Dynamics of a mountain grassland: Environment predicts long-term trends, while species' traits predict short-term fluctuations
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985939%3A_____%2F22%3A00558800" target="_blank" >RIV/67985939:_____/22:00558800 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/22:10452965
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13138" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13138</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13138" target="_blank" >10.1111/jvs.13138</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Dynamics of a mountain grassland: Environment predicts long-term trends, while species' traits predict short-term fluctuations
Original language description
Aims Dynamics of plant communities are an outcome of species' responses to the external environment influenced by species' life history, growth patterns and their mutual interactions. We aimed to disentangle the long-term directional trends, likely associated with decadal change in environmental conditions, from short-term species fluctuations. Location Krkonose Mountains, North Bohemia, Czech Republic. Method To disentangle these processes, we used data from four plots in a temperate mountain grassland recorded yearly from 1985 to 2019. Results We identified distinct types of temporal dynamics of individual species (using Fourier analysis) as well as directional shifts in abundance of individual species. Species fluctuations were best predicted by species' traits (namely taller species and those with a larger bud bank being less likely to fluctuate), likely due to demographic processes specific for individual species within the community. In contrast, directional trends were better predicted by species' environmental preferences expressed by Ellenberg indicator values. We found consistent shifts in vegetation composition towards that with higher Ellenberg indicator values for soil reaction and light and lower indicator value for moisture, which can be explained both by the global change and local factors. Conclusion Our results thus show that short-term dynamics of individual species is determined by their traits, while long-term trends of a grassland community are determined by the environmental change.
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/GA20-02901S" target="_blank" >GA20-02901S: Community diversity as a response and as a driver: Exploiting long-term experiments to address functional roles of diversity</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Vegetation Science
ISSN
1100-9233
e-ISSN
1654-1103
Volume of the periodical
33
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
e13138
UT code for WoS article
000815337600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85133018502