The calcareous riddle: Why are there so many calciphilous species in the Central European flora?

By J. Ewald. Folia Geobotanica, 2003

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The influence of paleoclimate on present-day patterns in biodiversity and ecosystems (2015, background): “This mechanism is at the heart of the tropical niche conservatism hypothesis (Latham & Ricklefs 1993, Wiens & Donoghue 2004), but it has also been applied to explain the relation of species richness to soil conditions (e.g., Ewald 2003, Laliberté et al. 2014).”
Biodiversity of Palaearctic grasslands: a synthesis (2014, background): “, 1998) or the medians (Ewald, 2003) of the frequency distributions of the overall vascular flora of Central Europe along these major ecological gradients according to the Ellenberg Indicator Values (EIVs; Ellenberg et al.”
Local and regional patterns of species richness in Central European vegetation types along the pH/calcium gradient (2003, methodology): “One possible explanation of the modern predominance of calcicoles over calcifuges in some temperate ecosystems is based on the historical predominance of calcareous soils, on which the evolution and formation of modern floras took place (GRUBB 1987, PÄRTEL 2002, EWALD 2003).”
Some ecophysiological and historical approaches to species richness and calcicole/calcifuge behaviour — contribution to a debate (2003, methodology): “This is demonstrated for Germany in the article by EWALD (2003, this issue), especially using the indicator values of ELLENBERG (1992). Ewald emphasizes that his conclusions are strictly valid only for Germany, although they are most likely valid for Central Europe as a whole.”
INVASIBILITY AND ABIOTIC GRADIENTS: THE POSITIVE CORRELATION BETWEEN NATIVE AND EXOTIC PLANT DIVERSITY (2005, background): “These exotics originate in a central European flora that is unusually rich in calcicole species compared to the eastern North American flora (Peet et al. 2003, Ewald 2003, Pärtel 2002).”
Panbiogeography of New Caledonia, south‐west Pacific: basal angiosperms on basement terranes, ultramafic endemics inherited from volcanic island arcs and old taxa endemic to young islands (2008, background): “A classic ‘calcareous riddle’ (Ewald, 2003) – why are there so many calciphilic species in the central European flora? – has a counterpart in the ‘ultramafic riddle’ of places like New Caledonia.”
Nutrient limitation and botanical diversity in wetlands: can fertilisation raise species richness? (2005, background): “It has been proposed that the size of regional species pools reflects past opportunities for speciation: fewer species would have evolved if a type of habitat was rare (Taylor et al. 1990, Zobel 1992, Schamp et al. 2002, Ewald 2003).”
Regional species pools of vascular plants in habitats of the Czech Republic (2007, unknown): “Thus, regional species pool sizes for these habitats may be a consequence of historical inertia rather than contemporary effects of the size of the area of these particular habitats (Aarssen & Schamp 2002, Pärtel 2002, Ewald 2003).”
Scale- and taxon-dependent biodiversity patterns of dry grassland vegetation in Transylvania (2014, background): “This striking pattern is usually explained by the dominance of calciphilous species in the regional species pools (Ewald, 2003; Pärtel, 2002), Author's personal copy”
Break zones in the distributions of alleles and species in alpine plants (2011, methodology): “those that are restricted to siliceous bedrock in the alpine belt, because substrate is a key factor determining species distribution in the Alps (Wohlgemuth, 2002; Ewald, 2003; Alvarez et al., 2009).”