DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.08.024
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84984645430
论文题名: Interactions between plant traits and environmental factors within and among montane forest belts: A study of vascular species colonising decaying logs
作者: Chmura D. ; Żarnowiec J. ; Staniaszek-Kik M.
刊名: Forest Ecology and Management
ISSN: 0378-1127
出版年: 2016
卷: 379 起始页码: 216
结束页码: 225
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Coarse woody debris
; Fourth-corner analysis
; Life history traits
; Montane vegetation
; RLQ
Scopus关键词: Debris
; Plants (botany)
; Seed
; Vegetation
; Coarse woody debris
; Environmental factors
; Environmental variables
; Forest community
; Fourth corner analysis
; Life-history traits
; Number of species
; Vascular plant species
; Forestry
; abundance
; altitudinal zonation
; coarse woody debris
; colonization
; deciduous forest
; environmental factor
; greenbelt
; herb
; life history trait
; montane forest
; numerical model
; ordination
; shrub
; vascular plant
; vegetation cover
; Poland [Central Europe]
; Sudetes
; Fagus
; Picea
; Tracheophyta
英文摘要: We were interested in which biological attributes and environmental variables enhance the colonisation of vascular plant species on coarse woody debris (CWD) within and among forest communities along lower and upper montane forest belts. The study was carried out in the Sudeten Mts (south-western Poland). A total of 364 decaying logs were studied in terms of their characteristics and the cover of vascular plants colonising them. The three-table ordination analysis (RLQ) revealed that 9 plant traits and 11 environmental variables demonstrated significant associations. Decaying logs were colonised by 46 species, which can be classified into six clusters. The clusters differed in distribution and abundance along the lower-upper montane forest gradient. Annual and autochorous plants as well as herb perennials tended to colonise CWD in the lower montane belt, mainly in beech forests whereas tree seedlings, dwarf shrubs and graminoids prevailed on logs in the upper montane belt – in spruce forests. The localisation and site conditions of logs seemed to be a more important factor than the characteristics of CWD itself. There is a relatively low number of species that are frequently involved in the process of colonisation; however, it can be inferred that they differ in their response to the characteristics of dead wood especially the decomposition stage and the size of a log. Nevertheless, compositional and abundance changes in the vegetation that occurred along the altitudinal gradient played the most crucial role. © 2016 Elsevier B.V. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/64750
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作者单位: Institute of Environmental Protection and Engineering, University of Bielsko-Biala, ul. Willowa 2, Bielsko-Biała, Poland; Department of Geobotany and Plant Ecology, University of Łódź, ul. Banacha 12/16, Łódź, Poland
Recommended Citation:
Chmura D.,Żarnowiec J.,Staniaszek-Kik M.. Interactions between plant traits and environmental factors within and among montane forest belts: A study of vascular species colonising decaying logs[J]. Forest Ecology and Management,2016-01-01,379