Exploiting hot-spots; effective determination of lichen diversity in a Carpathian virgin forest

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Alternative codes found

RIV/67985939:_____/18:00495382 RIV/00023272:_____/18:10134120 RIV/60460709:41320/18:78491 RIV/00216208:11310/18:10389835

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203540" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0203540</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Exploiting hot-spots; effective determination of lichen diversity in a Carpathian virgin forest

Original language description

Although lichenized fungi are among the most reliable indicators of forest quality and represent a considerable part of forest biodiversity, methods maximizing completeness of their species lists per area are lacking. Employing a novel methodological approach including a multi-expert competition and a search for local hot-spot plots, we have obtained outstanding data about epiphytic lichen biota in a part of the largest Central European virgin forest reserve Uholka-Shyrokyi Luh situated in Ukrainian Carpathians. Our field research consisted of two four-day periods: (1) an overall floristic survey and a search for spots with raised lichen diversity, and (2) survey in four one-hectare plots established in lichen diversity hot-spots along an altitudinal gradient. Recorded alpha-diversities in plots ranged from 181-228 species, but estimated species richness is in the range 207-322 species. Detected gamma-diversity was 387 species; estimates are 409-484 species. 93% of the species found in the forest were recorded in plots, but only 65% outside the plots. This underlines the high-efficiency of the multi-expert competitive survey in diversity hot-spot plots. Species richness in each one-hectare plot was equal to the numbers of species obtained by floristic surveys of much larger old-growth forest areas in Central Europe. Gamma-diversity detected in the Uholka primeval forest far exceeded all numbers achieved in Central European old-growth forests. Our method appears to be both effective (it obtains a more nearly complete inventory of species) and practical (the resources required are not unreasonably large).

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

10611 - Plant sciences, botany

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

PLoS One

ISSN

1932-6203

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

13

Issue of the periodical within the volume

9

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000444545800044

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85053280898