Small-scale drivers on plant and ant diversity in a grassland habitat through a multifaceted approach

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12517" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12517</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12517" target="_blank" >10.7717/peerj.12517</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Small-scale drivers on plant and ant diversity in a grassland habitat through a multifaceted approach

Original language description

Semi-natural grasslands are characterized by high biodiversity and require multifaceted approaches to monitor their biodiversity. Moreover, grasslands comprise a multitude of microhabitats, making the scale of investigation of fundamental importance. Despite their wide distribution, grasslands are highly threatened and are considered of high conservation priority by Directive no. 92/43/ EEC. Here, we investigate the effects of small-scale ecological differences between two ecosites present within the EU habitat of Community Interest of semi-natural dry grasslands on calcareous substrates (6210 according to Dir. 92/43/EEC) occurring on a Mediterranean mountain. We measured taxonomic and functional diversity of plant and ant communities, evaluating the differences among the two ecosites, how these differences are influenced by the environment and whether vegetation affects composition of the ant community. Our results show that taxonomic and functional diversity of plant and ant communities are influenced by the environment. While vegetation has no effect on ant communities, we found plant and ant community composition differed across the two ecosites, filtering ant and plant species according to their functional traits, even at a small spatial scale. Our findings imply that small-scale monitoring is needed to effectively conserve priority habitats, especially for those that comprise multiple microhabitats.

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

PeerJ

ISSN

2167-8359

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

9

Issue of the periodical within the volume

neuveden

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000736971500005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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