Snail faunas in the Southern Ural forests and their relations to vegetation: an analogue of the Early Holocene assemblages of Central Europe?

HORSÁK, Michal, Milan CHYTRÝ, Jiří DANIHELKA, Martin KOČÍ, Svatava KUBEŠOVÁ, Zdeňka LOSOSOVÁ, Zdenka OTÝPKOVÁ and Lubomír TICHÝ. Snail faunas in the Southern Ural forests and their relations to vegetation: an analogue of the Early Holocene assemblages of Central Europe?. Online. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 2010, vol. 76, No 1, p. 1-10. ISSN 0260-1230. [citováno 2024-04-23]

Basic information

• Original name: Snail faunas in the Southern Ural forests and their relations to vegetation: an analogue of the Early Holocene assemblages of Central Europe?
• Name in Czech: Lesní malakofauna jižního Uralu a její vztahy k vegetaci: analogie staroholocenních společenstev střední Evropy?
• Authors: HORSÁK, Michal (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Milan CHYTRÝ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jiří DANIHELKA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Martin KOČÍ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Svatava KUBEŠOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Zdeňka LOSOSOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Zdenka OTÝPKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Lubomír TICHÝ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)
• Edition: Journal of Molluscan Studies, 2010, 0260-1230.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 10600 1.6 Biological sciences
• Country of publisher: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• Impact factor: Impact factor: 0.969
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14310/10:00042671
• Organization unit: Faculty of Science
• UT WoS: 000273892900001
• Keywords (in Czech): Plži; lesy; jižní Ural; starý holocén; analogie; paleoekologie
• Keywords in English: Snails; forests; Southern Urals; Early Holocene; analogue; palaeoecology
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

A malacological study at 41 forest sites in the Southern Urals (Bashkortostan, Russia) conducted in 2007 gave the first quantitative data about land snail assemblages from this region. We explore the hypothesis that forests of this area are modern analogues of the Early Holocene forests of Central Europe. Snail species significantly accumulated towards more fertile, calcium-rich, and lowland sites; the richest faunas were in alluvial alder forests and mesic lime-maple-elm forests. Several features such as low snail species richness, predominance of generalist species with wide distributions, and broader realized niches of particular species in the Southern Ural forests relative to their niches elsewhere, corresponded to those of fossil assemblages from the Early Holocene deposits of Central Europe. Our data also suggest that the very limited species pool, results in species poor assemblages which are structured mainly by environmental filtering.

Abstract (in Czech)

Recentní lesní fauny plžů jižního Uralu jsou nápadně podobné fosilním společenstvům z období starého holocénu střední Evropy. Nejen na základě vegetace se zdá, že jižní Ural můžeme chápat jako velmi přesnou analogii přírody střední Evropy krátce po skončení doby ledové.

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• MSM0021622416, plan (intention): Name: Diverzita biotických společenstev a populací: kauzální analýza variability v prostoru a čase

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Diversity of Biotic Communities and Populations: Causal Analysis of variation in space and time