Associations between Epiphytic Orchids and Their Hosts and Future Perspectives of These in the Context of Global Warming

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F86652079%3A_____%2F24%3A00586382" target="_blank" >RIV/86652079:_____/24:00586382 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/67985939:_____/24:00586073 RIV/00216208:11310/24:10481077

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/16/4/252" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/16/4/252</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d16040252" target="_blank" >10.3390/d16040252</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Associations between Epiphytic Orchids and Their Hosts and Future Perspectives of These in the Context of Global Warming

Original language description

Epiphytic species are ecologically important and a significant component of biodiversity. To ensure their efficient conservation, we need to understand their ecology and host plant associations. It is also important to investigate how the predicted temperature change will affect their future distribution. Here, we use data collected in Nepal to investigate how epiphytic orchids are associated with host species, their distribution patterns, and how they may be threatened by the predicted increase in temperature towards the end of the 21st century. We used the phi coefficient (Phi) of association to calculate the associations of epiphytic orchid species with plants and rarefaction to describe the diversity of orchids associated with a particular host species. We used interpolation to estimate the distribution of epiphytic orchids and their host species along altitudinal gradients. The phi (Phi) coefficient of association revealed that 30 species of host plants showed more association with different orchid species than expected. The number of epiphytic orchids increased with the number of host individuals. We predict that an increase in temperature by similar to 3 degrees C, which is a more moderate value of temperature increase by the end of the 21st century, will affect at least 52 narrow-ranged species of orchids and 58 narrow-ranged species of host plants. Therefore, we should make efforts to prevent many plant species from becoming extinct, as an increase in temperature is likely to affect their existence.

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

10611 - Plant sciences, botany

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

Diversity

ISSN

1424-2818

e-ISSN

1424-2818

Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

252

UT code for WoS article

001211335300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85191585000