Conservation implications of cascading effects among groups of organisms: The alien tree Robinia pseudacacia in the Czech Republic as a case study

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41330%2F16%3A70415" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41330/16:70415 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/16:10324344
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2016.04.003" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2016.04.003</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2016.04.003" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.biocon.2016.04.003</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Conservation implications of cascading effects among groups of organisms: The alien tree Robinia pseudacacia in the Czech Republic as a case study
Original language description
Invasions of non-native plants often result in impoverished local communities; however, their cascading effects along food chain remain unknown. Here we investigated how the alteration of food resources and habitat structure due to the invasion of an alien tree affects the species richness of habitat specialist and generalist birds. During 2014, we sampled forest stands of the invasive Robinia pseudacacia and control stands of native trees in the Czech Republic (central Europe). Specifically, we performed intensive breeding bird counts and assessed moth diversity as a key food resource for breeding birds and, described the habitat structure of sampled stands. Compared to native tree stands, stands of R. pseudacacia had a lower species richness of habitat specialist birds, a higher species richness of habitat generalist birds, a lower diversity of moths, a less continuous canopy and a more developed shrub layer. Then we related bird species richness to moth diversity and descriptors of habita
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
EH - Ecology - communities
OECD FORD branch
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GA14-21715S" target="_blank" >GA14-21715S: Mechanisms of invasive alien plants' impact on bird communities: lessons from selected tree species introduced into the Czech Republic</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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