Soil toxicity and species dominance rather than nutrient availability drive plant species richness in swamp forests of Central Europe

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.infozdroje.czu.cz/doi/epdf/10.1111/jbi.14771" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.infozdroje.czu.cz/doi/epdf/10.1111/jbi.14771</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14771" target="_blank" >10.1111/jbi.14771</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Soil toxicity and species dominance rather than nutrient availability drive plant species richness in swamp forests of Central Europe

Original language description

Aim A resource based conceptual model of plant diversity (RBCM) assumes direct relationships between resource supply and the diversity of a local plant assembly. However, the RBCM largely ignores variation in soil toxicity imposed by climatic effects. Both soil limiting resources and soil toxicity vary along climatic gradients but their net and interactive effects on plant species diversity remain unknown. We asked how climatic gradients shape resource availability, soil toxicity and dominance of herb-layer graminoids, and how these predictors control local species diversity of herbs and bryophytes. Location Swamp forests, Central Europe.TaxonVascular plants, bryophytes. Methods Alpha taxonomic diversity of vascular plants and bryophytes was counted for 101 vegetation plots sampled in temperate swamp forests distributed along an 800-km geographical gradient across the Continental, Alpine and Pannonian biogeographical regions. Path analysis (structural equation modelling) was used to quantify the direct and indirect effects of climatic variable (potential evapotranspiration; PET), limiting resources (soil N/P, Ca, C/N, proxies for light and water availability) and soil toxicity (Mn) on graminoid dominance and community diversity.ResultsPET negatively influenced species richness of both groups analysed either directly or indirectly through its positive effect on the cover of graminoid species. Alpha diversity of herbs was additionally reduced by soil toxicity (Mn). Limiting resources correlated either with species dominance (canopy shading, soil Ca) or with PET (soil N/P ratio), but they did not control species richness pattern. Main Conclusions Climate, soil toxicity and species dominance determined alpha diversity instead of the expected importance of soil limiting resources. These results are key to advancing the theoretical framework of the RBCM. Increased soil toxicity (Mn) in well-watered regions favours the dominance of plant competitors at the expense of less tolerant species. This implies a potential threat to wetland diversity under ongoing climate change.

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

10611 - Plant sciences, botany

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA23-07716S" target="_blank" >GA23-07716S: Linking performance trade-off with modern coexistence theory and functional trait approach</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Journal of Biogeography

ISSN

0305-0270

e-ISSN

0305-0270

Volume of the periodical

51

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

649-658

UT code for WoS article

001125710600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85179703033