Light availability and land‐use history drive biodiversity and functional changes in forest herb layer communities

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41320/20:84489 RIV/61989592:15310/20:73604651

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13339" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13339</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13339" target="_blank" >10.1111/1365-2745.13339</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Light availability and land‐use history drive biodiversity and functional changes in forest herb layer communities

Original language description

A central challenge of today's ecological research is predicting how ecosystems will develop under future global change. We tested for interactions between land-use history, distinguishing ancient and recent (i.e. post-agricultural) forests and four drivers: temperature, nitrogen deposition, and aridity at the regional scale and light dynamics at the plot-scale. Land-use history significantly modulated global change effects on the functional signature of the herb layer (i.e. cover, SLA and plant height). Light availability was the main environmental driver of change interacting with land-use history. We found greater herb cover and plant height decreases and SLA increases with decreasing light availability in ancient than in recent forests. Furthermore, we found greater decreases in herb cover with increased nitrogen deposition in ancient forests, whereas warming had the strongest decreasing effect on the herb cover in recent forests. Interactive effects between land-use history and global change on biodiversity were not found, but species evenness increased more in ancient than in recent forests. Our results demonstrate that land-use history should not be overlooked when predicting forest herb layer responses to global change. Moreover, we found that herb layer composition in semi-natural deciduous forests is mainly controlled by local canopy characteristics, regulating light levels at the forest floor, and much less by environmental changes at the regional scale (here warming, nitrogen deposition and aridity). The observed disconnect between biodiversity and functional herb layer responses to environmental changes demonstrates the importance of assessing both types of responses to increase our understanding of the possible impact of global change on the herb layer.

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

10618 - Ecology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-09283S" target="_blank" >GA17-09283S: Humans as nature: anthropogenic legacy in temperate forest ecosystems</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Journal of Ecology

ISSN

0022-0477

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

108

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

1411-1425

UT code for WoS article

000508970400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85078658978