Refugial ecosystems in central Asia as indicators of biodiversity change during the Pleistocene–Holocene transition

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14310/17:00095230

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.12.033" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.12.033</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.12.033" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.12.033</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Refugial ecosystems in central Asia as indicators of biodiversity change during the Pleistocene–Holocene transition

Original language description

Site-scale species richness (alpha diversity) patterns are well described for many present-day ecosystems, but they are difficult to reconstruct from the fossil record. Pesent-day central Asian ecosystems exhibit climatic features and biota similar to those of the full-glacial periods in Europe. We measured alpha diversity of vascular plants, bryophytes, macrolichens and landsnails, as well as environmental variables, in 100-m2 lots located in forests and open habitats in the Russian Altai Mountains and their northern foothills. Climate was identified as the strongest predictor of alpha diversity across all taxa, with temperature being positively correlated to number of species of vascular plants and land snails and negatively correlated to that of bryophytes and macrolichens. Factors important for only some taxa included precipitation, soil pH, percentage cover of tree layer and proportion of grassland areas in the landscape around plots. These results, combined with the high degree of similarity between the current Altai biota and dry-cold Pleistocene ecosystems of Europe and northern Asia, suggest that vascular plant and land snail alpha diversity was low during cold phases of the Pleistocene with a general increase following the Holocene climatic amelioration. The opposite trend probably existed for terricolous bryophytes and macrolichens.

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/GAP504%2F11%2F0454" target="_blank" >GAP504/11/0454: Biodiversity change during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition: modern analogues in relict ecosystems of Siberia</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Ecological Indicators

ISSN

1470-160X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

76

Issue of the periodical within the volume

Jun 17

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

357-367

UT code for WoS article

000406435800037

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85014445996