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{"title":"Patterns of nutrients and algal biomass in an intermittent Mediterranean river under intense human activity","authors":"Gabriela Córdoba-Ariza ,&nbsp;Rafael Muñoz-Mas ,&nbsp;Ramon J. Batalla ,&nbsp;Josep Mas-Pla ,&nbsp;Sergi Sabater","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113409","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113409","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Non-perennial streams are often affected by human activities such as sewage water disposal and agriculture. The limited capacity of these systems to dilute pollutants, along with the extent of water flow interruption, leads to a high variability of nutrient concentrations and algal biomass, with relevant implications for water quality. The temporal and spatial patterns of nutrients—Total Nitrogen (TN), Nitrates (<span><math><msubsup><mrow><mi>N</mi><mi>O</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>3</mn></mrow><mo>-</mo></msubsup></math></span>), Total Phosphorus (TP), and Phosphates (<span><math><msubsup><mrow><mi>P</mi><mi>O</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>4</mn></mrow><mrow><mn>3</mn><mo>-</mo></mrow></msubsup></math></span>)—and chlorophyll (as a surrogate of algal biomass) were characterized in a Mediterranean river system to determine their relationship to water flow intermittency and human activities. To achieve this, monthly measurements of water quality, physicochemical characteristics and algal biomass were collected at 23 different locations over 14 months, coinciding with the onset of drought conditions in the region. Random forest regression and the model-agnostic SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) enabled us to identify the most influential hydrological and land use features for nutrient concentrations and map the spatial variation of their effects across the basin. The highest variability in nutrient concentrations occurred in the headwaters, while high values consistently occurred in the middle and lower segments. While TN and <span><math><msubsup><mrow><mi>N</mi><mi>O</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>3</mn></mrow><mo>-</mo></msubsup></math></span> sources were diffuse, mainly agriculture, TP and <span><math><msubsup><mrow><mi>P</mi><mi>O</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>4</mn></mrow><mrow><mn>3</mn><mo>-</mo></mrow></msubsup></math></span> levels were determined by the number of effluent point sources. Overall, water flow intermittency was not a strong predictor of nutrient patterns; however, its influence was more pronounced at specific sites. Applying the same modeling approach, we identified that suspended chlorophyll levels (but not benthic chlorophyll) correlated with nutrient concentrations, showing a notable association to TP and seasonal variations in precipitation and temperature. Our analysis underscores the complex interactions between hydrology, human activities, and nutrient dynamics in river basins subjected to water flow intermittency and highlights the need for management strategies focused on local polluted points.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11459,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Indicators","volume":"173 ","pages":"Article 113409"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143777230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Actual supply of soil conservation services limits their use: From an ecosystem service flow perspective","authors":"Jizhou Bai ,&nbsp;Jing Li ,&nbsp;Zixiang Zhou ,&nbsp;Hui Dang ,&nbsp;Ya Zhang ,&nbsp;Chuhan Wang ,&nbsp;Yijie Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113420","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113420","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Soil conservation services (SCS) represent a vital subset of ecosystem regulating services, playing a critical role in mitigating regional land degradation and reducing flood disaster risks, a subject that has garnered considerable scholarly attention. Nevertheless, a significant mismatch persists between SCS supply and demand, highlighting the need for a deeper understanding of how SCS flows operate from supply areas to demand areas. Despite its importance, research on the dynamics of SCS flows remains underdeveloped, limiting its ability to provide robust support for informed and nuanced decision-making in sustainable ecosystem management. To address this research gap, this study conducted an investigation in the Jinghe River Basin (JRB), utilizing SWAT and GIS technologies to reproduce the spatiotemporal patterns of SCS. Additionally, this study quantitatively assessed and mapped the sediment reduction service flow volumes and pathways at four different spatial scales, aiming to elucidate the spatial transfer mechanisms of SCS flow within the JRB. Finally, based on the supply–demand-flow-use (SDFU) framework, this study quantifies the actual use of SCS flow by calculating its actual supply and potential demand, with a focus on analyzing the limitations to its actual use. The findings of this research yield several critical insights: (1) The spatial distribution patterns of high and low values in SCS supply and demand within the JRB exhibited