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Mineral Soil Substrate Seed Banks: Understanding Their Role in Primary Succession and Enhancement of Habitat Recovery
Published in Artur Dyczko, Andrzej M. Jagodziński, Gabriela Woźniak, Green Scenarios: Mining Industry Responses to Environmental Challenges of the Anthropocene Epoch, 2022
Joanna Czarnecka, Wiktoria Hryń, Jaco Vangronsveld
Species distribution depends on dispersal processes at various spatial scales, availability of suitable microsites, and capacity of a population to persist after establishment (Eriksson & Ehrlén 1992; Ehrlén & Eriksson 2000). The ability of species to disperse as well as the seed rain intensity can influence the composition of plant communities (Münzbergová 2012). The importance of seed limitation has been often underestimated; however, experimental studies suggest that the local population size and distribution at the regional scale are sometimes highly limited by seed availability, and sometimes seeds have low efficiency in reaching potential patches for recruitment (Eriksson & Ehrlén 1992; Ehrlén & Eriksson 2000). Local species richness at a given site is usually directly proportional to the regional species pool. Distance and isolation from the pool of diaspores usually excludes many of species, while others reach the microsite but find the habitat unsuitable. Species interactions can also be important in structuring communities, but in the majority of cases (ecological systems) they appear to be less important (Lawton 1999). One of the frequently studied consequences of seed dispersal is formation of seed banks of different sizes (Tab. 1), which influence seedling spatial structure and, consequently, adult plant composition and distribution (Wang & Smith 2002).
Overview of past, current, and future ecosystem and biodiversity trends of inland saline lakes of Europe and Central Asia
Published in Inland Waters, 2020
Egor Zadereev, Oksana Lipka, Bakhtiyor Karimov, Marina Krylenko, Victoria Elias, Isabel Sousa Pinto, Valida Alizade, Yaakov Anker, Alan Feest, Daria Kuznetsova, Andre Mader, Rashad Salimov, Markus Fischer
Water level and related habitat area changes, especially water level decrease and associated salinity increase, have a negative impact on species richness (Aladin et al. 2009, Plotnikov 2016, Ginatullina et al. 2017). For lakes that experience cyclic fluctuations of water level, a lake that experiences water volume decrease and subsequent salinity increase will not necessarily have similarities to a lake with the opposite trend (Afonina and Tashlykova 2019). Recolonization of a lake from a regional species pool after a preceding water volume decrease and salinity increase can result in altered species composition.
Serving many masters at once: a framework for assessing ecosystem services delivered by quarry lakes
Published in Inland Waters, 2022
Laura M. S. Seelen, Sven Teurlincx, Margaret R. Armstrong, Miquel Lürling, Ellen van Donk, Lisette N. de Senerpont Domis
A characteristic of a living system that can supply a bequest value includes the provision of habitat for rare macrophyte species. Quarry lakes with a TP concentration of <35 μg/L are likely to contain species unique in the regional species pool (data from field campaign quarry lakes 2014–2015). Quarry lakes with a TP concentration >100 μg/L are unlikely to harbor any Red List species (Seelen et al. 2021; Supplemental Material; 3.2.2.2; Table 4).