Soil moisture and a legacy of prehistoric human activities have contributed to the extraordinary plant species diversity of grasslands in the White Carpathians
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985939%3A_____%2F20%3A00533892" target="_blank" >RIV/67985939:_____/20:00533892 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14310/20:00114366
Result on the web
<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0312483" target="_blank" >http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0312483</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.23855/preslia.2020.035" target="_blank" >10.23855/preslia.2020.035</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Soil moisture and a legacy of prehistoric human activities have contributed to the extraordinary plant species diversity of grasslands in the White Carpathians
Original language description
The factors that determine the unique species richness and composition of some temperate grasslandsare poorly known. Uniqueness of the extraordinarily species-rich grasslands in the WhiteCarpathian mountain range (Czech Republic, Slovakia), with many disjunct occurrences of species,have been previously attributed to intermittently wet deep soils, which facilitate the co-occurrenceof steppe and wet-grassland species, and Holocene continuity of open land, resulted in large speciespools. Based on a detailed investigation of 23 well-preserved regularly mown grasslands differingin their vegetation composition and species richness, we tested the relative importance of the hypotheticaldeterminants of compositional variability within semi-dry grasslands. For the first time weincluded measurements of seasonal moisture at different soil depths and landscape differences inthe intensity of the effect of prehistoric humans. The species richness was best explained bymean soil moisture, which increased towards the most species-rich grasslands, whereas the distancefrom prehistoric settlements had no effect. Basicity, moisture and the distance from prehistoric settlementshad significant conditional effects on species composition. We conclude that coexistence of species from different habitats is dependent on regular management and high soil moisture throughout the growing season. Due to intermediate moisture conditions that are tolerated by multiple ecological groups of species, many species may locally coexist and form a species-rich grassland community of unique species composition. In addition, prehistoric human activities contributed to landscape openness and helped maintain a forest-steppe speciespool during the Holocene forest optimum.
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
10611 - Plant sciences, botany
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GX19-28491X" target="_blank" >GX19-28491X: Centre for European Vegetation Syntheses (CEVS)</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
Preslia
ISSN
0032-7786
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
92
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
22
Pages from-to
35-56
UT code for WoS article
000519983500002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85085116679