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Karst dolines provide diverse microhabitats for different functional groups in multiple phyla
Fine-scale topographic complexity creates important microclimates that can facilitate species to grow outside their main distributional range and increase biodiversity locally. Enclosed depressions in karst landscapes (‘dolines’) are topographically complex environments which produce microclimates t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6509348/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31073136 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-43603-x |
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author | Bátori, Zoltán Vojtkó, András Maák, István Elek Lőrinczi, Gábor Farkas, Tünde Kántor, Noémi Tanács, Eszter Kiss, Péter János Juhász, Orsolya Módra, Gábor Tölgyesi, Csaba Erdős, László Aguilon, Dianne Joy Keppel, Gunnar |
author_facet | Bátori, Zoltán Vojtkó, András Maák, István Elek Lőrinczi, Gábor Farkas, Tünde Kántor, Noémi Tanács, Eszter Kiss, Péter János Juhász, Orsolya Módra, Gábor Tölgyesi, Csaba Erdős, László Aguilon, Dianne Joy Keppel, Gunnar |
author_sort | Bátori, Zoltán |
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description | Fine-scale topographic complexity creates important microclimates that can facilitate species to grow outside their main distributional range and increase biodiversity locally. Enclosed depressions in karst landscapes (‘dolines’) are topographically complex environments which produce microclimates that are drier and warmer (equator-facing slopes) and cooler and moister (pole-facing slopes and depression bottoms) than the surrounding climate. We show that the distribution patterns of functional groups for organisms in two different phyla, Arthropoda (ants) and Tracheophyta (vascular plants), mirror this variation of microclimate. We found that north-facing slopes and bottoms of solution dolines in northern Hungary provided key habitats for ant and plant species associated with cooler and/or moister conditions. Contrarily, south-facing slopes of dolines provided key habitats for species associated with warmer and/or drier conditions. Species occurring on the surrounding plateau were associated with intermediate conditions. We conclude that karst dolines provide a diversity of microclimatic habitats that may facilitate the persistence of taxa with diverse environmental preferences, indicating these dolines to be potential safe havens for multiple phyla under local and global climate oscillations. |
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spelling | pubmed-65093482019-05-22 Karst dolines provide diverse microhabitats for different functional groups in multiple phyla Bátori, Zoltán Vojtkó, András Maák, István Elek Lőrinczi, Gábor Farkas, Tünde Kántor, Noémi Tanács, Eszter Kiss, Péter János Juhász, Orsolya Módra, Gábor Tölgyesi, Csaba Erdős, László Aguilon, Dianne Joy Keppel, Gunnar Sci Rep Article Fine-scale topographic complexity creates important microclimates that can facilitate species to grow outside their main distributional range and increase biodiversity locally. Enclosed depressions in karst landscapes (‘dolines’) are topographically complex environments which produce microclimates that are drier and warmer (equator-facing slopes) and cooler and moister (pole-facing slopes and depression bottoms) than the surrounding climate. We show that the distribution patterns of functional groups for organisms in two different phyla, Arthropoda (ants) and Tracheophyta (vascular plants), mirror this variation of microclimate. We found that north-facing slopes and bottoms of solution dolines in northern Hungary provided key habitats for ant and plant species associated with cooler and/or moister conditions. Contrarily, south-facing slopes of dolines provided key habitats for species associated with warmer and/or drier conditions. Species occurring on the surrounding plateau were associated with intermediate conditions. We conclude that karst dolines provide a diversity of microclimatic habitats that may facilitate the persistence of taxa with diverse environmental preferences, indicating these dolines to be potential safe havens for multiple phyla under local and global climate oscillations. Nature Publishing Group UK 2019-05-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6509348/ /pubmed/31073136 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-43603-x Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Bátori, Zoltán Vojtkó, András Maák, István Elek Lőrinczi, Gábor Farkas, Tünde Kántor, Noémi Tanács, Eszter Kiss, Péter János Juhász, Orsolya Módra, Gábor Tölgyesi, Csaba Erdős, László Aguilon, Dianne Joy Keppel, Gunnar Karst dolines provide diverse microhabitats for different functional groups in multiple phyla |
title | Karst dolines provide diverse microhabitats for different functional groups in multiple phyla |
title_full | Karst dolines provide diverse microhabitats for different functional groups in multiple phyla |
title_fullStr | Karst dolines provide diverse microhabitats for different functional groups in multiple phyla |
title_full_unstemmed | Karst dolines provide diverse microhabitats for different functional groups in multiple phyla |
title_short | Karst dolines provide diverse microhabitats for different functional groups in multiple phyla |
title_sort | karst dolines provide diverse microhabitats for different functional groups in multiple phyla |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6509348/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31073136 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-43603-x |
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