Floodplain of the Orlice River (Eastern Bohemia, Czech Republic): The natural centre of biodiversity

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62690094%3A18470%2F15%3A50013805" target="_blank" >RIV/62690094:18470/15:50013805 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jlecol-2015-0015" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jlecol-2015-0015</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jlecol-2015-0015" target="_blank" >10.1515/jlecol-2015-0015</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Floodplain of the Orlice River (Eastern Bohemia, Czech Republic): The natural centre of biodiversity

Original language description

The article presents the main results of a field research carried out between 2012 and 2014. It is a comparison case study of vegetation diversity of pools and dead-end branches of the Orlice River in Eastern Bohemia, Czech Republic. The actual state of wetland vegetation is being compared to data from literature that is several decades old. Botanical survey was conducted in the study area located between the town of Hradec Králové and parishes of Malšovice, Malšova Lhota a Svinary. The research confirmed that dead-end river branches and oxbow lakes form potential refugia of biodiversity of vascular plants in the landscape context of the river area despite the fact that the River Orlice was fully regulated in the urban area of Hradec Králové and the surrounding parishes in the past. Nevertheless, the river area is of a natural character there and belongs to the Nature Park of Orlice since 1996. The local ecosystems are also a part of the important locality of the River Orlice and Elbe. The total of 449 taxons of vascular plants (on the level of species and sub-species) and species rich associations of aquatic and wetland plants were recorded in the study area. Conservation of the water regime in the fluvial landscape and suitable regulation interventions against some spreading invasive species are crucial for the continuing existence of the precious species composition. For this reason the article also includes some management steps.

Czech name

—

Czech description

—

Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

—

OECD FORD branch

10619 - Biodiversity conservation

Project

—

Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Journal of landscape ecology

ISSN

1803-2427

e-ISSN

—

Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

68-90

UT code for WoS article

—

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84957700986