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DOI	10.3390/d16040252
	Associations between Epiphytic Orchids and Their Hosts and Future Perspectives of These in the Context of Global Warming
	Timsina, Binu; Muenzbergova, Zuzana; Kindlmann, Pavel; Bhattarai, Bishnu Prasad; Shrestha, Bikram; Raskoti, Bhakta B.; Rokaya, Maan B.
发表日期	2024
EISSN	1424-2818
起始页码	16
结束页码	4
卷号	16 期号:4
英文摘要	Epiphytic species are ecologically important and a significant component of biodiversity. To ensure their efficient conservation, we need to understand their ecology and host plant associations. It is also important to investigate how the predicted temperature change will affect their future distribution. Here, we use data collected in Nepal to investigate how epiphytic orchids are associated with host species, their distribution patterns, and how they may be threatened by the predicted increase in temperature towards the end of the 21st century. We used the phi coefficient (Phi) of association to calculate the associations of epiphytic orchid species with plants and rarefaction to describe the diversity of orchids associated with a particular host species. We used interpolation to estimate the distribution of epiphytic orchids and their host species along altitudinal gradients. The phi (Phi) coefficient of association revealed that 30 species of host plants showed more association with different orchid species than expected. The number of epiphytic orchids increased with the number of host individuals. We predict that an increase in temperature by similar to 3 degrees C, which is a more moderate value of temperature increase by the end of the 21st century, will affect at least 52 narrow-ranged species of orchids and 58 narrow-ranged species of host plants. Therefore, we should make efforts to prevent many plant species from becoming extinct, as an increase in temperature is likely to affect their existence.
英文关键词	climate change; epiphyte; Himalayas; host; phi coefficient; rarefaction
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Biodiversity & Conservation ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
WOS类目	Biodiversity Conservation ; Ecology
WOS记录号	WOS:001211335300001
来源期刊	DIVERSITY-BASEL
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/298318
作者单位	Czech Academy of Sciences; Global Change Research Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences; Czech Academy of Sciences; Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences; Charles University Prague; Charles University Prague; Tribhuvan University; Institute of Science & Technology (IoST) - Nepal
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Timsina, Binu,Muenzbergova, Zuzana,Kindlmann, Pavel,et al. Associations between Epiphytic Orchids and Their Hosts and Future Perspectives of These in the Context of Global Warming[J],2024,16(4).
APA	Timsina, Binu.,Muenzbergova, Zuzana.,Kindlmann, Pavel.,Bhattarai, Bishnu Prasad.,Shrestha, Bikram.,...&Rokaya, Maan B..(2024).Associations between Epiphytic Orchids and Their Hosts and Future Perspectives of These in the Context of Global Warming.DIVERSITY-BASEL,16(4).
MLA	Timsina, Binu,et al."Associations between Epiphytic Orchids and Their Hosts and Future Perspectives of These in the Context of Global Warming".DIVERSITY-BASEL 16.4(2024).