Testing the species pool hypothesis for mire vegetation: Exploring the influence of pH specialists and habitat history

Oikos

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1311-1322

  Hájek, Michal ^a,b   Tichý, Lubomír ^a   S Schamp, Brandon ^c   Zelený, David ^a   Roleček, Jan ^a   Hájková, Petra ^a,b   Apostolova, Iva ^d   Dítě, Daniel ^e  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH   (Bulgaria)

^e Administration of the Tatranský National Park   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MIRE; PH; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES POOL; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION HISTORY;

BULGARIA; CARPATHIANS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WESTERN CARPATHIANS;

EID: 34447621399     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2007.15637.x     Document Type: Article

References (61)

1. Aarssen, L. W. Schamp, B. S. 2002. Predicting distributions of species richness and species size in regional floras: applying the species pool hypothesis to the habitat templet model Persp. Plant Ecol. Evol. Syst. 5 : 3 12.
2. Bellamy, D. J. Rieley, J. 1967. Some ecological statistics of a "miniature bog" Oikos 18 : 33 40.
3. Boyer, M. L. H. Wheeler, B. D. 1989. Vegetation patterns in spring-fed calcareous fens: calcite precipitation and constrains on fertility J. Ecol. 77 : 597 609.
4. Chytrý, M. Otýpková, Z. 2003. Plot sizes used for phytosociological sampling of European vegetation J. Veg. Sci. 14 : 563 570.
5. Chytrý, M. et al. 2002. Determination of diagnostic species with statistical fidelity measures J. Veg. Sci. 13 : 79 90.
6. Chytrý, M. et al. 2003. Local and regional patterns of species richness in central European vegetation types along the pH/calcium gradient Folia Geobot. 38 : 429 442.
7. Ewald, J. 2003. The calcareous riddle: why are there so many calciphilous species in the central European flora? Folia Geobot. 38 : 357 366.
8. Gajewski, K. et al. 2001. Sphagnum peatland distribution in North America and Eurasia during the past 21 000 years Global Biogeochem. Cycles 15 : 297 310.
9. Glaser, P. H. et al. I. 1990. The response of vegetation to chemical and hydrological gradients in the Lost River peatland, northern Minnesota. - J. Ecol. 78: 1021-1048.
10. Gorham, E. Janssens, J. A. 1992. Concepts of fen and bog re-examined in relation to bryophyte cover and the acidity of surface waters Acta Soc. Bot. Pol. 61 : 7 20.
11. Grime, J. P. 1979. Plant strategies and vegetation processes. Wiley, Chilchester.
12. Grootjans, A. et al. 2005. Calcareous spring mires in Slovakia; Jewels in the Crown of the Mire Kingdom Steiner, G. M. Moore von Sibirien bis Feuerland. Stapfia, Wien 97 116.
13. Gunnarsson, U. et al. 2000. Diversity and pH changes after 50 years on the boreal mire Skattlosbergs Stormosse, Central Sweden J. Veg. Sci. 11 : 277 286.
14. Güsewell, S. et al. 2005. Nutrient limitation and botanical diversity in wetlands: can fertilisation raise species richness? Oikos 109 : 71 80.
15. Hájek, M. Hekera, P. 2004. Can temporal variation in fen water chemistry influence the reliability of vegetation-environment analyses? Preslia 76 : 1 14.
16. Hájek, M. et al. 2002. Spring fen vegetation and water chemistry in the western Carpathian flysch zone Folia Geobot. 37 : 205 224.
17. Hájek, M. et al. 2005. Notes on the Bulgarian wetland flora, including new national and regional records Phytol. Balc. 11 : 173 184.
18. Hájková, P. Hájek, M. 2003. Species richness and above-ground biomass of poor and calcareous spring fens in the flysch West Carpathians, and their relationship to water and soil chemistry Preslia 75 : 271 287.
19. Hájková, P. Hájek, M. 2004. Sphagnum-mediated successional pattern in the mixed mire in the Muránska planina Mts western Carpathians, Slovakia Biologia 59 : 65 74.
20. Hájková, P. et al. 2006. Diversity of wetland vegetation in the Bulgarian high mountains, main gradients and context-dependence of the pH role Plant Ecol. 184 : 111 130.
21. Hájková, P. et al. 2007. Shifts in ecological behaviour of plant species between two distant regions: evidence from base richness gradient in mires. - J. Biogr., in press.
22. Herben, T. 2000. Correlation between richness per unit area and the species pool cannot be used to demonstrate the species pool effect J. Veg. Sci. 11 : 123 126.
23. Horsák, M. 2006. Mollusc community patterns and species response curves along a mineral richness gradient: a case study in fens J. Biogr. 33 : 98 107.
24. Huisman, J. et al. 1993. A hierarchical set of models for species response analysis J. Veg. Sci. 4 : 37 46.
25. Huttunen, A. et al. 1992. Late-glacial and holocene history of flora and vegetation in the western Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria Acta Bot. Fenn. 144 : 63 80.
26. Johnson, J. B. Steingraeber, D. A. 2003. The vegetation and ecological gradients of calcareous mires in the South Park Valley, Colorado Can. J. Bot. 81 : 201 219.
27. Koleff, P. et al. 2003. Measuring beta diversity for presence-absence data J. Anim. Ecol. 72 : 367 382.
28. Kuhry, P. et al. 1993. Development of Sphagnum-dominated peatlands in boreal continental Canada Can. J. Bot. 71 : 10 22.