significant congruence, while both components manifested a consistent temporal trajectory characterized by rapid initial escalation followed by subsequent stabilization. (2) The transport of SCS, facilitated by sediments in the water column, undergoes spatial displacement through slopes, rivers, and subbasins within the watershed network, with the flow volume of sediment reduction services reaching its nadir in 2000, increasing significantly in 2010, and slightly declining in 2020. (3) From 2000 to 2020, the actual use of SCS followed a similar trend to SCS flow, with the demand satisfaction rate steadily increasing (0.22, 0.34, 0.77), indicating that while the actual supply of SCS is meeting more demand, it still fails to fully satisfy the actual use. In summary, the attempt of this study not only enriches the research field of ecosystem service flow but also promises to provide theoretical guidance for the scientific management of land resources and sustainable regional development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11459,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Indicators","volume":"173 ","pages":"Article 113420"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143746484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Differential aridity-induced variations in ecosystem multifunctionality between Iberian Pinus and Quercus Mediterranean forests","authors":"Cristina C. Bastias ,&nbsp;Ginés Rodríguez Castilla ,&nbsp;Pablo Salazar Zarzosa ,&nbsp;Aurelio Díaz Herraiz ,&nbsp;Nuria González Herranz ,&nbsp;Paloma Ruiz-Benito ,&nbsp;Vidal Barrón ,&nbsp;José Luis Quero Pérez ,&nbsp;Rafael Villar","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113411","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113411","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Forests deliver multiple ecosystem functions and services (i.e. multifunctionality) of great importance to society. However, such multifunctionality capacity is threatened by global warming, especially in Mediterranean forests, which are at high risk of desertification according to climate projections. Certain studies suggest that rising aridity could drastically reduce ecosystem multifunctionality. Yet, the application of this pattern to forests remains uncertain due to their inherent structural complexity and the critical influence of species identity, which make the aridity-multifunctionality relationship not straightforward. Here, we studied 56 plots dominated by four key Mediterranean tree species from <em>Pinus</em> and <em>Quercus</em> genus (<em>Pinus halepensis</em> Mill., <em>Pinus pinaster</em> Ait., <em>Quercus faginea</em> Lam., <em>Quercus ilex</em> L.) along aridity gradients. In each plot, we measured ten ecosystem functions (EFs) such as primary productivity, forest regeneration, biodiversity, decomposition, and nutrient cycling. From these EFs, we assessed shifts in both single-EF and multifunctionality (calculated from averaging and multivariate approaches) across aridity gradients. Our findings indicated that while <em>Pinus</em> forests significatively suffer a multifunctionality loss with increasing aridity, <em>Quercus</em>-dominated forests showed fluctuations in multifunctionality across aridity levels. Forest productivity emerged as a key driver shaping the negative multifunctionality-aridity relationship in <em>Pinus</em> forests. However, the effect of primary productivity was not always synergistic with other ecosystem functions as it has been often assumed and its exclusion from the multifunctionality index calculation did not change the overall pattern of a decrease of ecosystem multifunctionality with aridity. Moreover, a notable loss of ecosystem functional covariation (i.e. interactions between EFs) was found with aridity, more pronounced in <em>Pinus</em> than in <em>Quercus</em>. The contrasting aridity-driven responses in multifunctionality and their EFs interactions between <em>Pinus</em> vs. <em>Quercus</em> forests highlight the fact that distinct management strategies will have to be employed to face climate change and ensure the capacity of these fragile forests to provide essential ecosystem services.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11459,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Indicators","volume":"173 ","pages":"Article 113411"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143760300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Road network expansion and landscape dynamics in the Chaohu Lake wetland: A 20-year analysis","authors":"Xiang Gao ,&nbsp;Yue Qian ,&nbsp;Yifan Fang ,&nbsp;Xuerui Shi ,&nbsp;Saisai Yao ,&nbsp;Bin Dong ,&nbsp;Kai Ji ,&nbsp;Zhichao Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113443","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113443","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Transportation networks are crucial for social and economic development and information exchange. Although China’ has made substantial investments in transportation infrastructure to, foster progress in these areas, these investments have also led to adverse ecological consequences, such as disruption of natural landscapes and destruction of animal habitats. This study investigates the impact of transportation