Spatial variations in soil properties across ecotones: a short review

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.2478/bgeo-2018-0006" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.2478/bgeo-2018-0006</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/bgeo-2018-0006" target="_blank" >10.2478/bgeo-2018-0006</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Spatial variations in soil properties across ecotones: a short review

Original language description

Ecotones are considered as unique environments. The concepts of edge effect and ecotone species (flora and fauna) are widely used. Considering the fact that the majority of the species found in ecotones are usually at their physiologically determined limits of distribution, how they react to global climate changes becomes crucial. Ecotones are reputed to be more biologically diverse than areas close to them, and therefore possesses a high conservation value, yet little is known on how soil properties vary across ecotones. In this paper, we firstly highlighted the roles ecotones play in assessing the effect on global climate change, the mediatory role they play in the movement of material (water and nutrients) into and out of the region. Secondly, we reviewed studies on how soil properties change across ecotones and it is worthwhile to note that soil properties tend to differ across various ecotones (e.g. increasing pH and decreasing P &amp; N across forest-glade ecotones, decreasing pH across ancient-recent forest ecotones) in a manner that defines the character of the ecotones existing.

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

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Bulletin of Geography. Physical Geography Series

ISSN

2080-7686

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

Neuveden

Issue of the periodical within the volume

14

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

71-77

UT code for WoS article

000434647400006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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