Early vegetation succession on gravel bars of Czech Carpathian streams

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F18%3A00101347" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/18:00101347 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12224-018-9323-6" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12224-018-9323-6</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12224-018-9323-6" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12224-018-9323-6</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Early vegetation succession on gravel bars of Czech Carpathian streams

Original language description

Rivers with a natural flooding regime and gravel accumulations are an important natural habitat endangered by regulations and other types of human impact. Succession after disturbances by floods creates a mosaic of different vegetation types, some of them containing rare specialist species. We studied vegetation succession and changes in plant diversity on river gravel bars of four streams in the Western Carpathians and their foothills in the eastern Czech Republic. This area experienced extreme 50-year flood event in May 2010. Gravel bar vegetation was destroyed, some of the former bars were covered by sediments, and some new bars arose. We sampled gravel bar vegetation two months after the floods and repeated the sampling on each site during the next three years. Initial vegetation has developed through a sparse and species-rich stage into denser stands with more shade-tolerant species. In the fourth year, tall herbs, such as Urtica dioica, Phalaris arundinacea and the alien Impatiens glandulifera, dominated the communities, but shrub vegetation started to develop only in a few places. Species capable of vegetative dispersal prevailed over species dispersed by seeds only. Altitude and size of gravel/stone particles were identified as important factors affecting vegetation succession. The succession ran faster on gravelly substrates at lower altitudes than on stony substrates at higher altitudes. Although the studied streams are partly influenced by human interventions and host only few gravel bar specialists, they are of considerable conservation importance.

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

10602 - Biology (theoretical, mathematical, thermal, cryobiology, biological rhythm), Evolutionary biology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GB14-36079G" target="_blank" >GB14-36079G: Plant diversity analysis and synthesis centre (PLADIAS)</a><br>

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

Folia Geobotanica

ISSN

1211-9520

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

53

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

317-332

UT code for WoS article

000449764100006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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