2012
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658-93.5.1106
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The age of island‐like habitats impacts habitat specialist species richness

Abstract: While the effects of contemporaneous local environment on species richness have been repeatedly documented, much less is known about historical effects, especially over large temporal scales. Using fen sites in the Western Carpathian Mountains with known radiocarbon-dated ages spanning Late Glacial to modern times (16 975-270 cal years before 2008), we have compiled richness data from the same plots for three groups of taxa with contrasting dispersal modes: (1) vascular plants, which have macroscopic propagule… Show more

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“…Another difference is that the movement of individual species between habitat islands is less restricted due to the permeability of the matrix surrounding these habitat patches (Laurance 2008). Habitat islands can be both of natural (Horsák et al 2012;Liira et al 2014) or anthropogenic origin (Rejmánek and Rejmánková 2002;Krauss et al 2004). Habitat islands resulting from habitat loss due to anthropogenic activities are usually characterized by a shorter period of isolation (usually in the order of tens or hundreds of years).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Another difference is that the movement of individual species between habitat islands is less restricted due to the permeability of the matrix surrounding these habitat patches (Laurance 2008). Habitat islands can be both of natural (Horsák et al 2012;Liira et al 2014) or anthropogenic origin (Rejmánek and Rejmánková 2002;Krauss et al 2004). Habitat islands resulting from habitat loss due to anthropogenic activities are usually characterized by a shorter period of isolation (usually in the order of tens or hundreds of years).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Further, rather than colonization driven processes and age effect, which were found to influence spring fen assemblages of some other passive dispersers (Hájek et al, 2011a;Horsák et al, 2012Horsák et al, , 2015, the harpacticoid species richness may reflect habitat complexity. Further research should concentrate especially on disentangling the role of habitat heterogeneity and species small-scale distribution for ␣-diversity in the spring fens.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…Although landsnail distribution is largely influenced by the vegetation type, there is no such specific relation to a certain plant species, as in the case of phytophagous insects. This allows using these two groups as independent units to reveal general ecological patterns that possibly govern not only snail and plant assemblages (Braschler et al 2004;Baur et al 2006;Horsák et al 2007Horsák et al , 2012.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The majority of studies dealing with both plant and snail communities have only focused on assemblages of particular habitats, e.g., forests (e.g., Nilsson et al 1988;Saetersdal et al 2004), fens (e.g., Horsák & Hájek 2003;Hájek et al , 2012 or grasslands (e.g., Baur et al 1996;Braschler et al 2004;Dvořáková & Horsák 2012). In contrast, studies that attempt to compare species richness and the composition of plants and snails throughout the whole area and among different habitats are still lacking, most likely because a comprehensive dataset for both snails and plants over larger areas are difficult to access.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%