Hybrid ecosystems can contribute to local biodiversity conservation

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F16%3A43890918" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/16:43890918 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/67985939:_____/16:00472883

Result on the web

<a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10531-016-1218-3" target="_blank" >http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10531-016-1218-3</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-016-1218-3" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10531-016-1218-3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Hybrid ecosystems can contribute to local biodiversity conservation

Original language description

Calcareous grasslands have become severely threatened habitats in Europe. The aim of this study was to investigate the changes in plant species richness, and functional and phylogenetic diversity in northern Estonian calcareous (alvar) grasslands resampled after 90 years of land-use change. Functional traits characterizing species that have benefited most from decreased habitat area and altered environmental conditions, and additional species that can potentially inhabit the remaining grassland patches were identified. Also changes in the relative amount of habitat-specific species were studied to detect a possible decrease in habitat integrity. Although grasslands in the studied region had lost most of their original area (similar to 90 %), species richness had substantially increased due to invasion by more competitive, nutrient-demanding native species. Functional diversity generally increased, whereas phylogenetic diversity showed no response to altered conditions. Overall, these grasslands have lost their integrity as calcareous grassland habitat type in the region, because the relative amount of habitat-specific characteristic species has declined significantly. However, although the grasslands have transformed to a 'hybrid' habitat type and restoration to their previous state is likely not reasonable, such degraded species-rich grassland fragments can still be recognized as important habitats to preserve high local biodiversity and several characteristic species of calcareous grasslands. As current landscapes consist of an increasing number of hybrid and novel communities, new tools to supplement traditional conservation or restoration practices are necessary to recognize and maintain regions and habitats of high local biodiversity.

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/GA16-15012S" target="_blank" >GA16-15012S: Drivers of communities' temporal stability: the role of functional differences between and within species</a><br>

Continuities

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

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Biodiversity and Conservation

ISSN

0960-3115

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

25

Issue of the periodical within the volume

14

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

3023-3041

UT code for WoS article

000387715100010

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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