Lichens in old‑growth and managed mountain spruce forests in the Czech Republic: assessment of biodiversity, functional traits and bioindicators

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Alternative codes found

RIV/67985939:_____/19:00509542 RIV/86652079:_____/19:00509542 RIV/60460709:41320/19:80358 RIV/60076658:12310/19:43899508 RIV/00216208:11310/19:10399801

Result on the web

<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0301383" target="_blank" >http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0301383</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-019-01834-4" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10531-019-01834-4</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Lichens in old‑growth and managed mountain spruce forests in the Czech Republic: assessment of biodiversity, functional traits and bioindicators

Original language description

Natural spruce forests are restricted to the highest mountain ranges in the Czech Republic. Spruce is also the commonest tree species in managed forests. Owing to a massive decline of spruce forests in Central Europe, caused by recent climatic fluctuations and disturbances, the lichen diversity and species composition was compared between ten representative natural mountain old-growth forests in the Czech Republic and their counterparts in mature managed forests. The old-growth forests are characterized by a higher species richness, abundance, number of Red-listed species, functional, taxonomic and phylogenetic diversities. Plots with the highest species richness are situated in the Šumava Mountains, an area with a relatively low sulphur deposition in the past. Bioindication analysis searching for lichen indicators supported several species (e.g. Xylographa vitiligo, Chaenotheca sphaerocephala) and genera (e.g. Calicium, Xylographa) with a strong preference for oldgrowth forests. Analysis of lichen functional traits revealed a higher abundance of species with a vegetative reproduction in managed forests that may be explained by a higher efficiency in colonization by young successional stages. Lichens with stalked apothecia, pigmented ascospores and large ascospores are more frequent in old-growth forests. Our results are briefly discussed in terms of nature conservation, focusing on national refugees of old-growth forest species, biodiversity hot-spots, practical use of indicator species and representative measures for an evaluation of forest quality.

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

10606 - Microbiology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Biodiversity and Conservation

ISSN

0960-3115

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

28

Issue of the periodical within the volume

13

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

32

Pages from-to

3497-3528

UT code for WoS article

000488929900007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85074205664