CHUDOMELOVÁ, Markéta, David ZELENÝ and Ching-Feng LI. Contrasting patterns of fine-scale herb layer species composition in temperate forests. Online. ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2017, vol. 80, April, p. 24-31. ISSN 1146-609X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2017.02.003. [citováno 2024-04-24]
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Original name Contrasting patterns of fine-scale herb layer species composition in temperate forests
Authors CHUDOMELOVÁ, Markéta (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), David ZELENÝ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Ching-Feng LI (158 Taiwan)
Edition ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY, Amsterdam, Elsevier, 2017, 1146-609X.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10618 Ecology
Country of publisher Netherlands
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 1.615
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/17:00094667
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2017.02.003
UT WoS 000400717600004
Keywords in English Spatial structures; Environmental heterogeneity; Ellenberg indicator values; Oak forest; Scalogram; Spatial eigenvector mapping
Tags NZ, rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
We examined fine-scale environmental determinants and spatial structures of herb layer communities in thermophilous oak- and hornbeam dominated forests of the south-eastern part of the Czech Republic. Species composition of herb layer vegetation and environmental variables were recorded within a fixed grid of 2 × 2 m subplots regularly distributed within 1-ha quadrate plots in three forest stands. For each site, environmental models best explaining species composition were constructed using constrained ordination analysis. Spatial eigenvector mapping was used to model and account for spatial structures in community variation. Mean Ellenberg indicator values calculated for each subplot were used for ecological interpretation of spatially structured residual variation. The amount of variation explained by environmental and spatial models as well as the selection of variables with the best explanatory power differed among sites. As an important environmental factor, relative elevation was common to all three sites, while pH and canopy openness were shared by two sites. Both the environmental and community variation was mostly coarse-scaled, as well as the spatially structured portion of residual variation. When corrected for bias due to spatial autocorrelation, those environmental predictors with already weak explanatory power lost their significance. Only a weak evidence of possibly omitted environmental predictor was found for autocorrelated residuals of site models using mean Ellenberg indicator values. Community structure was codetermined by different factors at different sites. The relative importance of environmental filtering vs. spatial processes was also site specific, implying that results of fine-scale studies tend to be shaped by local conditions. Contrary to expectations based on other studies, overall dominance of spatial processes at fine scale has not been detected. Ecologists should keep this in mind when making generalizations about community dynamics.
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GAP505/12/1022, research and development projectName: Beta diverzita rostlinných společenstev podél omezených ekologických gradientů
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
MUNI/A/1301/2016, interní kód MUName: Diverzita, dynamika a fylogenetické vztahy klíčových společenstev významných evropských biotopů (Acronym: DIDYF)
Investor: Masaryk University, Category A
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