Plant species richness and composition of heathland relics in north‐western Belgium: evidence for a rescue‐effect?

By K. Piessens, Olivier Honnay, Kris Nackaerts, Martin Hermy. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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The role of fragment area and isolation in the conservation of heathland species (2005, background): “Less than 1% of the heathland area present in 1775 remains (see Piessens et al. (2004) for more details).”
Does the heathland flora in north-western Belgium show an extinction debt? (2006, methodology): “Recent distribution data were obtained from our own surveys of heathland relics in the area in 2002 (Palmaerts et al., 2004; Piessens et al., 2004, 2005 ), and again supplemented with data from Florabank (Van Landuyt et al., 2000) for the period 1972‐2003.”
Traits related to species persistence and dispersal explain changes in plant communities subjected to habitat loss (2012, methodology): “The soil seed bank may thus act as a buffer against the extinction of small and isolated plant populations that are typical for present-day highly fragmented agricultural landscapes (Piessens et al., 2004).”
Can a seed bank maintain the genetic variation in the above ground plant population (2008, background): “Similarly, Piessens et al. (2004, 2005) showed that species with long-lived seeds were over-represented in spatially isolated heathland fragments in Belgium, suggesting a ‘temporal rescue effect’, with lower fragmentation-driven extinction rates for species with long-lived seeds than for species…”
Which plant traits predict species loss in calcareous grasslands with extinction debt? (2012, background): “Remaining semi-natural grasslands are either small and isolated (Piessens et al., 2004) or have experienced a decline in quality because of either encroachment by woody species (Pärtel et al., 1999b) or anthropogenic nutrient enrichment (Pykälä, 2000).”
Metapopulations and metacommunities: combining spatial and temporal perspectives in plant ecology (2012, background): “For example, species with seed banks have higher persistence in isolated habitats than those lacking this trait (Piessens et al. 2004; Lindborg 2007; Tremlova & Münzbergová 2007).”
Factors and processes affecting plant biodiversity in permanent grasslands. A review (2011, unknown): “Plant species richness increases with increasing connectivity due to increasing colonization rates (Joshi et al. 2006; Maurer et al. 2003; Piessens et al. 2004) and decreasing extinction rates (Pacha and Petit 2008; Piessens et al. 2004) because of higher gene flow (Piessens et al. 2004).”
Rethinking patch size and isolation effects: the habitat amount hypothesis (2013, background): “Many studies have found negative effects of such measures of patch isolation on species richness (e.g. van Dorp & Opdam, 1987; Beier et al., 2002; Piessens et al., 2004; Bailey et al., 2010; Galanes & Thomlinson, 2011; Sch€uepp et al., 2011; Uezu & Metzger, 2011; €Ockinger et al., 2012).”
Slow response of plant species richness to habitat loss and fragmentation. (2005, background): “In Belgian heathlands, Piessens et al. (2004, 2005) showed that the isolation of habitat fragments was more important in explaining species richness and community composition than fragment area.”