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Ants accelerate succession from mountain grassland towards spruce forest

SYSNO ASEP	0330941
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Článek ve WOS
Title	Ants accelerate succession from mountain grassland towards spruce forest
Title	Mravenci urychlují sukcesi z travinných na lesní společenstva
Author(s)	Vlasáková, B. (CZ) Raabová, J. (CZ) Kyncl, T. (CZ) Dostál, Petr (BU-J)_{RID, ORCID} Kovářová, Marcela (BU-J)_RID Kovář, P. (CZ) Herben, Tomáš (BU-J)_{RID, ORCID}
Number of authors	7
Source Title	Journal of Vegetation Science. - : Wiley - ISSN 1100-9233 Roč. 20, č. 4 (2009), s. 577-587
Number of pages	11 s.
Language	eng - English
Country	SE - Sweden
Keywords	anthills ; chronosequence ; disturbance
Subject RIV	EF - Botanics
CEZ	AV0Z60050516 - BU-J (2005-2011)
UT WOS	000267755000001
DOI	10.1111/j.1654-1103.2009.01077.x
Annotation	We demostrated that the massive occurrence of Lasius flavus anthills contributes to a runaway feedback process that accelerates succession towards forest. The effect of ants as ecosystem engineers is scale-dependent: although they stabilize the system at the scale of an individual mound, they may destabilize the whole grassland system over a longer time scale if combined with changes in mowing regime.
Workplace	Institute of Botany
Contact	Martina Bartošová, martina.bartosova@ibot.cas.cz, ibot@ibot.cas.cz, Tel.: 271 015 242 ; Marie Jakšová, marie.jaksova@ibot.cas.cz, Tel.: 384 721 156-8
Year of Publishing	2010

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