Contrasting Environmental Drivers Determine Biodiversity
Patterns in Epiphytic Lichen Communities along a European
Gradient

J 2020

Contrasting Environmental Drivers Determine Biodiversity Patterns in Epiphytic Lichen Communities along a European Gradient

HURTADO, Pilar, María PRIETO, Francesco DE BELLO, Gregorio ARAGÓN, Jesús LÓPEZ-ANGULO et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Contrasting Environmental Drivers Determine Biodiversity Patterns in Epiphytic Lichen Communities along a European Gradient

Authors

HURTADO, Pilar (guarantor), María PRIETO, Francesco DE BELLO, Gregorio ARAGÓN, Jesús LÓPEZ-ANGULO, Paolo GIORDANI, Eva María DÍAZ-PEÑA, Rebeca VICENTE, Sonia MERINERO, Alica KOŠUTHOVÁ (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution), Renato BENESPERI, Elisabetta BIANCHI, Helmut MAYRHOFER, Juri NASCIMBENE, Martin GRUBE, Mats WEDIN, Martin WESTBERG and Isabel MARTÍNEZ

Edition

Microorganisms, Basel, MDPI, 2020, 2076-2607

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10606 Microbiology

Country of publisher

Switzerland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 4.128

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/20:00117349

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8121913

UT WoS

000602609300001

Keywords in English

Beech forests; Climate; Epiphytic lichen; Functional diversity; Functional trait; Latitudinal gradient; Phylogenetic diversity Taxonomic diversity

Abstract

V originále

Assessing the ecological impacts of environmental change on biological communities requires knowledge of the factors driving the spatial patterns of the three diversity facets along extensive environmental gradients. We quantified the taxonomic (TD), functional (FD), and phylogenetic diversity (PD) of lichen epiphytic communities in 23 beech forests along Europe to examine their response to environmental variation (climate, habitat quality, spatial predictors) at a continental geographic scale. We selected six traits related to the climatic conditions in forest ecosystems, the water-use strategy and the nutrient uptake, and we built a phylogenetic tree based on four molecular markers. FD and climate determined TD and PD, with spatial variables also affecting PD. The three diversity facets were primarily shaped by distinct critical predictors, with the temperature diurnal range affecting FD and PD, and precipitation of the wettest month determining TD. Our results emphasize the value of FD for explaining part of TD and PD variation in lichen communities at a broad geographic scale, while highlighting that these diversity facets provide complementary information about the communities’ response under changing environmental conditions. Furthermore, traits such as growth form, photobiont type, and reproductive strategy mediated the response of lichen communities to abiotic factors emerging as useful indicators of macroclimatic variations. © 2020, MDPI AG. All rights reserved.

Citovat

HURTADO, Pilar, María PRIETO, Francesco DE BELLO, Gregorio ARAGÓN, Jesús LÓPEZ-ANGULO, Paolo GIORDANI, Eva María DÍAZ-PEÑA, Rebeca VICENTE, Sonia MERINERO, Alica KOŠUTHOVÁ, Renato BENESPERI, Elisabetta BIANCHI, Helmut MAYRHOFER, Juri NASCIMBENE, Martin GRUBE, Mats WEDIN, Martin WESTBERG and Isabel MARTÍNEZ. Contrasting Environmental Drivers Determine Biodiversity Patterns in Epiphytic Lichen Communities along a European Gradient. Microorganisms. Basel: MDPI, 2020, vol. 8, No 12, p. 1-14. ISSN 2076-2607. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8121913.

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HURTADO, Pilar, María PRIETO, Francesco DE BELLO, Gregorio ARAGÓN, Jesús LÓPEZ-ANGULO, Paolo GIORDANI, Eva María DÍAZ-PEÑA, Rebeca VICENTE, Sonia MERINERO, Alica KOŠUTHOVÁ, Renato BENESPERI, Elisabetta BIANCHI, Helmut MAYRHOFER, Juri NASCIMBENE, Martin GRUBE, Mats WEDIN, Martin WESTBERG and Isabel MARTÍNEZ. Contrasting Environmental Drivers Determine Biodiversity Patterns in Epiphytic Lichen Communities along a European Gradient. \textit{Microorganisms}. Basel: MDPI, 2020, vol.~8, No~12, p.~1-14. ISSN~2076-2607. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8121913.

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