Drivers of plant species composition in alder-dominated forests with contrasting connectivity

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11273-019-09700-4" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11273-019-09700-4</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11273-019-09700-4" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11273-019-09700-4</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Drivers of plant species composition in alder-dominated forests with contrasting connectivity

Original language description

The effects of local and regional environmental variables as well as spatial gradients on the plant species composition of two types of alder-dominated forests (riparian forests and alder carrs) with contrasting connectivity were studied across the Western Carpathians from Hungary through Slovakia to Poland. We used large vegetation (240 sampling plots) and environmental (24 variables) datasets, which were accompanied by spatial variables represented by principal coordinates of neighbour matrices. Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) of the two datasets revealed 13 and 29 variables with significant effects on variation in species composition of alder carrs and riparian alder forests, which jointly explained 41.2% and 36.4% of the variability, respectively. Altitude was the most important factor explaining 7.7% of the variability in the species composition of alder carrs and 8.2% in riparian alder forests. Variation partitioning in CCA revealed that local variables were crucial drivers for species composition patterns in alder carrs, while spatial processes unrelated to the measured environmental variables shaped the vegetation structure of riparian forests.

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

10618 - Ecology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Wetlands Ecology And Management

ISSN

0923-4861

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

28

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

137-150

UT code for WoS article

000514996000009

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85076445189