Effectiveness of using vascular plants to select reserves for bryophytes and lichens

Pharo, Emma J.; Beattie, Andrew J.; Pressey, Robert L.

doi:10.1016/s0006-3207(00)00080-x

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“…This is because various lichen communities are susceptible to local species loss due to disturbance (Pharo et al 2000;Uliczka and Angelstam 2000;Nordén and Appelqvist 2001). Additionally, lichen communities can also become dominated by species that are resistant to the effects of disruption or pollution (Jüriado et al 2003;Humphrey et al 2002;Will-Wolf et al 2002;Brunialti and Giordani 2003;Nascimbene et al 2007).…”

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Lichen diversity and composition in Araucaria forests and tree monocultures in southern Brazil

2009

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Tree plantations for commercial use have been replacing native ecosystems all over the world. We investigated how forest conversion to plantations of exotic and native tree species may influence lichen diversity and composition in a southern Brazilian landscape. The lichen community from the National Forest of São Francisco de Paula was studied using three stands of each of the four vegetation types: native Araucaria forest and plantations of Araucaria, Pine and Eucalyptus trees. All plantation stands were surrounded by native Araucaria forest, were of smaller size and were allowed to endure longer than commercially managed plantations. Lichen species and their cover abundance were recorded on tree trunks from 30 to 150 cm above soil level in ten host-trees that were randomly selected in each replication. Seventy-eight lichen species, from 18 genera and 9 families, were registered. Conversion of native forest to plantations of exotic tree species altered species composition by reducing the occurrence of shade tolerant lichens. Plantations of Araucaria angustifolia sustained the highest lichen diversity measured, because this is an excellent host species. These results suggest that a greater diversity of lichens can be preserved in the landscape, if plantations of the exotic Pinus and Eucalyptus genera are replaced by plantations of this native species.

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Lichen diversity and composition in Araucaria forests and tree monocultures in southern Brazil

2009

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“…Vascular plants are an attractive group to use as surrogates for estimating the diversity of other groups as they constitute the bulk of the primary producers, reflect environmental conditions, provide physical habitat for other organisms, and are relatively easy to sample (Ryti 1992;Pharo et al 2000). Vascular plants have been reported as good surrogates for identifying reserve areas for invertebrates (e.g.…”

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Is vascular plant species diversity a predictor of bryophyte species diversity in Mediterranean forests?

2007

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This study aimed to (i) investigate the congruence among the species composition and diversity of bryophytes and vascular plants in forests; (ii) test if site prioritization for conservation aims by the maximization of the pooled number of vascular plant species is effective to maximize the pooled number of bryophyte species. The study was performed in six forests in Tuscany, Italy. Four-hundred and twenty vascular plant species (61 of which were woody) and 128 bryophyte species were recorded in 109 plots. Despite the good predictive value of the compositional patterns of both woody plants and total vascular with respect to the compositional pattern of bryophytes, the species richness of the latter was only marginally related to the species richness of the former two. Bryophyte rare species were not spatially related to rare plant species and neither coincided with the sites of highest plant species richness. The species accumulation curves of bryophytes behaved differently with respect to those of woody plants or total vascular plants. Reserve selection analysis based on the maximization of the pooled species richness of either woody plants or total vascular plants were not effective in maximizing the pooled species richness of bryophytes. This study indicates that species diversity of vascular plants is not likely to be a good indicator of the bryophyte species diversity in Mediterranean forests

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“…The use of guilds or morphological groups as indicators of changes in ecosystem function has been considered by several authors as a good compromise between the need for specialized knowledge and rapid field procedures employing non-specialist technicians, thus providing a possible shortcut in assessing total species richness (see, e.g., Pharo et al 2000;Giordani et al 2009). This issue has been considered in several ecological monitoring fields to explore the possibility of using surrogate species for estimate total biological diversity.…”

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“…This issue has been considered in several ecological monitoring fields to explore the possibility of using surrogate species for estimate total biological diversity. As an example, several studies have been performed to assess the congruence among vascular plants, vertebrate, invertebrate, bryophytes, and lichens within large-scale biomonitoring surveys using simplified assessment methods (see Oliver et al 1998;Pharo et al 2000;Wilkie et al 2003;Santi et al 2010). However, some conflicting results obtained from the works listed above suggest that this is not always the ideal solution and several critical issues emerge: Among the others, there are sources of variation coming from the fact that the communities do not always behave in a linear and unambiguous manner.…”

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Sampling and Interpreting Lichen Diversity Data for Biomonitoring Purposes

Giordani

Brunialti

2014

Recent Advances in Lichenology

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Effectiveness of using vascular plants to select reserves for bryophytes and lichens

Cited by 62 publications

References 22 publications

Lichen diversity and composition in Araucaria forests and tree monocultures in southern Brazil

Lichen diversity and composition in Araucaria forests and tree monocultures in southern Brazil

Is vascular plant species diversity a predictor of bryophyte species diversity in Mediterranean forests?

Sampling and Interpreting Lichen Diversity Data for Biomonitoring Purposes

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