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Comparative diversity of vascular plants in black alder floodplain and swamp forests of Central European biogeographical regions

Plant species diversity of black alder-dominated forests was studied in three biogeographical regions (Alpine, Continental and Pannonian) of Central Europe. They were represented by regions of the Polish Plain (Continental), the High Western Carpathians and Matricum of the Western Carpathians (Alpin...

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Autores principales: Hrivnák, Richard, Jarčuška, Benjamín, Jarolímek, Ivan, Kochjarová, Judita, Májeková, Jana, Hegedüšová Vantarová, Katarína, Slezák, Michal
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9836522/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36761646
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e90281
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author Hrivnák, Richard
Jarčuška, Benjamín
Jarolímek, Ivan
Kochjarová, Judita
Májeková, Jana
Hegedüšová Vantarová, Katarína
Slezák, Michal
author_facet Hrivnák, Richard
Jarčuška, Benjamín
Jarolímek, Ivan
Kochjarová, Judita
Májeková, Jana
Hegedüšová Vantarová, Katarína
Slezák, Michal
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description Plant species diversity of black alder-dominated forests was studied in three biogeographical regions (Alpine, Continental and Pannonian) of Central Europe. They were represented by regions of the Polish Plain (Continental), the High Western Carpathians and Matricum of the Western Carpathians (Alpine) and the Pannonian lowland (Pannonian). We analysed 35 plots per region in order to identify: i) local alpha (α) diversity defined as the counted number of plant taxa occurring in a single sampling plot, ii) amongst-site beta (β) diversity, iii) regional (γ) diversity defined as the total species richness of all sampling plots and iv) zeta diversity (ζ) as a generalisation of beta diversity. We recorded a total of 432 vascular plant taxa in all bioregions; more than 13% were alien plants. Statistically significant differences in species richness (α) of both native and alien plants were found between assemblages of the regions. The High Western Carpathians showed the highest native and the lowest alien plant species richness. Total β-diversity was high in all regions, but significantly differed amongst regions only for alien plant species. Cumulative native and alien species richness (γ) was the highest and lowest in the High Western Carpathians and Matricum of Western Carpathians, respectively. Our results identified the High Western Carpathians as a hotspot for diversity of native plants in Central European black alder-dominated forests.
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spelling pubmed-98365222023-02-08 Comparative diversity of vascular plants in black alder floodplain and swamp forests of Central European biogeographical regions Hrivnák, Richard Jarčuška, Benjamín Jarolímek, Ivan Kochjarová, Judita Májeková, Jana Hegedüšová Vantarová, Katarína Slezák, Michal Biodivers Data J Research Article Plant species diversity of black alder-dominated forests was studied in three biogeographical regions (Alpine, Continental and Pannonian) of Central Europe. They were represented by regions of the Polish Plain (Continental), the High Western Carpathians and Matricum of the Western Carpathians (Alpine) and the Pannonian lowland (Pannonian). We analysed 35 plots per region in order to identify: i) local alpha (α) diversity defined as the counted number of plant taxa occurring in a single sampling plot, ii) amongst-site beta (β) diversity, iii) regional (γ) diversity defined as the total species richness of all sampling plots and iv) zeta diversity (ζ) as a generalisation of beta diversity. We recorded a total of 432 vascular plant taxa in all bioregions; more than 13% were alien plants. Statistically significant differences in species richness (α) of both native and alien plants were found between assemblages of the regions. The High Western Carpathians showed the highest native and the lowest alien plant species richness. Total β-diversity was high in all regions, but significantly differed amongst regions only for alien plant species. Cumulative native and alien species richness (γ) was the highest and lowest in the High Western Carpathians and Matricum of Western Carpathians, respectively. Our results identified the High Western Carpathians as a hotspot for diversity of native plants in Central European black alder-dominated forests. Pensoft Publishers 2022-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9836522/ /pubmed/36761646 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e90281 Text en Richard Hrivnák, Benjamín Jarčuška, Ivan Jarolímek, Judita Kochjarová, Jana Májeková, Katarína Hegedüšová Vantarová, Michal Slezák https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Hrivnák, Richard
Jarčuška, Benjamín
Jarolímek, Ivan
Kochjarová, Judita
Májeková, Jana
Hegedüšová Vantarová, Katarína
Slezák, Michal
Comparative diversity of vascular plants in black alder floodplain and swamp forests of Central European biogeographical regions
title Comparative diversity of vascular plants in black alder floodplain and swamp forests of Central European biogeographical regions
title_full Comparative diversity of vascular plants in black alder floodplain and swamp forests of Central European biogeographical regions
title_fullStr Comparative diversity of vascular plants in black alder floodplain and swamp forests of Central European biogeographical regions
title_full_unstemmed Comparative diversity of vascular plants in black alder floodplain and swamp forests of Central European biogeographical regions
title_short Comparative diversity of vascular plants in black alder floodplain and swamp forests of Central European biogeographical regions
title_sort comparative diversity of vascular plants in black alder floodplain and swamp forests of central european biogeographical regions
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9836522/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36761646
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e90281
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