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Effect of magnesite dust pollution on biodiversity and species composition of oak-hornbeam woodlands in the Western Carpathians

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We aimed to identify how the alkaline dust fallout from magnesite factories (Slovenské rudohorie Mts, Western Carpathians) affects biodiversity and species composition of oak-hornbeam forests, and to compare sensitivity of local biodiversity represented by vascular plants (including flowering plants and ferns) and cryptogams (cyanobacteria, macromycetes, slime molds, lichens, bryophytes). Altogether 24 plots were sampled along four degradation stages during the vegetation seasons 2011–2016: A – poorly developed vegetation on the magnesite crust, B – dense grassland vegetation almost without a tree-layer, C – degraded woodland with opened canopy, and D – visually unaffected original closed-canopy woodland. For each plot we sampled phytocoenological relevés including vascular plants and terrestrial cryptogams (cyanobacteria, lichens and bryophytes), and presence records for epiphytic lichens, epiphytic bryophytes, sporocarps of macromycetes (terrestrial, saprotrophic, parasitic and ectomycorrizal) and sporocarps of slime molds. We also analyzed concentrations of C, Ca, Mg, S, N, P, K in the soil, light conditions, bark pH and the distance from two emission sources (ES). Increased alkaline dust, corresponding to a smaller distance from the emission source correlated with higher concentrations of Mg, Ca, Fe, S, C/N in soil samples. Regressive succession converted oak-hornbeam woodland to degraded woodland with opened canopy, further to ruderal grasslands, then to halophilous procoenoses of Agrostis stolonifera and Puccinellia distans on degraded soils with eroded magnesite crust and biocrusts (formed by cyanobacteria Microcoleus steenstrupii, Nostoc microscopicum and Schizothrix arenaria; bryophytes Desmatodon cernuus, Didymodon tophaceus; pioneer terrestrial lichen Thelidium zwackhii) and finally into habitat with no vegetation. This is the first report on early successional stages with halophilous procoenoses in the Western Carpathians. We also recorded significant differences in species richness and the species pools in all organism groups along the gradient. Overall species diversity decreased. The degradation stages are characterized by low representation of symbiotic macromycetes and by a high proportion of saprotrophic macromycetes. The highest species richness of vascular plants was recorded in degradation stages B and C, the highest herb-layer cover in stage B. The highest species richness of terrestrial bryophytes is also found in dense grassland vegetation in stage B. Occurrence of nitrophilous epiphytic lichens differentiates unaffected oak-hornbeam woodlands from the plots close to the emission source.

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We are very grateful to Anna Petrášová for help with identification of terrestrial bryophytes. We also thank to anonymous reviewers and Michal Slezák (Associate Editor in Biologia) for their very valuable comments on the manuscript. The research was financially supported by the projects of the Slovak Scientific Grant Agency VEGA 2/0032/17, 1/0639/17 and 2/010118.

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  1. Administration of the Muránska planina National Park, J. Kráľa 12, SK-050 01, Revúca, Slovakia

    Drahoš Blanár

  2. Department of Phytology, Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, Masarykova 24, SK-960 53, Zvolen, Slovakia

    Drahoš Blanár & Karol Ujházy

  3. Institute of Botany, Plant Science and Biodiversity Centre, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, SK-845 23, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Anna Guttová

  4. Institute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Ľ. Štúra 2, SK-960 53, Zvolen, Slovakia

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  5. Department of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, Chittussiho 10, CZ-710 00, Ostrava, Czech Republic

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  7. Institute of Botany, Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, Zámek 1, CZ-252 43, Průhonice, Czech Republic

    Zdeněk Palice

  8. Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Benátská 2, CZ-128 01, Praha, Czech Republic

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Frequency (%) of terrestrial cryptogams (cyanobacteria, lichens, bryophytes) in degradation stages A, B, C and D (XLS 10 kb)

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Frequency (%) of macromycetes and slime molds in degradation stages A, B, C and D (XLS 35 kb)

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Blanár, D., Guttová, A., Mihál, I. et al. Effect of magnesite dust pollution on biodiversity and species composition of oak-hornbeam woodlands in the Western Carpathians. Biologia 74, 1591–1611 (2019). https://doi.org/10.2478/s11756-019-00344-6

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