Environmental and spatial controls of biotic assemblages in a discrete semi-terrestrial habitat: comparison of organisms with different dispersal ability sampled in the same plots

HÁJEK, Michal, Jan ROLEČEK, Karl COTTENIE, Kateřina KINTROVÁ, Michal HORSÁK, Aloisie POULÍČKOVÁ, Petra HÁJKOVÁ, Markéta FRÁNKOVÁ and Daniel DÍTĚ. Environmental and spatial controls of biotic assemblages in a discrete semi-terrestrial habitat: comparison of organisms with different dispersal ability sampled in the same plots. Journal of Biogeography. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, vol. 38, No 9, p. 1683-1693. ISSN 0305-0270.

Basic information

• Original name: Environmental and spatial controls of biotic assemblages in a discrete semi-terrestrial habitat: comparison of organisms with different dispersal ability sampled in the same plots
• Authors: HÁJEK, Michal (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Jan ROLEČEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Karl COTTENIE (124 Canada), Kateřina KINTROVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Michal HORSÁK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Aloisie POULÍČKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic), Petra HÁJKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Markéta FRÁNKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Daniel DÍTĚ (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Journal of Biogeography, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, 0305-0270.

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: 4.544
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14310/11:00049997
• Organization unit: Faculty of Science
• UT WoS: 000293906600005
• Keywords in English: Bryophytes; diatoms; dispersal; environmental filtering; fen; metacommunity; molluscs; spatial scale; species sorting; vascular plants
• Tags: AKR, rivok
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

Our aim was to test how dispersal ability affects metacommunity structure and associated species distributions by sampling different species groups in the same plots. Our findings provide strong support for the hypothesis that both environmental and spatial variables structure metacommunities of organisms with very different dispersal abilities, including microscopic diatoms. In addition, we show for the first time that the strengths of these effects and their scale dependence may be predicted using important trait differences between organisms, for example differences in propagule size.

Links

• GAP505/11/0779, research and development project: Name: Vliv faktorů prostředí a schopnosti šíření na skladbu taxocenóz vodních bezobratlých v izolovaných prameništních slatiništích (Acronym: Bezobratlí v prameništních slatiništích)

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

• GA206/08/0389, research and development project: Name: Současné a historické změny na horských rašeliništních Sudet

Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Past and present changes in Sudeten mountain bogs

• 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