The impact of a forest fire event on moth assemblages in Western Bohemia, Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60077344:_____/21:00557559 RIV/00228745:_____/21:N0000038

Result on the web

<a href="https://bioone.org/journals/polish-journal-of-ecology/volume-69/issue-3-4/15052249PJE2021.69.3.002/The-Impact-of-a-Forest-Fire-Event-on-Moth-Assemblages/10.3161/15052249PJE2021.69.3.002.full" target="_blank" >https://bioone.org/journals/polish-journal-of-ecology/volume-69/issue-3-4/15052249PJE2021.69.3.002/The-Impact-of-a-Forest-Fire-Event-on-Moth-Assemblages/10.3161/15052249PJE2021.69.3.002.full</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3161/15052249PJE2021.69.3.002" target="_blank" >10.3161/15052249PJE2021.69.3.002</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The impact of a forest fire event on moth assemblages in Western Bohemia, Czech Republic

Original language description

Fire has major impact on species diversity in natural ecosystems around the world. The consequences of fires for invertebrates can be immediate, and recovery of species assemblages may be a long-term process. We recorded moth communities from May to November 2019 in a pine forest in Western Bohemia, Czech Republic, where a local fire occurred in April of that year. We used UV light traps at one burned site and two neighboring unburned sites with a similar character as the burned site before the fire event. We analyzed moth assemblages using several species diversity indices - index of dominance, Shannon-Wiener index and Shannon- Wiener evenness, Simpson index, and Chao1 non-parametric estimation. We detected 67 species at the burned site, and 97 and 106 at the unburned sites. The three most frequently trapped species at all sites were Macaria liturata, Buphalus piniaria and Thera obeliscata, representing common forest geometrid moths. We observed a decline in species number and abundance at the burned site compared to the unburned sites, probably due to the direct mortality of larvae. On the contrary, the burned site was more diverse according to the diversity indices. The fire disrupted the original character of the coniferous forest, which was proved by a decline of species feeding on conifers and Vaccinium spp. The burned site attracted species associated with dry habitats such as Eublemma purpurina, Charissa obscurata and Scopula rubiginata. Even though wildfires are viewed negatively in general, they might temporarily enhance diversity in a homogeneous landscape.

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

2021

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Polish Journal of Ecology

ISSN

1505-2249

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

69

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3-4

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

156-171

UT code for WoS article

000806055300002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85131268619