Fear of the dark: decline in plant diversity and invasion of alien species due to increased tree canopy density and eutrophication in lowland woodlands
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41330%2F18%3A76678" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41330/18:76678 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/67985939:_____/18:00493129
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11258-018-0831-5" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11258-018-0831-5</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11258-018-0831-5" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11258-018-0831-5</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Fear of the dark: decline in plant diversity and invasion of alien species due to increased tree canopy density and eutrophication in lowland woodlands
Original language description
The abandonment of traditional forest management and the conversion of lowland woodlands from coppices to high forests may lead to a reduction in plant diversity. We studied long term changes in semi natural lowland woodland vegetation in the Czech Republic (Central Europe) by resampling 29 vegetation plots (releves) first sampled in the 1950s. The results indicated a shift to shady plant communities (i.e. loss of heliophilous species and expansion of shade-tolerant species), caused by an increase in the tree and shrub layer canopy due to the expansion of deciduous tree species. At the same time, species richness (alpha diversity) had declined significantly, though we noted no signs of homogenisation in the vegetation cover. Species typical of nutrientrich habitats and alien or invasive species had expanded. We confirmed the shift in vegetation composition, which was probably caused by changes in lowland woodland forest management (decline in coppicing), eutrophication (deposition
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
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
10611 - Plant sciences, botany
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Plant Ecology
ISSN
1385-0237
e-ISSN
1385-0237
Volume of the periodical
219
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
749-758
UT code for WoS article
000431968900011
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85045900533