White Carpathian grasslands: can local ecological factors explain their extraordinary species richness?

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<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F12%3A00061014" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/12:00061014 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

White Carpathian grasslands: can local ecological factors explain their extraordinary species richness?

Original language description

Semi-dry grasslands in the White Carpathian (Bílé Karpaty) Mountains on the Czech-Slovak border are famous for their extremely high species richness. In places they contain more than 130 species of vascular plants per 100m2 and for some plot sizes they holdworld records in the number of vascular plant species, but the reasons for this are poorly understood. Here we ask whether the high number of species in these grasslands can be explained by local ecological factors.We compared the White Carpathian grasslands with similar grasslands in adjacent areas in the west (southern Moravia) and the east (InnerWestern Carpathians), which are on average notably poorer in species than those in the White Carpathians. In both of these areas, we sampled grasslands that were among the speciesrichest in the regional context and had a similar physiognomy, species composition and ecology as those in the White Carpathians.

Czech name

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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/SP%2F2D3%2F54%2F07" target="_blank" >SP/2D3/54/07: Synthesis of data on the state of grassland biodiversity in the White Carpathians Protected Landscape Area aimed at biodiversity preservation of this ecosystem</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2012

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Preslia

ISSN

0032-7786

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Volume of the periodical

84

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

311-325

UT code for WoS article

000308715500003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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