Habitat extremity and conservation management stabilise endangered calcareous fens in a changing world
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985939%3A_____%2F20%3A00533891" target="_blank" >RIV/67985939:_____/20:00533891 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14310/20:00114140
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134693" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134693</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134693" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134693</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Habitat extremity and conservation management stabilise endangered calcareous fens in a changing world
Original language description
Calcareous fens represent an endangered type of peatlands, acting as refugia for stress-tolerant species in the currently changing landscapes. The resurveys across many regions have reported their recent disappearance or deterioration despite both the extreme habitat conditions (carbonate richness, presence of calcareous tufa, nutrient limitation, high water level) and conservation management. To test the stability of their biotic communities in different environmental and management configurations, we repeatedly sampled molluscs (terrestrial and aquatic), vascular plants, and bryophytes at 30 calcareous fens in the Inner Western Carpathians (Slovakia, Poland) after 13–17 years of warm summers and land-use changes. We found a small yet statistically significant effect of sampling period (old versus new survey) on the species composition of all three groups of organisms when the effect of various positions of sites along ecological gradients was controlled for. The compositional changes, interpreted with the help of Ellenberg Indicator Values, suggest an incipient succession towards grasslands and shrublands, driven by decreasing soil moisture and increasing nutrient availability. Although the number of habitat specialists did not change, the number of matrix-derived vascular plant and bryophyte species significantly increased, with six ubiquitous species of productive habitats being significantly more represented currently, while the richness of aquatic molluscs significantly decreased. Fens in which potentially strongly competitive plant species were less stressed because of less intense management and lower habitat extremity were more prone to such succession.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - 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
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-01775S" target="_blank" >GA19-01775S: Current and future diversity of European fens in a changing world</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Science of the Total Environment
ISSN
0048-9697
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
719
Issue of the periodical within the volume
JUN 1
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
1-13
UT code for WoS article
000521936300065
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85076564029