Biodiversity hanging by a thread: the importance of fungal litter-trapping systems in tropical rainforests

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2011.1115" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2011.1115</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2011.1115" target="_blank" >10.1098/rsbl.2011.1115</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Biodiversity hanging by a thread: the importance of fungal litter-trapping systems in tropical rainforests

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The exceptionally high species richness of arthropods in tropical rainforests hinges on the complexity of the forest itself: that is, on features such as the high plant diversity, the layered nature of the canopy and the abundance and the diversity of epiphytes and litter. We here report on one important, but almost completely neglected, piece of this complex jigsaw-the intricate network of rhizomorph-forming fungi that ramify through the vegetation of the lower canopy and intercept falling leaf litter.We show that this litter-trapping network is abundant and intercepts substantial amounts of litter (257.3 kg ha(-1)): this exceeds the amount of material recorded in any other rainforest litter-trapping system. Experimental removal of this fungal network resulted in a dramatic reduction in both the abundance (decreased by 70.2 +/- 4.1%) and morphospecies richness (decreased by 57.4 +/- 5.1%) of arthropods. Since the lower canopy levels can contain the highest densities of arthropods, th

Název v anglickém jazyce

Biodiversity hanging by a thread: the importance of fungal litter-trapping systems in tropical rainforests

Popis výsledku anglicky

The exceptionally high species richness of arthropods in tropical rainforests hinges on the complexity of the forest itself: that is, on features such as the high plant diversity, the layered nature of the canopy and the abundance and the diversity of epiphytes and litter. We here report on one important, but almost completely neglected, piece of this complex jigsaw-the intricate network of rhizomorph-forming fungi that ramify through the vegetation of the lower canopy and intercept falling leaf litter.We show that this litter-trapping network is abundant and intercepts substantial amounts of litter (257.3 kg ha(-1)): this exceeds the amount of material recorded in any other rainforest litter-trapping system. Experimental removal of this fungal network resulted in a dramatic reduction in both the abundance (decreased by 70.2 +/- 4.1%) and morphospecies richness (decreased by 57.4 +/- 5.1%) of arthropods. Since the lower canopy levels can contain the highest densities of arthropods, th

Druh

J_x - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)

CEP obor

EG - Zoologie

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2012

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

BIOLOGY LETTERS

ISSN

1744-9561

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

8

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

4

Strana od-do

397-400

Kód UT WoS článku

000303933300023

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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