Influence of Slope Aspect on Plant Community Composition and its Implications for Restoration of a Chinese Mountain Range
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| 作者 | Qin Yanyan1,2,3; Holden, Nicholas4; Feng Qi1; Zhu Meng1,3 |
| 刊名 | POLISH JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
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| 出版日期 | 2017 |
| 卷号 | 26期号:1页码:375-383 |
| 关键词 | degradation dominant species ecological restoration Qilian Mountains |
| ISSN号 | 1230-1485 |
| DOI | 10.15244/pjoes/64458 |
| 通讯作者 | Feng Qi(qifeng@lzb.ac.cn) |
| 英文摘要 | Excessive human disturbance (e.g., overgrazing, deforestation) has degraded the environment in the Qilian Mountains in China. Vegetative restoration is likely to be a crucial tool to restore these biologically significant habitats, but it is impossible to achieve this goal if the baseline plant community composition and its variation with local environmental conditions were not understood fully. To assess plant community composition by slope aspect, four different aspects south-facing slope (SF), southwest-facing slope (SW), northwest-facing slope (NW), and north-facing slope (NF) were surveyed on three almost non-degraded mountains. The results showed that each slope aspect has different abiotic environments. From SF to NF, soil water content has an increasing trend, but it shows no difference between SF and SW; and daily soil temperature and pH have a decreasing trend, while the former shows no difference between SF and SW, and SW and NW; and the latter shows no difference between SW and NW; and soil organic carbon was significantly increased, but soil bulk density was significantly decreased. Herbaceous plants were dominant on SF, SW, and NW, and trees (Picea crassifolia) were dominant on NE From SF to NW, the dominant herbaceous plants were Agropyron cristatum and Stipa grandis, Agropyron cristatum and Carex aridula, and Kobresia humilis and Carex crebra, respectively, while on NF they were Carex spp. and Polygonum macrophyllum. The baseline survey points to the need to consider underlying patterns in abiotic conditions when planning restoration programs in these degraded mountain habitats, and to select native plants similar to the original vegetation. The survey provides a vital milestone for the development of policy-based funding initiatives and for ongoing vegetation monitoring during restoration to assess if these vegetative targets have been met. |
| 收录类别 | SCI ; SSCI |
| WOS关键词 | VEGETATION-RECOVERY ; QILIAN MOUNTAINS ; RIVER-BASIN ; DESERT ECOSYSTEM ; TIBETAN PLATEAU ; ALPINE MEADOW ; NATIVE PLANTS ; LAND-USE ; SOIL ; FOREST |
| WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology |
| WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000394830000040 |
| 出版者 | HARD |
| URI标识 | http://www.irgrid.ac.cn/handle/1471x/2557602 |
| 专题 | 寒区旱区环境与工程研究所 |
| 通讯作者 | Feng Qi |
| 作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Ecohydrol Inland River Basin, Alashan Desert Ecohydrol Res Stn, Northwest Inst Ecoenvironm & Resources, Lanzhou 730000, Peoples R China 2.Bai Long Jiang Forestry Management Bur, Res Inst Forestry Sci, Lanzhou, Peoples R China 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China 4.Univ Coll Dublin, UCD Sch Biosyst Engn, Agr & Food Sci Ctr, Dublin 4, Ireland |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Qin Yanyan,Holden, Nicholas,Feng Qi,et al. Influence of Slope Aspect on Plant Community Composition and its Implications for Restoration of a Chinese Mountain Range[J]. POLISH JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES,2017,26(1):375-383. |
| APA | Qin Yanyan,Holden, Nicholas,Feng Qi,&Zhu Meng.(2017).Influence of Slope Aspect on Plant Community Composition and its Implications for Restoration of a Chinese Mountain Range.POLISH JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES,26(1),375-383. |
| MLA | Qin Yanyan,et al."Influence of Slope Aspect on Plant Community Composition and its Implications for Restoration of a Chinese Mountain Range".POLISH JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 26.1(2017):375-383. |
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