network expansion on landscape patterns in the Chaohu Lake wetland over 20 years. Using Landsat remote sensing imagery, kernel density estimation and landscape index analysis were employed to quantify changes in landscape composition and configuration. Spatial autocorrelation analysis was conducted to examine the spatiotemporal influence of the transportation network and topography on landscape structure and ecology. Additionally, the integrated valuation of ecosystem services and trade-offs model was used to assess the relationship between road construction and habitat quality changes in the Chaohu Lake area. The results indicate a decline in farmland and an increase in construction land, accompanied by an increase in road-network density, particularly in the northwestern and eastern regions over the past 20 years. Road expansion contributed to landscape fragmentation and increased landscape diversity. Between 2012 and 2023, habitat quality in the Chaohu Lake water body remained stable, while urban areas experienced a decline. This study highlights the ecological consequences of transportation infrastructure development and underscores the need to explore mitigation strategies, such as ecological restoration, to minimize the negative impacts of road-network construction on the environment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11459,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Indicators","volume":"173 ","pages":"Article 113443"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143799899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Crustacean zooplankton communities as indicators of game fish occurrence and abundance in Québec lakes","authors":"Cindy Paquette ,&nbsp;Stéphanie Gagné ,&nbsp;Maxime Gaudet-Boulay ,&nbsp;Véronique Leclerc ,&nbsp;Paschale Noël Bégin ,&nbsp;Zofia E. Taranu ,&nbsp;Beatrix E. Beisner ,&nbsp;Vincent Fugère","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113405","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113405","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recreational inland fisheries play a vital role in the economy and culture of Canada. However, human activities and climate change are significant threats to lakes that sustain such fisheries, bolstering the need to maintain ecosystem quality while sustaining fisheries through approaches such as ecosystem-based management. Despite the importance of zooplankton communities for fish diet, very few freshwater management plans have integrated information from this lower trophic level. Here, we used a dataset including game fish abundance, crustacean zooplankton community composition and associated habitat variables in 94 north temperate lakes across the province of Quebec, Canada. Our study aimed to uncover whether zooplankton taxonomic and functional community properties were related to walleye, brook trout, and lake trout occurrence and abundance. Our analyses revealed that both taxonomic and functional zooplankton composition were significant predictors of focal fish species occurrence, albeit less so than environmental or fish community composition variables. When examining the importance of 30 different zooplankton community indices for target fish species abundance, structural equation modeling revealed that zooplankton was more important for walleye than for the two other fish species. Overall, this research improves our understanding of zooplankton-fish interactions and how these shape north temperate lake communities, with a perspective of improving fisheries conservation and management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11459,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Indicators","volume":"173 ","pages":"Article 113405"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143726179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Integrating ecosystem service losses into life cycle assessment on the treatment of 40 categories of hazardous waste: A China case study","authors":"Xincong Liu ,&nbsp;Mengdi Zhang ,&nbsp;Wenyue Hou ,&nbsp;Ran Fang ,&nbsp;Li Zeng ,&nbsp;Wei Xiao","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113401","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113401","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The 16th Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention indicated the need to manage hazardous waste using a life cycle approach to control environmental impacts. However, the environmental impacts of hazardous waste treatment have not yet been adequately assessed, particularly regarding the lack of an evaluation framework for the impacts on ecosystem services. This study employs a life cycle assessment (LCA) framework integrating ecosystem service losses, to assess the environmental impacts of a case hazardous waste treatment plant in southwest China. The results show that in the lifecycle stages of hazardous waste treatment, the operation stage has the largest environmental impact. Among the different treatment processes, incineration has the largest environmental impact, while rigid landfilling has the lowest. Besides, the losses of the treatment of hazardous waste on ecosystem services are 77.12 yuan per ton, accounting for approximately 6.43% to 38.56% of the treatment costs. Sensitivity and uncertainty analysis demonstrate the robustness of the results. Finally, the implications including expanding the LCA boundaries of hazardous waste treatment, ecological compensation for ecosystem service losses, and co-regulations of multiple departments for hazardous waste treatment are proposed. This study proposes a new indicator for assessing the ecosystem service losses within the LCA of hazardous waste treatment and offers the government and the public a quantification of the ecological costs associated with hazardous waste treatment, provides the basis of lifecycle environmental impacts after product decommissioning for trade negotiations, and makes inventory data available for hazardous waste treatment processes during the whole lifecycle.