2021
Life-form diversity across temperate deciduous forests of Western Eurasia: A different story in the understory
LOIDI, Javier, Milan CHYTRÝ, Borja JIMÉNEZ-ALFARO, Nicola ALESSI, Idoia BIURRUN et. al.Basic information
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
Other information
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
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: 6/1/2022 17:06, Mgr. Marie Novosadová Šípková, DiS.
Abstract
V originále
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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