Detailed Information on Publication Record
2012
The age of island-like habitats impacts habitat specialist species richness
HORSÁK, Michal, Michal HÁJEK, Daniel SPITALE, Petra HÁJKOVÁ, Daniel DÍTĚ et. al.Basic information
Original name
The age of island-like habitats impacts habitat specialist species richness
Authors
HORSÁK, Michal (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Michal HÁJEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Daniel SPITALE (380 Italy), Petra HÁJKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Daniel DÍTĚ (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution) and Jeffrey NEKOLA (840 United States of America)
Edition
Ecology, 2012, 0012-9658
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Článek v odborném periodiku
Field of Study
10600 1.6 Biological sciences
Country of publisher
United States of America
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Impact factor
Impact factor: 5.175
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14310/12:00057097
Organization unit
Faculty of Science
UT WoS
000304368100015
Keywords in English
dispersal abilities; habitat age; habitat specialist; isolated fen habitats; path analysis; species richness
Změněno: 11/4/2013 19:02, Ing. Andrea Mikešková
Abstract
V originále
While the effects of contemporaneous local environment on species richness have been repeatedly documented, much less is known about historical effects, especially over large temporal scales. Using fen sites in the Western Carpathian Mountains with known radiocarbon-dated ages spanning Late Glacial to modern times (16 975–270 cal years before 2008), we have compiled richness data from the same plots for three groups of taxa with contrasting dispersal modes: (1) vascular plants, which have macroscopic propagules possessing variable, but rather low, dispersal abilities; (2) bryophytes, which have microscopic propagules that are readily transported long distances by air; and (3) terrestrial and freshwater mollusks, which have macroscopic individuals with slow active migration rates, but which also often possess high passive dispersal abilities. Using path analysis we tested the relationships between species richness and habitat age, area, isolation, and altitude for these groups. When only matrix-derived taxa were considered, no significant positive relation was noted between species richness and habitat size or age. When only calcareous-fen specialists were considered, however, habitat age was found to significantly affect vascular plant richness and, marginally, also bryophyte richness, whereas mollusk richness was significantly affected by habitat area. These results suggest that in inland insular systems only habitat specialist (i.e., interpatch disperser and/or relict species) richness is influenced by habitat age and/or area, with habitat age becoming more important as species dispersal ability decreases.
Links
| GAP504/11/0429, research and development project |
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| GAP505/11/0779, research and development project |
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| KJB601630803, research and development project |
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