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? Journal of Molluscan Studies. 2010, vol. 76, No 1, p. 1-10. ISSN 0260-1230.

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

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Other information

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

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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

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Abstract

V originále

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.

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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Links

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