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

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Author	Ewald, Jörg
Copyright Year	2003
Abstract	The pool of the Central European flora consists of a majority of vascular plant taxa that are restricted to very base rich and calcareous soils. Ellenberg indicator values for Germany indicate that this floristic pattern is one of the potentially most powerful determinants of the richness of modern temperate plant communities. Considering the example of the forest flora, which, as the putative natural core of the species pool, exhibits the same skew, it is shown that neither the frequency of suitable soil types nor other correlated ecological factors can explain this striking pattern. Also, the ramification of higher taxa offers no indication of higher evolution speeds in calciphilous plants. As an alternative, it is hypothesized that Pleistocene range contractions have caused the extinction of more acidophilous than calciphilous species, because acid soils were much rarer when refugial areas were at their minimum. If this is correct, one of the most significant ecological patterns in the contemporary distribution of plant diversity must be regarded as a result of ecological drift imposed by a historical bottleneck.
Starting Page	357
Ending Page	366
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISSN	12119520
Journal	Folia Geobotanica
Volume Number	38
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	18749348
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2003-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Biodiversity Indicator plants Soil acidity Species pool Species richness Life Sciences Plant Sciences Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography Plant Ecology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Plant Science Paleontology

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