29. Lennon, J. J. et al. 2004. Contribution of rarity and commonness to patterns of species richness Ecol. Lett. 7 : 81 87.
30. Malmer, N. et al. 1992. Element concentrations in mosses and surface waters of western Canadian mires relative to precipitation chemistry and hydrology Ecography 15 : 114 128.
31. Natcheva, R. Cronberg, N. 2003. Genetic diversity in populations of Sphagnum capillifolium from the mountains of Bulgaria, and their possible refugial role J. Bryol. 25 : 91 99.
32. Navrátilová, J. et al. 2006. Relationships between environmental factors and vegetation in nutrient-enriched fens at fishpond margins Folia Geobot. 41 : 353 376.
33. Oksanen, J. Minchin, P. R. 2002. Continuum theory revisited: what shape are species responses along ecological gradients? Ecol. Modell. 157 : 119 129.
34. Peintinger, M. Bergamini, A. 2006. Community structure and diversity of bryophytes and vascular plants in abandoned fen meadows Plant Ecol. 185 : 1 17.
35. Pärtel, M. 2002. Local plant diversity patterns and evolutionary history at the regional scale Ecology 83 : 2361 2366.
36. Pärtel, M. et al. 1996. The species pool and its relation to species richness: evidence from Estonian plant communities Oikos 75 : 111 117.
37. Pärtel, M. et al. 2001. Variation in species richness within and between calcareous alvar grassland stands: the role of core and satellite species Plant. Ecol. 157 : 203 211.
38. Pither, J. Aarssen, L. W. 2005a. The evolutionary species pool hypothesis and patterns of freshwater diatom diversity along a pH gradient J. Biog. 32 : 503 513.
39. Pither, J. Aarssen, L. W. 2005b. Environmental specialists: their prevalence and their influence on community-similarity analyses Ecol. Lett. 8 : 261 271.
40. Prinzing, A. et al. R. 2001. The niche of higher plants: evidence for phylogenetic conservatism. - Proc. R. Soc. B. 268: 2383-2389.
41. Ralska-Jasiewiczowa, M. 1980. Late-glacial and Holocene vegetation of the Bieszczady Mts. Polish Eastern Carpathians. Warszawa/Krakow.
42. Rybníček, K. Rybníčková, E. 1968. The history of flora and vegetation on the Bláto mire in southeastern Bohemia, Czechoslovakia palaeoecological study Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 3 : 117 142.
43. Rydin, H. Barber, K. E. 2001. Long-term and fine-scale coexistence of closely related species Folia Geobot. 36 : 53 61.
44. Schamp, B. S. et al. 2002. Fewer species because of uncommon habitat? Testing the species pool hypothesis for low plant species richness in highly productive habitats Oikos 97 : 145 152.
45. Schamp, B. S. et al. 2003. Local plant species richness increases with regional habitat commonness across a gradient of forest productivity Folia Geobot. 38 : 273 280.
46. Schröder, H. K. et al. 2005. Rejecting the mean: estimating the response of fen plant species to environmental factors by non-linear quantile regression J. Veg. Sci. 16 : 373 382.
47. Sjörs, H. 1952. On the relation between vegetation and electrolytes in north Swedish mire waters Oikos 2 : 241 258.
48. Sjörs, H. Gunnarsson, U. 2002. Calcium and pH in north and central Swedish mire waters J. Ecol. 90 : 650 657.
49. Sparling, J. H. 1966. Studies on the relationships between water movement and water chemistry in mires Can. J. Bot. 44 : 747 758.
50. Tahvanainen, T. 2004. Water chemistry of mires in relation to the poor-rich vegetation gradient and contrasting geochemical zones of northeastern Fennoscandian shield Folia Geobot. 39 : 353 369.
51. Tahvanainen, T. Tuomaala, T. 2003. The reliability of mire water pH measurements - a standard sampling protocol and implications to ecological theory Wetlands 23 : 701 708.
52. Taylor, D. R. et al. 1990. On the relationship between r/K selection and environmental carrying capacity: a new habitat templet for plant life history strategies Oikos 58 : 239 250.
53. Tonkov, S. et al. 2002. The Holocene vegetation history of northern Pirin Mountain, southwestern Bulgaria: pollen analysis and radiocarbon dating of a core from Lake Ribno Banderishko Holocene 12 : 201 210.
54. Tyler, G. 2003. Some ecophysiological and historical approaches to species richness and calcicole/calcifuge behaviour - contribution to a debate Folia Geobot. 38 : 419 428.
55. van der Maarel, E. 1979. Transformation of cover-abundance values in phytosociology and its effects on community similarity Vegetatio 39 : 97 114.
56. Vitt, D.H. 2000. Peatlands: ecosystems dominated by bryophytes Shaw, A. J. Goffinet, B. Bryophyte biology. Cambridge Univ. Press 312 343.
57. Vitt, D. H. et al. 1995. Patterns of bryophyte diversity in peatlands of continental western Canada Bryologist 98 : 218 227.
58. Wheeler, B. D. Proctor, M. C. F. 2000. Ecological gradients, subdivisions and terminology of north-west European mires J. Ecol. 88 : 187 203.
59. Wheeler, B. D. Shaw, S. C. 1991. Above-ground crop mass and species richness of the principal types of herbaceous rich-fen vegetation of lowland England and Wales J. Ecol. 79 : 285 301.
60. Wilson, J. B. Anderson, B. J. 2001. Species-pool relations: like a wooden light bulb? Folia Geobot. 36 : 35 44.
61. Zonneveld, I. S. 1995. Vicinism and mass effect J. Veg. Sci. 6 : 441 444.