Biodiversity hanging by a thread: the importance of fungal litter-trapping systems in tropical rainforests

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2011.1115" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2011.1115</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2011.1115" target="_blank" >10.1098/rsbl.2011.1115</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Biodiversity hanging by a thread: the importance of fungal litter-trapping systems in tropical rainforests

Original language description

The exceptionally high species richness of arthropods in tropical rainforests hinges on the complexity of the forest itself: that is, on features such as the high plant diversity, the layered nature of the canopy and the abundance and the diversity of epiphytes and litter. We here report on one important, but almost completely neglected, piece of this complex jigsaw-the intricate network of rhizomorph-forming fungi that ramify through the vegetation of the lower canopy and intercept falling leaf litter.We show that this litter-trapping network is abundant and intercepts substantial amounts of litter (257.3 kg ha(-1)): this exceeds the amount of material recorded in any other rainforest litter-trapping system. Experimental removal of this fungal network resulted in a dramatic reduction in both the abundance (decreased by 70.2 +/- 4.1%) and morphospecies richness (decreased by 57.4 +/- 5.1%) of arthropods. Since the lower canopy levels can contain the highest densities of arthropods, th

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

EG - Zoology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2012

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

BIOLOGY LETTERS

ISSN

1744-9561

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

4

Pages from-to

397-400

UT code for WoS article

000303933300023

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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