The long history of rich fens supports persistence of plant and snail habitat specialists

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14310/22:00119718 RIV/61988987:17310/21:A2202C4J RIV/60076658:12310/22:43906057 RIV/62156489:43210/22:43920572 RIV/61989592:15310/22:73609813

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-021-02318-0" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-021-02318-0</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-021-02318-0" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10531-021-02318-0</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The long history of rich fens supports persistence of plant and snail habitat specialists

Original language description

Increasing evidence for the effects of Holocene history on modern biotic communities suggests that current explanations of community patterns and conservation strategies require revisiting. Here we focused on Central European rich fens that are at high risk among mire habitats because of their relatively low environmental stability, and hence sensitivity to successional shifts. At each of 57 study sites, inventory of specialist species of bryophytes, vascular plants and land snails, measurements of local environmental conditions, area, and radiocarbon dating were conducted. We used Moran’s spatial autocorrelation, multiple linear regression models, MDS, db-RDA, and null models to identify drivers of species richness and occurrence. We tested the importance of site age and historical metacommunity dynamics expressed by regional age of the habitat for the diversity of three taxonomic groups of fen organisms differing in dispersal and life history strategies. The richness of specialist species was affected by local environmental conditions and area in allthree groups, but the effect of regional age was significant and positive for vascular plants and snails, once the effect of fen area was set as a covariable. We identified 11 species significantly associated with ancient fens independently of site area and pH effects, this group includes species currently considered to be umbrella species in European habitat conservation (the moss Hamatocaulis vernicosus and the snail Vertigo geyeri). The effect of fen age per se on the communities of specialists calls for the incorporation of age into conservation schemes.

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

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Biodiversity and Conservation

ISSN

0960-3115

e-ISSN

1572-9710

Volume of the periodical

31

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

39-57

UT code for WoS article

000718713200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85119061702