Small ones and big ones: cross-taxon congruence reflects organism body size in ombrotrophic bogs

0432487 - BÚ 2015 RIV NL eng J - Journal Article
Hájek, Michal - Poulíčková, A. - Vašutová, Martina - Syrovátka, V. - Jiroušek, M. - Štěpánková, J. - Opravilová, V. - Hájková, Petra
Small ones and big ones: cross-taxon congruence reflects organism body size in ombrotrophic bogs.
Hydrobiologia. Roč. 726, č. 1 (2014), s. 95-107. ISSN 0018-8158. E-ISSN 1573-5117
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA206/08/0389
Institutional support: RVO:67985939 ; RVO:67179843
Keywords : biomonitoring * multi-proxy * species richness
Subject RIV: EF - Botanics; EH - Ecology, Behaviour (UEK-B)
Impact factor: 2.275, year: 2014

We analysed the cross-taxon congruence of six contrasting groups of organisms (vascular plants, bryophytes, fungi, diatoms, desmids and testate amoebae) in permanent plots located in differently polluted summit ombrotrophic bogs in two regions of the Czech Republic. Generally, vascular plants, bryophytes and fungi provided similar information, while diatoms behaved most independently. The major division among the study taxa coincided with body size rather than with nutrition or propagule size.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0236851