Ecological mechanisms of canopy thinning: Insights into biodiversity recovery in neglected coppice

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/62156489:43210/25:43926578 RIV/62156489:43410/25:43926578 RIV/61989592:15310/25:73633146

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111003" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111003</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111003" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111003</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Ecological mechanisms of canopy thinning: Insights into biodiversity recovery in neglected coppice

Original language description

Abandonment of traditional management is among the major causes of the loss of temperate forest biodiversity. While numerous studies highlight the positive impact of restoring traditional forest management on biodiversity, there is a notable gap in research focusing on the ecological mechanisms underlying the benefits to taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity. In this study, we applied canopy thinning of various intensity in an abandoned coppice to examine the response of vascular plant, ant, carabid and spider communities to the thinning intensity. Our results showed that the increase of functional diversity following canopy thinning is driven by the increased presence, rather than abundance, of species exhibiting unique combinations of ecological traits. Plant and invertebrate communities were not clustered or overdispersed within the phylogenetic or functional space delimited by the species pool, indicating the dominant effect of stochastic processes on community assembly. Our multispecies study demonstrates for the first time that ecological mechanism maintaining biodiversity following forest thinning are mainly governed by stochastic processes. Notably, our research reveals that the increase in species richness after tree thinning is due to the presence of species with unique ecological trait combinations. Furthermore, we identified distinct mechanisms driving community changes: carabid beetles and ants mainly experience shifts in species composition, while plants and spiders are more affected by species loss.

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

10619 - Biodiversity conservation

Project

<a href="/en/project/TL02000314" target="_blank" >TL02000314: Restoration of coppicing management: a way to diversification of the societal, economic and ecological use of the forest potential in Central Europe</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Biological Conservation

ISSN

0006-3207

e-ISSN

1873-2917

Volume of the periodical

303

Issue of the periodical within the volume

March

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

111003

UT code for WoS article

001424926500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85217053054