Emerging infectious disease triggered a trophic cascade and enhanced recruitment of a masting tree

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Result on the web
<a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2021.2636" target="_blank" >https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2021.2636</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.2636" target="_blank" >10.1098/rspb.2021.2636</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Emerging infectious disease triggered a trophic cascade and enhanced recruitment of a masting tree
Original language description
There are several mechanisms that allow plants to temporarily escape from top-down control. One of them is trophic cascades triggered by top predators or pathogens. Another is satiation of consumers by mast seeding. These two mechanisms have traditionally been studied in separation. However, their combined action may have a greater effect on plant release than either process alone. In 2015, an outbreak of a disease (African swine fever, ASF) caused a crash in wild boar (Sus scrofa) abundance in Bialowieza Primeval Forest. Wild boar are important consumers of acorns and are difficult to satiate relative to less mobile granivores. We hypothesized that the joint action of the ASF outbreak and masting would enhance regeneration of oaks (Quercus robur). Data from ungulate exclosures demonstrated that ASF led to reduction in acorn predation. Tree seedling data indicated that oak recruitment increased twofold relative to pre-epidemic period. Our results showed that perturbations caused by wildlife disease t
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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