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Environmental filtering is the primary driver of community assembly in forest–grassland mosaics : A case study based on CSR strategies

Erdős, László and Ho, Vu Khanh and Bede-Fazekas, Ákos and Kröel-Dulay, György and Tölgyesi, Csaba and Bátori, Zoltán and Török, Péter (2024) Environmental filtering is the primary driver of community assembly in forest–grassland mosaics : A case study based on CSR strategies. JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE, 35 (1). No. e13228. ISSN 1100-9233

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Abstract

Aims: Ecological strategies can provide information about plant community assembly and its main drivers. Our aim was to reveal the dominant strategies of the vegetationtypes of forest–grassland mosaics and to deduce the assembly processes responsible for their species composition.Location: Hungary.Methods: We investigated eight vegetation types of Hungarian forest–steppes. The trade-off between three key traits related to leaf size and economics was used to calculate Grime's competitive–stress tolerance–ruderal (CSR) value for each species, based on which the mean value for each vegetation type was determined. Detrended correspondence analysis (DCA) ordination was used to reveal the compositional dif -ferences among the vegetation types under study. To analyze how ecological strate-gies correlate with the compositional gradient, we used linear regression between plot ordination scores (the first DCA scores) and each strategy (C, S, and R). Linear mixed-effect models were used to evaluate the differences between the vegetation types regarding each strategy (C, S, and R).Results: Each vegetation type was dominated by the stress-tolerator strategy, indicat-ing the prominent role of environmental filtering in community assembly. However, ecological strategies differed significantly among the communities. The importance of

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Additional Information: Institute of Ecology and Botany, HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary HUN-REN-UD Functional and Restoration Ecology Research Group, Debrecen, Hungary Doctoral School of Environmental Sciences, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary Faculty of Natural Resources-Environment, Kien Giang University, Kien Giang, Viet Nam Department of Environmental and Landscape Geography, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary MTA-SZTE ‘Momentum’ Applied Ecology Research Group, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary Department of Ecology, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary Department of Ecology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary Polish Academy of Sciences, Botanical Garden – Center for Biological Diversity Conservation in Powsin, Warszawa, Poland Export Date: 1 March 2024 CODEN: JVESE Correspondence Address: Ho, K.V.; Doctoral School of Environmental Sciences, Hungary; email: hvkhanh@vnkgu.edu.vn
Uncontrolled Keywords: competitor, CSR, environmental filter, forest–steppe, leaf trait, ruderal, stress-tolerator
Subjects: Q Science / természettudomány > QH Natural history / természetrajz > QH540 Ecology / ökológia
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Depositing User: MTMT SWORD
Date Deposited: 10 Sep 2024 13:35
Last Modified: 10 Sep 2024 13:35
URI: https://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/204638

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