Multifaceted diversity changes reveal community assembly mechanisms during early stages of post-logging forest succession

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Alternative codes found

RIV/67985939:_____/23:00575434 RIV/60076658:12310/23:43906466

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-023-01306-4" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-023-01306-4</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11258-023-01306-4" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11258-023-01306-4</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Multifaceted diversity changes reveal community assembly mechanisms during early stages of post-logging forest succession

Original language description

Plant succession is a fundamental process of vegetation recovery on disturbed sites. Elucidating its mechanisms remains a challenge as succession is influenced by stochastic and deterministic processes related to abiotic and biotic filters. Here, we use a multifaceted diversity approach to reveal mechanisms of successional changes in European oak-hornbeam forests during the first 10 years after selective logging. As the mechanisms controlling succession may depend upon initial abiotic conditions and colonization potential of the surrounding vegetation, we compare changes in taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity between clearings connected with open habitats and those isolated inside forests. Despite fewer dispersal barriers and higher biomass production in connected clearings, similar mechanisms initially governed succession in post-logging sites. Both clearings had low taxonomic and functional diversity in the first year of succession, as evidenced by significant trait convergence, caused by the legacy of interactions between overstory and understory vegetation in pre-disturbance closed-canopy forests. Colonization by short-lived and light-demanding species in the second and third years after logging has markedly increased the overall taxonomic and functional diversity, as evidenced by significant trait divergence. Connected clearings had higher functional but lower taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity than isolated clearings from the fourth to ten years of succession, probably due to intense competition in more productive habitats. All diversity facets markedly decreased in the last years due to increasing asymmetric competition from regenerating trees. The successional processes were largely deterministic, driven by species' life-history strategies and biotic interactions (competition) rather than abiotic constraints and stochastic events.

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

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Plant Ecology

ISSN

1385-0237

e-ISSN

1573-5052

Volume of the periodical

224

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

335-347

UT code for WoS article

000939790600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85148943223