Contrasting Environmental Drivers Determine Biodiversity Patterns in Epiphytic Lichen Communities along a European Gradient

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14310/20:00117349

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/8/12/1913/htm" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/8/12/1913/htm</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8121913" target="_blank" >10.3390/microorganisms8121913</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Contrasting Environmental Drivers Determine Biodiversity Patterns in Epiphytic Lichen Communities along a European Gradient

Original language description

Assessing the ecological impacts of environmental change on biological communities requires knowledge of the factors driving the spatial patterns of the three diversity facets along extensive environmental gradients. We quantified the taxonomic (TD), functional (FD), and phylogenetic diversity (PD) of lichen epiphytic communities in 23 beech forests along Europe to examine their response to environmental variation (climate, habitat quality, spatial predictors) at a continental geographic scale. We selected six traits related to the climatic conditions in forest ecosystems, the water-use strategy and the nutrient uptake, and we built a phylogenetic tree based on four molecular markers. FD and climate determined TD and PD, with spatial variables also affecting PD. The three diversity facets were primarily shaped by distinct critical predictors, with the temperature diurnal range affecting FD and PD, and precipitation of the wettest month determining TD. Our results emphasize the value of FD for explaining part of TD and PD variation in lichen communities at a broad geographic scale, while highlighting that these diversity facets provide complementary information about the communities&apos; response under changing environmental conditions. Furthermore, traits such as growth form, photobiont type, and reproductive strategy mediated the response of lichen communities to abiotic factors emerging as useful indicators of macroclimatic variations.

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

Microorganisms

ISSN

2076-2607

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

12

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000602609300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85097070510