205

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000270289200005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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