Shared affinity of various forest-dwelling taxa point to the continuity of temperate forests

Hofmeister, Jeňýk; Hošek, Jan; Brabec, Marek; Hermy, Martin; Dvořák, Daniel; Fellner, Rostislav; Malíček, Jiří; Palice, Zdeněk; Tenčík, Aleš; Holá, Eva; Novozámská, Eva; Kuras, Tomáš; Trnka, Filip; Zedek, Michal; Kašák, Josef; Gabriš, Radim; Sedláček, Ondřej; Tajovský, Karel; Kadlec, Tomáš

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.01.018

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“…All AFS cannot be considered rare or threatened everywhere. Interestingly, few studies have provided evidence of a positive relationship between AFS richness and the species richness of other forest-dwelling taxa (Hofmeister et al, 2019) or shown that the presence of AFS indicates forest communities with a high diversity (Stefańska-Krzaczek, Kącki, & Szypuła, 2016). More research is needed to investigate whether ancient forests have a high conservation value in terms or rare or endangered species.…”

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Historical ecology and ancient forests: Progress, conservation issues and scientific prospects, with some examples from the French case

Bergès

Dupouey

2020

J Vegetation Science

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Forest area has dramatically increased since the beginning or middle of the 19th century in European countries. At least half of the forests present today have grown on formerly cultivated lands, pastures or heathlands. However, net forest expansion largely masks a slow but irretrievable erosion of ancient forests. Meanwhile, forest resource harvesting (biomass, litter) has fundamentally changed during the last two centuries, moving from intensive biomass removal to increased growing stocks in different European countries. This article reviews the current knowledge on the longterm legacies of past land use and forest management practices and their effects on the functions, diversity and composition of understory vegetation of current forest ecosystems. First, we define the concepts of forest continuity and ancient forest. Then, based on the French case, we present the advances in historical sources, which make it possible to better reconstruct the change in land use and forest management practices over the last two hundred years. We review how understory plant communities and their traits respond to forest continuity and to different types of former agricultural uses, both at local and landscape scales. We then address three important issues for conservation and management: the conservation value of ancient forests, the impact of forest management on the ecological integrity of ancient forests, and the under-explored legacies of former forest management practices on soil and understory vegetation. Lastly, we propose five main fronts for future research efforts: (a) explore all types of cartographic, written sources and environmental markers; (b) develop modelling approaches to understand how past land use shapes plant communities; (c) better define the conservation value of ancient forests in conservation and management policies; (d) investigate how drivers of global change interact with forest management and land use legacies and (e) explore land use legacies in mountain and Mediterranean socio-ecological systems.

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Section: The Conservation Value Of Ancient Forestsmentioning

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Historical ecology and ancient forests: Progress, conservation issues and scientific prospects, with some examples from the French case

Bergès

Dupouey

2020

J Vegetation Science

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“…On the other hand, the reduction of soil nutrient limitations and the environmental heterogenisation due to past land uses can lead to the recruitment of more diverse functional features in recent woodlands (Morel, Barbe, et al, 2019), thus increasing the levels of both observed and potential (dark) alpha diversity. Animal groups may also be sensitive to the forest temporal continuity, in particular arthropods, which are highly dependent to local habitat conditions (Hofmeister et al, 2019). Among arthropods, spiders might be particularly interesting to survey because they are ubiquitous in all terrestrial ecosystems, and the structure of their community might be gradually reshaped during the successional trajectory (Morel, Dujol, et al, 2019).…”

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From taxonomic to functional dark diversity: Exploring the causes of potential biodiversity and its implications for conservation

Morel

Jung

Chollet

et al. 2021

Journal of Applied Ecology

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“…The use of lichen functional traits to assess the naturalness of the forest, or the degree of its transformation, is possible only if a reference ecosystem, which may be treated as a model for the distribution of lichen functional traits, is known. Therefore, forest areas protected from direct human influence deserve special attention; they are biodiversity hotspots [18][19][20][21][22] and model ecosystems for identifying and assessing the role of various environmental factors, e.g., climatic conditions (temperature, precipitation), type of forest stand or composition of tree species building the forest, in shaping lichen species diversity patterns and their functional traits [20,23,24]. Until now, model studies concerning the composition and distribution of lichen functional traits in well-preserved areas of the different regions of Europe, with various forest communities and diverse tree species composition, are rare and mostly conducted in mountain areas [8].…”

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Composition and Specialization of the Lichen Functional Traits in a Primeval Forest—Does Ecosystem Organization Level Matter?

Łubek

Kukwa

Jaroszewicz

et al. 2021

Forests

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Current trends emphasize the importance of the examination of the functional composition of lichens, which may provide information on the species realized niche diversity and community assembly processes, thus enabling one to understand the specific adaptations of lichens and their interaction with the environment. We analyzed the distribution and specialization of diverse morphological, anatomical and chemical (lichen secondary metabolites) traits in lichen communities in a close-to-natural forest of lowland Europe. We considered these traits in relation to three levels of forest ecosystem organization: forest communities, phorophyte species and substrates, in order to recognize the specialization of functional traits to different levels of the forest complexity. Traits related to the sexual reproduction of mycobionts (i.e., ascomata types: lecanoroid apothecia, lecideoid apothecia, arthonioid apothecia, lirellate apothecia, stalked apothecia and perithecia) and asexual reproduction of mycobionts (pycnidia, hyphophores and sporodochia) demonstrated the highest specialization to type of substrate, tree species and forest community. Thallus type (foliose, fruticose, crustose and leprose thalli), ascospore dark pigmentation and asexual reproduction by lichenized diaspores (soredia and isidia) revealed the lowest specialization to tree species and substrate, as well as to forest community. Results indicate that lichen functional trait assemblage distribution should not only be considered at the level of differences in the internal structure of the analyzed forest communities (e.g., higher number of diverse substrates or tree species) but also studied in relation to specific habitat conditions (insolation, moisture, temperature, eutrophication) that are characteristic of a particular forest community. Our work contributes to the understanding of the role of the forest structure in shaping lichen functional trait composition, as well as enhancing our knowledge on community assembly rules of lichen species.

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Shared affinity of various forest-dwelling taxa point to the continuity of temperate forests

Cited by 19 publications

References 53 publications

Historical ecology and ancient forests: Progress, conservation issues and scientific prospects, with some examples from the French case

Historical ecology and ancient forests: Progress, conservation issues and scientific prospects, with some examples from the French case

From taxonomic to functional dark diversity: Exploring the causes of potential biodiversity and its implications for conservation

Composition and Specialization of the Lichen Functional Traits in a Primeval Forest—Does Ecosystem Organization Level Matter?

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