ABRAHAM, Vojtěch, Petr KUNEŠ, Ondřej VILD, Eva JAMRICHOVÁ, Zuzana PLESKOVÁ, Barbora WERCHAN, Helena SVITAVSKÁ-SVOBODOVÁ and Jan ROLEČEK. Spatial scaling of pollen-plant diversity relationship in landscapes with contrasting diversity patterns. Scientific Reports. NATURE RESEARCH, 2022, vol. 12, No 1, p. 1-10. ISSN 2045-2322. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-22353-3.
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Original name Spatial scaling of pollen-plant diversity relationship in landscapes with contrasting diversity patterns
Authors ABRAHAM, Vojtěch (guarantor), Petr KUNEŠ, Ondřej VILD, Eva JAMRICHOVÁ (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution), Zuzana PLESKOVÁ (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution), Barbora WERCHAN, Helena SVITAVSKÁ-SVOBODOVÁ and Jan ROLEČEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
Edition Scientific Reports, NATURE RESEARCH, 2022, 2045-2322.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10618 Ecology
Country of publisher Germany
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 4.600
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/22:00127362
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-22353-3
UT WoS 000874705000060
Keywords in English Biodiversity; Ecosystem; Forests; Plants; Pollen; Trees
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Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
Mitigating the effects of global change on biodiversity requires its understanding in the past. The main proxy of plant diversity, fossil pollen record, has a complex relationship to surrounding vegetation and unknown spatial scale. We explored both using modern pollen spectra in species-rich and species-poor regions in temperate Central Europe. We also considered the biasing effects of the trees by using sites in forests and open habitats in each region. Pollen samples were collected from moss polsters at 60 sites and plant species were recorded along two 1 km-transects at each site. We found a significant positive correlation between pollen and plant richness (alpha diversity) in both complete datasets and for both subsets from open habitats. Pollen richness in forest datasets is not significantly related to floristic data due to canopy interception of pollen rather than to pollen productivity. Variances (beta diversity) of the six pollen and floristic datasets are strongly correlated. The source area of pollen richness is determined by the number of species appearing with increasing distance, which aggregates information on diversity of individual patches within the landscape mosaic and on their compositional similarity. Our results validate pollen as a reconstruction tool for plant diversity in the past.
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