MICHALCOVÁ, Dana, Milan CHYTRÝ, Vilém PECHANEC, Ondřej HÁJEK, Jan Willem JONGEPIER, Jiří DANIHELKA, Vít GRULICH, Kateřina ŠUMBEROVÁ, Zdenka PREISLEROVÁ, Anne GHISLA, Giovanni BACARO and David ZELENÝ. High plant diversity of grasslands in a landscape context: A comparison of contrasting regions in Central Europe. Folia Geobotanica. Springer, 2014, vol. 49, No 2, p. 117-135. ISSN 1211-9520. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12224-013-9173-1.
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Original name High plant diversity of grasslands in a landscape context: A comparison of contrasting regions in Central Europe
Authors MICHALCOVÁ, Dana (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Milan CHYTRÝ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Vilém PECHANEC (203 Czech Republic), Ondřej HÁJEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jan Willem JONGEPIER (203 Czech Republic), Jiří DANIHELKA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Vít GRULICH (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Kateřina ŠUMBEROVÁ (203 Czech Republic), Zdenka PREISLEROVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Anne GHISLA (380 Italy), Giovanni BACARO (380 Italy) and David ZELENÝ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
Edition Folia Geobotanica, Springer, 2014, 1211-9520.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10600 1.6 Biological sciences
Country of publisher Netherlands
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 1.778
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/14:00075833
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12224-013-9173-1
UT WoS 000338233200001
Keywords in English Alpha diversity;Beta diversity;Czech Republic;Species pool;Species richness;White Carpathians
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Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
Some regions and habitats harbour high numbers of plant species at a fine scale. A remarkable example is the grasslands of the White Carpathian Mountains (Czech Republic), which holds world records in local species richness; however, the causes are still poorly understood. To explore the landscape context of this phenomenon and its relationships to diversity patterns at larger scales, we compared diversity patterns in grasslands and other vegetation types in the White Carpathians with those in nearby regions lacking extremely species-rich grasslands, using data from vegetation plots and flora grid mapping of entire landscapes. Although small-scale species richness of grasslands and ruderal/weed vegetation of the White Carpathians was higher than in the nearby regions, the number of grassland and ruderal/weed species in the regional flora of the White Carpathians was not. Diversity of forests was not higher in this region at any scale. Thus the remarkably high local species richness of the White Carpathian grasslands does not result from a larger grassland species pool in the region, but from the fine-scale co-occurrence of many grassland species in this landscape, which results in the formation of grassland communities that are locally rich but with similar species composition when comparing different sites (i.e. high alpha but low beta diversity). This pattern can be partly attributed to the large total area of these grasslands, which reduces random extinctions of rare species, low geological diversity, which enables many species to occur at many sites across the landscape, and high land-cover diversity, which supports mixing of species from different vegetation types.
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