ŠORFOVÁ, Vanda, Martina POLÁKOVÁ, Jindřiška BOJKOVÁ, Vendula POLÁŠKOVÁ, Jana SCHENKOVÁ and Michal HORSÁK. Environmental heterogeneity, dispersal mode and habitat specialisation modify within-site beta diversity of spring macroinvertebrates. International Review of Hydrobiology. Hoboken: Wiley, 2022, vol. 107, 3-4, p. 145-153. ISSN 1434-2944. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/iroh.202102112.
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Original name Environmental heterogeneity, dispersal mode and habitat specialisation modify within-site beta diversity of spring macroinvertebrates
Authors ŠORFOVÁ, Vanda (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Martina POLÁKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jindřiška BOJKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Vendula POLÁŠKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jana SCHENKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Michal HORSÁK (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition International Review of Hydrobiology, Hoboken, Wiley, 2022, 1434-2944.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10617 Marine biology, freshwater biology, limnology
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: 1.900
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/22:00126363
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/iroh.202102112
UT WoS 000749348400001
Keywords in English conservation; dispersal ability; groundwater-fed ecosystem; habitat specialists; helocrene; spatial structuring
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Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Marie Šípková, DiS., učo 437722. Changed: 8/8/2022 15:04.
Abstract
Spring helocrenes are a unique aquatic environment with high biotic diversity. Although environmental heterogeneity has traditionally been assumed to explain the high species richness of spring habitats, this assumption has never been properly tested. Here, we sampled macroinvertebrates from two calcareous helocrenes in Slovakia with visually distinguishable mesohabitat heterogeneity. We hypothesise that macroinvertebrate beta diversity significantly increases with environmental heterogeneity even at a small within-site spatial scale. We also examined four species-trait categories, that is, active or passive dispersers and habitat specialists or generalists. Significant spatial structuring of environmental heterogeneity was found at one site, whereas the other site did not show a clear spatial pattern. Strong associations were found between beta diversity of all species trait categories and environmental heterogeneity at the first site, while there were virtually no associations at the second site. Specialists were not spatially structured at any of the sites examined. Our results suggest that invertebrate beta diversity responds positively to environmental heterogeneity at a site by also tracking spatial structuring of abiotic conditions. However, the response may vary depending on the dispersal mode and habitat specialisation of the invertebrates.
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GA20-17305S, research and development projectName: Klimaticky podmíněná homogenizace vodních bezobratlých testovaná na třech modelových systémech a historických datech
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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