Variation of snail assemblages in hay meadows: disentangling predictive power of abiotic environment and vegetation

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F12%3A00061490" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/12:00061490 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4002/040.055.0110" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.4002/040.055.0110</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4002/040.055.0110" target="_blank" >10.4002/040.055.0110</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Variation of snail assemblages in hay meadows: disentangling predictive power of abiotic environment and vegetation

Original language description

We studied snail assemblages at 39 plots in hay meadows of the White Carpathians, Czech Republic. We recorded snails quantitatively in 1 m2 quadrats, along with vegetation and several measured variables in the same plots in order to investigate the influence of selected environmental factors on meadow snail species composition and richness. The study aimed to determine the extent to which it is possible to use vegetation as a predictor of land snail composition by comparing the predictive power of threegroups of variables: (i) measured variables and climatic factors, (ii) vegetation, and (iii) Ellenberg indicator values for plants estimated from plant composition. Detrended correspondence analysis revealed that both snail and plant assemblages were strongly affected by the main environmental gradient running from calcium-poor, wet and cool upland sites to calcium-rich, dry and warm lowland sites. The main changes of vegetation and snail species composition were highly correlated (rS =

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>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<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

Malacologia

ISSN

0076-2997

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

55

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

151-162

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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