Shifts in the altitudinal distribution of alien and native synanthropic plants along roadsides over a 40-year period

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00027073:_____/24:N0000010

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/11263504.2024.2392526" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1080/11263504.2024.2392526</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/11263504.2024.2392526" target="_blank" >10.1080/11263504.2024.2392526</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Shifts in the altitudinal distribution of alien and native synanthropic plants along roadsides over a 40-year period

Original language description

Disturbed areas alongside roads shape unique vegetation communities dominated by synanthropic native and alien plant species, facilitated by roads serving as corridors for dispersal, penetration, and integration of synanthropic plants into new areas. We collected presence/absence data for individual species along roads in the Orlické Mountains, Czech Republic, in three time periods during 1970–2010. The distribution of species was mapped using a 1-square-kilometer grid. Analyzing 107 plant species (44 native, 63 alien), we found archaeophyte species favor lower elevations (foothills), while neophytes thrive at higher elevations. Over 40years, neophyte frequency significantly rose at lower elevations, contrasting the decline at higher elevations, with no marked change in archaeophyte frequency. Native species decline notably at 400–500m elevations. Some thermophilous native synanthropic species and alien archaeophytes spread from foothills to higher elevations, while some psychrophilic higher-elevation species shift upwards, diminishing at lower elevations. We emphasize human disturbance and global warming as pivotal factors influencing the altitudinal distribution shift in both native and alien plant species. Our results showed that some plants with higher temperature requirements from lower elevations shifted their distribution to higher elevations. Additionally, some native cold-loving plants from higher elevations exhibited a shift in their distribution optimum to higher altitudes and decreased in frequency at lower elevations. Alien neophytes in some cases spread from higher to lower altitudes. In general, it is not crucial whether a plant is native or alien, but rather the conditions that currently support its spread are significant. For this reason, marked differences were observed in the dispersal dynamics of individual species, including both native and alien plant species. The results of our study also highlighted the significance of human influences on plant dispersal in a warming climate.

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

2024

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Plant Biosystems

ISSN

1126-3504

e-ISSN

1724-5575

Volume of the periodical

158

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

1076-1084

UT code for WoS article

001300323400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85202781198