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11459,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Indicators","volume":"173 ","pages":"Article 113401"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143726181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing the three-dimensional vegetation carbon sink of urban green spaces using unmanned aerial vehicles and machine learning","authors":"Wei Wei ,&nbsp;Junqiao Li","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113380","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113380","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As cities pursue decarbonization and carbon neutrality, urban green spaces play a crucial role as primary carbon sinks, warranting comprehensive quantitative assessments. This study compares traditional two-dimensional green space indicators, such as green space area and GCR, with advanced three-dimensional metrics, including 3DGV and 3DOR, as well as commonly used remote sensing indices like NDVI and NPP, for evaluating the carbon sink potential of urban green spaces. By integrating vegetation allometric growth equations, this paper introduces a novel methodology for assessing the carbon sink function of urban green spaces using UAV-based modeling and machine learning techniques for feature recognition. The results show that three-dimensional metrics provide a more accurate representation of the carbon sink capacity of urban green spaces, while traditional two-dimensional indicators fail to capture the spatial and functional variations effectively. This research contributes to the development of more robust ecological indicators for urban carbon management and highlights the role of innovative technologies, such as AI, in advancing environmental monitoring and management practices. The findings underscore the importance of multi-dimensional approaches in ecological assessment, demonstrating their potential to inform policy and management strategies for sustainable urban development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11459,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Indicators","volume":"173 ","pages":"Article 113380"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143726178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Environmental DNA surveys can determine in-stream dominance of non-native brook charr Salvelinus fontinalis over native brown trout Salmo trutta","authors":"Andreas Broman ,&nbsp;William F. Englund ,&nbsp;Niclas Gyllenstrand ,&nbsp;Joacim Näslund","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113407","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113407","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>For effective management of established potentially invasive species it is important to find management target sites (e.g. for depletion or eradication measures). In Sweden, the brook charr is non-native and competes with the native brown trout. Hence, finding methods allowing for rapid screening for potential problem areas is important. Wading electrofishing is the main method used, but eDNA surveys have the potential to replace the former method. Here we evaluate the usage of quantitative single-species eDNA analyses to find sites where brook charr dominates over brown trout. Using the ratio of the estimated relative amount of eDNA for each species, we correctly detect the vast majority of the areas where brook charr is dominating brown trout in the electrofishing results (&gt; 50 % of total abundance or biomass). Surveys using eDNA also have a higher chance to detect brook charr than electrofishing. We also show that quantitative comparisons between eDNA and electrofishing can be interpreted in very different ways depending on handling of outliers and inclusion/exclusion of sites without either catch or eDNA detections of a species in the analyses. Overall, however, even if relationships between catch results and eDNA results are found to be significantly positive under certain assumptions, the ability of eDNA results to predict electrofishing catches at the site level is associated with substantial uncertainties, at the scale of an order of magnitude. No environmental factors were found to clearly affect eDNA concentrations. In conclusion, eDNA is a promising tool to be used for cost-efficient screening of streams where brook charr is a potential ecological problem, but electrofishing still has a strong methodological position for follow-up studies quantifying their actual abundance. The two methods are complementary and one should not completely replace the other.