Habitat degradation, topography and rainfall variability interact to determine seed distribution and recruitment in a sand dune grassland
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| 作者 | Li Feng-Rui; Zhao Li-Ya; Zhang Hua; Liu Ji-Liang; Lu Hai-Yan; Kang Ling-Fen |
| 刊名 | JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE
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| 出版日期 | 2009-10-01 |
| 卷号 | 20期号:5页码:847-859 |
| 关键词 | Habitat heterogeneity Path analysis Rainfall availability Sand dune systems Seed bank formation Seedling recruitment Spatial variation Topography effects |
| ISSN号 | 1100-9233 |
| 通讯作者 | Li Feng-Rui(lifengrui@lzb.ac.cn) |
| 英文摘要 | Question: Understanding the mechanisms underlying how habitat degradation, topography and rainfall variability interactively affect seed distribution and seedling recruitment is crucial for explaining plant Community patterns and dynamics. Interactions between these major factors were studied together in a semiarid sand dune grassland. Location: Eastern Inner Mongolia, China. Methods: The Study system used four sites of fixed, semifixed, semishifting and shifting sand dune grasslands, representing a gradient of habitat degradation. We investigated the density of germinable seeds deposited in the top 5 cm of soil and in situ seedling emergence (number of seedlings emerging early in the growing season) and establishment (number of plants recruited at the end of the growing season) at three topographic positions (dune top, windward and leeward sides) within each site over 2 years that differed in rainfall. Habitat characteristics (i.e. vegetation cover, plant species composition and diversity, soil moisture and nutrient availability and soil erodibility) of the four sites were also measured. Results: Habitat degradation (i.e. decreased vegetation cover and enhanced wind erosion rate) significantly reduced the size of the germinable soil seed bank. On average, germinable seed number from the high-vegetation cover fixed dune was 36-fold larger than the low-vegetation cover shifting dune, and eight- and two-fold larger, respectively, than the semishifting and semifixed dunes with intermediate vegetation cover. We observed within-habitat variability in seed distribution, but among-topographic position variation differed among habitats. Seedling recruitment showed large between-year, and among- and within-habitat variability, but these variations varied significantly depending on the response variables evaluated (i.e. initial seedling density, final plant density, emergence rate and recruitment rate). Path analysis revealed complex density-dependent positive and negative, direct and indirect effects of germinable seed density and initial seedling density on recruitment, but the relative importance of these density-dependent effects varied depending on habitat type and rainfall availability. Conclusion: Our results suggest that habitat degradation, microtopography and rainfall availability interact in shaping sand dune seed bank and plant community recruitment patterns and dynamics. Their effects were mainly mediated through changes in both the biotic and abiotic environment during the process of habitat deterioration. |
| 收录类别 | SCI |
| WOS关键词 | ANNUAL PLANT COMMUNITY ; NORTHEASTERN INNER-MONGOLIA ; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATION ; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY ; SEMIARID ENVIRONMENT ; SMALL MAMMALS ; VEGETATION ; DESERT ; BANK ; PATTERNS |
| WOS研究方向 | Plant Sciences ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Forestry |
| WOS类目 | Plant Sciences ; Ecology ; Forestry |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000270031300007 |
| 出版者 | WILEY-BLACKWELL |
| URI标识 | http://www.irgrid.ac.cn/handle/1471x/2556205 |
| 专题 | 寒区旱区环境与工程研究所 |
| 通讯作者 | Li Feng-Rui |
| 作者单位 | Chinese Acad Sci, Cold & Arid Reg Environm & Engn Res Inst, Lanzhou 730000, Peoples R China |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Li Feng-Rui,Zhao Li-Ya,Zhang Hua,et al. Habitat degradation, topography and rainfall variability interact to determine seed distribution and recruitment in a sand dune grassland[J]. JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE,2009,20(5):847-859. |
| APA | Li Feng-Rui,Zhao Li-Ya,Zhang Hua,Liu Ji-Liang,Lu Hai-Yan,&Kang Ling-Fen.(2009).Habitat degradation, topography and rainfall variability interact to determine seed distribution and recruitment in a sand dune grassland.JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE,20(5),847-859. |
| MLA | Li Feng-Rui,et al."Habitat degradation, topography and rainfall variability interact to determine seed distribution and recruitment in a sand dune grassland".JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE 20.5(2009):847-859. |
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