Interaction between light availability and grazing enhances species richness and turnover of vascular plants in shrubby pastures in Romania

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43410%2F20%3A43917725" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43410/20:43917725 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/20:10424875 RIV/00027073:_____/20:N0000081

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s42974-020-00007-6" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s42974-020-00007-6</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42974-020-00007-6" target="_blank" >10.1007/s42974-020-00007-6</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Interaction between light availability and grazing enhances species richness and turnover of vascular plants in shrubby pastures in Romania

Original language description

Shrubs in pastures are expected to adversely affect plant species diversity and community composition at various spatial scales. We recorded vegetation composition as well as light conditions and other environmental variables in 105 1 m(2) plots nested in 35 sampling sites in shrubby pastures in Romanian Banat. We used generalized linear models, generalized linear mixed-effects models, and linear regression to find determinants of species turnover and richness at patch and community level. We expected shrubs to negatively influence species richness on the patch level but to introduce spatial heterogeneity to the light availability resulting in a unimodal relationship of light availability with species richness on the community level. Species turnover was significantly influenced by light conditions, grazing variability, and distance between the plots. We found a unimodal relationship between light availability and species richness consistently across the two spatial scales in grazed sites. However, the same relationship changed its shape from linear to unimodal in non-grazed sites. Shrubs in pastures may not be considered as a threat to plant species diversity. Instead, they contribute significantly to plant species diversity and vegetation heterogeneity.

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

10619 - Biodiversity conservation

Project

<a href="/en/project/EE2.3.20.0004" target="_blank" >EE2.3.20.0004: Creation and development of multidisciplinary team on the basis of landscape ecology</a><br>

Continuities

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

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Community Ecology

ISSN

1585-8553

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

21

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

HU - HUNGARY

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

67-77

UT code for WoS article

000523049900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85084697492