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11459,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Indicators","volume":"173 ","pages":"Article 113407"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143726180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Debris flows dynamic risk assessment and interpretable Shapley method-based driving mechanisms exploring – A case study of the upper reach of the Min River","authors":"Yufeng He ,&nbsp;Mingtao Ding ,&nbsp;Yu Duan ,&nbsp;Hao Zheng ,&nbsp;Wen He ,&nbsp;Jun Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113400","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113400","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Debris flow is one of the most devastating natural hazards. Identifying the dynamic changes and driving factors of debris flow risk can enhance hazard mitigation and prevention. It is not clear what factors can mostly lead to debris flow risk change in mountainous areas, particularly some of these areas in the context of intense earthquakes, rapid urbanization, and climate change. To address these questions, an ensemble learning model was constructed to estimate the debris flow risk of the baseline period (2000) and the current period (2020) in the upper reach of the Min River. The study found that the areas with extremely high debris flow risk decreased by 18.57%, while the areas with moderate and high risk levels increased by 8% and 14% respectively. With this trend of overall risk increasing, the population and buildings affected by extremely high debris flow risk have increased by 20% and 30% respectively. Based on the interpretable learning model of SHAP (The Shapley Additive Explanations value), the mechanisms by driven factors that lead to changes in risk were explored. Population, elevation and NDVI are the most influential factors leading to changes in risk. Specifically, the increase in risk in the low elevation area is due to the rapid urbanization caused by the increase of population and GDP. While the risk change in higher elevation areas contributes to the variation of vegetation and precipitation. These findings have implications for debris flow mitigation and contribute to the understanding of the multiple factors that impact debris flow risk.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11459,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Indicators","volume":"173 ","pages":"Article 113400"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143726287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"New indicator species for associations within mesotrophic oak-hornbeam forests in Poland","authors":"Grzegorz J. Wolski ,&nbsp;Zbigniew Celka ,&nbsp;Jolanta Marciniuk ,&nbsp;Paweł Marciniuk ,&nbsp;Józef Mitka ,&nbsp;Sławomir Nowak ,&nbsp;Renata Afranowicz-Cieślak ,&nbsp;Andrzej Kruk ,&nbsp;Andrzej Łysko ,&nbsp;Agnieszka Popiela","doi":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113339","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113339","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The following oak-hornbeam plant associations have been described from Poland: <em>Tilio</em>-<em>Carpinetum</em> (TC), <em>Galio-Carpinetum</em> (GC) and <em>Stellario</em>-<em>Carpinetum</em> (SC). Our findings indicate that all are distinguished by a relatively high percentage of common forest species, particularly the first two. The study is the first to identify the following species as indicator species, based on SOM analysis and IndVal index: e.g. <em>Brachythecium velutinum</em>, <em>Cirriphyllum piliferum</em>, <em>Lepidozia reptans</em>, <em>Mnium hornum</em>, <em>Plagiomnium undulatum</em> and <em>Brachypodium sylvaticum</em> for SC; <em>Ajuga reptans</em>, <em>Dryopteris filix-mas</em>, <em>Equisetum pratense</em>, <em>Frangula alnus</em>, <em>Galium odoratum</em>, <em>Hepatica nobilis</em>, <em>Luzula pilosa</em>, <em>Maianthemum bifolium</em>, <em>Milium effusum</em>, <em>Plagiomnium affine</em>, <em>Pulmonaria obscura</em> for TC, and <em>Asarum europaeum</em>, <em>Anemone ranunculoides</em>, <em>Corylus avellana</em>, <em>Galeobdolon luteum</em>, <em>Geum urbanum</em>, <em>Mercurialis perennis</em>, <em>Stellaria holostea</em> and <em>Ulmus laevis</em> for GC. However, for <em>Stellario-Carpinetum</em>, our findings indicate a large pool of bryophytes that have never been considered as bioindicators. Additionally, our research indicates that while the main species composition gradient of broad-leaved forests is related to soil moisture, temperature also plays a significant role in creating a <em>Stellario-Carpinetum</em> – <em>Tilio</em>-<em>Carpinetum</em> gradient. The current status of oak-hornbeam forests in Poland is intriguing; our research indicates that supplementing vascular plants with bryophytes in research could change the traditional syntaxonomy of oak-hornbeam forests in Central Europe.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11459,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Indicators","volume":"173 ","pages":"Article 113339"},"PeriodicalIF":7.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143726289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}