LOIDI, Javier, Milan CHYTRÝ, Borja JIMÉNEZ-ALFARO, Nicola ALESSI, Idoia BIURRUN, Juan Antonio CAMPOS, Andraž ČARNI, Eduardo FERNÁNDEZ-PASCUAL, Xavier Font CASTELL, Hamid GHOLIZADEH, Adrian INDREICA, Ali KAVGACI, Ilona KNOLLOVÁ, Alireza NAQINEZHAD, Pavel NOVÁK, Arkadiusz NOWAK, Željko ŠKVORC, Ioannis TSIRIPIDIS, Kiril VASSILEV and Corrado MARCENO'. Life-form diversity across temperate deciduous forests of Western Eurasia: A different story in the understory. Journal of Biogeography. Hoboken: Wiley, 2021, vol. 48, No 11, p. 2932-2945. ISSN 0305-0270. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14254.
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Original name Life-form diversity across temperate deciduous forests of Western Eurasia: A different story in the understory
Authors LOIDI, Javier (guarantor), Milan CHYTRÝ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Borja JIMÉNEZ-ALFARO, Nicola ALESSI, Idoia BIURRUN, Juan Antonio CAMPOS, Andraž ČARNI, Eduardo FERNÁNDEZ-PASCUAL, Xavier Font CASTELL, Hamid GHOLIZADEH, Adrian INDREICA, Ali KAVGACI, Ilona KNOLLOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Alireza NAQINEZHAD, Pavel NOVÁK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Arkadiusz NOWAK, Željko ŠKVORC, Ioannis TSIRIPIDIS, Kiril VASSILEV and Corrado MARCENO' (380 Italy, belonging to the institution).
Edition Journal of Biogeography, Hoboken, Wiley, 2021, 0305-0270.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10511 Environmental sciences
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 4.810
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/21:00119462
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14254
UT WoS 000697947200001
Keywords in English Europe; Euxinian; forest diversity; forest floor; Hyrcanian; life form; shrub layer; species richness; tree layer
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Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Marie Šípková, DiS., učo 437722. Changed: 6/1/2022 17:06.
Abstract
Aim To analyse the biogeographic patterns of Temperate Deciduous Forests (TDFs) in Western Eurasia based on different life-forms and forests layers and explore their relationships with the current climate, Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) climate and topography. Location Western Eurasia. Taxon Vascular plants. Methods We delimited nine regions encompassing the variability of TDFs in Western Eurasia and collected 1000 vegetation plots from each. We deconstructed the plant communities into three layers, tree, shrub and floor. We used (i) generalized linear mixed models (GLMM) to analyse the influence of current climate, historical climate and topography on species richness by accounting for regional effects and (ii) redundancy analysis (RDA) with variance partitioning to describe the variation in life forms along abiotic gradients. The three forest layers were analysed jointly and separately. Results The Balkans, Alps and Carpathians appeared to be the richest in plant species, whereas the British Isles and the Hyrcanian region were the poorest. Annual temperature range and annual mean temperature were the best predictors of species richness for the whole dataset and for the shrub layer. The tree layer richness was mainly explained by the annual temperature range and by elevation, whereas the forest floor richness was more related to the annual temperature range and the annual mean temperature differences between the LGM and current climate. The current climate was the main predictor of the composition of the whole community, the tree layer and the floor layer, while the shrub layer was also influenced by historical climate. Main conclusions Our overview of the diversity of temperate deciduous forests in Western Eurasia demonstrates different patterns and drivers across life-forms and forest layers. While the diversity of trees is mainly linked to current climatic conditions, the shrub layer is also driven by postglacial-glacial climatic stability, suggesting a different origin from forest trees.
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GX19-28491X, research and development projectName: Centrum pro evropské vegetační syntézy (CEVS) (Acronym: CEVS)
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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