A multifaceted approach for beech forest conservation: Environmental drivers of understory plant diversity
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/67985939:_____/19:00506180
Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.flora.2019.05.006" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.flora.2019.05.006</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A multifaceted approach for beech forest conservation: Environmental drivers of understory plant diversity
Original language description
Studies addressing multiple aspects of biodiversity simultaneously (i.e., multifaceted approaches) can quantify plant diversity-environment links comprehensively - this is because of the multidimensional nature of plant diversity. However, multifaceted studies are scant in forests. Here, we examined taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity patterns in 19 beech forest understory plots in two areas belonging to a biodiversity monitoring plan in Tuscany, Italy. We performed linear mixed effect models to quantify the influence of elevation (proxy for macroclimate), aspect (affecting microclimate), and basal area (related to microclimate and stand maturity) on diversity facets of vascular plants. Elevation played a major role in shaping diversity: highelevation plots were less rich in species and had a reduced functional diversity of storage organs that may promote cold-tolerance. Conversely, the diversity of flowering phenology increased with elevation, thus lowelevation vegetation converged functionally towards a common, short blooming period. This strategy may be advantageous for understory plants in the deciduous beech forests experiencing longer growing seasons, hence more extended canopy closure at lower elevations. Basal area negatively affected foliar and multiple traits functional diversity which may be associated with highly selective and competitive environment for light capture in closed canopy, mature stands. Slope aspect did not exert any significant effect on diversity facets, neither did interactions among predictors. Overall, these results confirm the usefulness of implementing multifaceted approaches to i) better understand the influence of environmental drivers on different aspects of plant diversity, and ii) inform the biodiversity monitoring plan that is in place in the study forests by systematically including functional diversity instead of taxonomic metrics only.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - 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
Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Flora
ISSN
0367-2530
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
256
Issue of the periodical within the volume
JUL 2019
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
85-91
UT code for WoS article
000470109800010
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85066086906