Relative Importance of Current and Past Landscape Structure and Local Habitat Conditions for Plant Species Richness in Dry Grassland-Like Forest Openings

0432840 - BÚ 2015 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Husáková, I. - Münzbergová, Zuzana
Relative Importance of Current and Past Landscape Structure and Local Habitat Conditions for Plant Species Richness in Dry Grassland-Like Forest Openings.
PLoS ONE. Roč. 9, č. 5 (2014), s. 1-15. ISSN 1932-6203. E-ISSN 1932-6203
Institutional support: RVO:67985939
Keywords : landscape structure * species richness * dry grassland
Subject RIV: EF - Botanics
Impact factor: 3.234, year: 2014

We found that the current species richness of the forest openings was significantly determined by local habitat conditions as well as by landscape structure in the present and in the past. The highest species richness was observed on larger and more heterogeneous localities with rocks and shallow soils, which were already large and well connected to other localities in 1938. The changes in the landscape structure in the past can thus have strong effects on current species richness.
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