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Mining and quarrying activities tend to favor stress-tolerant plants

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dc.contributor.author Fazlioglu, Fatih
dc.contributor.author Keskin, Gulaycan P.
dc.contributor.author Akcin, Oznur E.
dc.contributor.author Ozbucak, Tugba
dc.date.accessioned 2023-01-06T10:52:03Z
dc.date.available 2023-01-06T10:52:03Z
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.identifier.citation Fazlioglu, F., Keskin, GP., Akcin, OE., Ozbucak, T. (2021). Mining and quarrying activities tend to favor stress-tolerant plants. Ecological Indicators, 127, -.Doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107759 en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 1470-160X
dc.identifier.isbn 1872-7034
dc.identifier.uri http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107759
dc.identifier.uri https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000659185700005
dc.identifier.uri http://earsiv.odu.edu.tr:8080/xmlui/handle/11489/3408
dc.description WoS Categories : Biodiversity Conservation; Environmental Sciences Web of Science Index : Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) Research Areas : Biodiversity & Conservation; Environmental Sciences & Ecology Open Access Designations : gold en_US
dc.description.abstract Anthropogenic activities such as mining and agricultural practices may alter plant community structure and functioning. Grime's Competitors-Stress-Ruderal (CSR) strategy can be used to detect plant community transformations caused by environmental changes. We examined the effects of mining and quarrying activities on CSR strategies, species diversity, functional composition (community-weighted mean-CWM), and functional diversity (Rao's and Mason's indexes) of plant species from nearby an active Cu-Pb-Zn mine site and an agricultural site away from the mine. We determined the ecological strategies of 34 species using 13 functional traits. We found that ruderal strategy (e.g., high R-scores) was dominant in the agricultural site, whereas stress-tolerant species (e.g., high S-scores) were abundant in the mine site according to StrateFy that is a globally calibrated CSR analysis tool. Community-weighted mean (CWM) trait values were greater in the agricultural site where has relatively higher soil fertility than in the stressful mine site (e.g., low pH and heavy metal stress). Although species diversity was higher in the mine site, functional diversity in the agricultural site was slightly higher than that in the mine site as indicated by greater Rao's and Mason's index values. Our findings suggest that the effect of anthropogenic activities might be detected using CSR strategies both at species and community levels. Mining activities may favor stress-tolerant species, whereas agricultural practices (e.g., fertilization and mowing disturbance) may favor ruderal species in accordance with the CSR theory predictions. StrateFy CSR analysis tool can help us to quickly track shifts in ecological strategies of plants in response to changes in the environment and land-use. Therefore, CSR strategies can be used as bioindicators of anthropogenic activities. Moreover, under increasing abiotic stress, functional diversity of plant communities may decrease which can have crucial effects on community-level responses and eventually ecosystem functioning and services. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship Funding Orgs : Ordu University Research Council [A1811] Funding Name Preferred : Ordu University Research Council Funding Text : This study was funded by Ordu University Research Council (Project No: A1811) . en_US
dc.language.iso eng en_US
dc.publisher ELSEVIER AMSTERDAM en_US
dc.relation.isversionof 10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107759 en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess en_US
dc.subject HEAVY-METAL CONTAMINATION; FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY; MINE; TRAITS; COMMUNITIES; DIVERGENCE; ECOSYSTEMS; VICINITY en_US
dc.subject Ecological strategies; Functio n a l diversity; Abiotic stress; Functional traits; Species diversity en_US
dc.title Mining and quarrying activities tend to favor stress-tolerant plants en_US
dc.type article en_US
dc.relation.journal ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS en_US
dc.contributor.department Ordu Üniversitesi en_US
dc.contributor.authorID 0000-0002-4723-3640 en_US
dc.identifier.volume 127 en_US


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