| DOI: | 10.1016/j.foreco.2017.02.002
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| Scopus记录号: | 2-s2.0-85013167912
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| 论文题名: | Mediterranean coastal pine forest stands: Understorey distinctiveness or not? |
| 作者: | Bonari G.; Acosta A.T.R.; Angiolini C.
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| 刊名: | Forest Ecology and Management
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| ISSN: | 0378-1127
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| 出版年: | 2017
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| 卷: | 391 | | 起始页码: | 19
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| 结束页码: | 28
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 英文关键词: | Canopy cover
; Dunes
; Italy
; Plant species assemblage
; Sea-inland gradient
; Vegetation
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| Scopus关键词: | Bauxite mines
; Conservation
; Ecology
; Landforms
; Multivariant analysis
; Plants (botany)
; Reservoir management
; Vegetation
; Canopy cover
; Coastal pine forests
; Distribution patterns
; Dunes
; Italy
; Management strategies
; Multi variate analysis
; Plant species
; Forestry
; coastal zone
; coniferous forest
; coniferous tree
; forest canopy
; forest cover
; forest management
; inland sea
; plant community
; plantation forestry
; stand dynamics
; understory
; vegetation dynamics
; Italy
; Mediterranean Region
; Pinus pinea
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| 英文摘要: | A common perception of plantation forests is that they constitute an “ecological desert” and that is why they are often disdained by scholars. Distribution patterns of understorey assemblages of coastal pine stands on sand dunes are still little known, despite such forests being widespread along the Mediterranean coastline, particularly in Italy. The purpose of this study of 167 plots along Italian coastlines was to analyse whether similar communities and specific species pools occur in different pine forest types dominated by Pinus pinea, P. halepensis or P. pinaster. Multivariate analysis was used, including the effects of sea-inland gradient and of pine canopy cover. The results indicated that pine forests show the lack of a clear floristic differentiation among different pine forest types at community level. Nevertheless, psammophilous species of coastal dunes occurring mostly in P. halepensis stands, and forest species mainly being linked to P. pinea stands, indicated a distinctiveness at species level probably related to different pine ecology as well as to the coastal zonation along the sea-inland gradient, already well-known for non-forested dunes. Thus, the natural zonation of coastal vegetation is maintained, although higher pine canopy cover affected the understory species assemblages, both herbaceous and woody, in a negative way. In light of this, species-specific management strategies are not recommended for Mediterranean coastal pine forests, and a long-sighted management should take into account actions considering floristic differentiation linked to coastal vegetation zonation. These findings should not be disregarded since they have implications for management planning and conservation and because understoreys of Mediterranean pine plantations, with a species reservoir of unknown value, have often hitherto been overlooked. © 2017 Elsevier B.V. |
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| 资源类型: | 期刊论文
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/64410
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| Appears in Collections: | 影响、适应和脆弱性
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作者单位: | Dept. Life Sciences, University of Siena, Via Mattioli, 4, Siena, Italy; Dept. Sciences, University of Roma TRE, V.le Marconi 446, Roma, Italy
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Bonari G.,Acosta A.T.R.,Angiolini C.. Mediterranean coastal pine forest stands: Understorey distinctiveness or not?[J]. Forest Ecology and Management,2017-01-01,391
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