Soil properties and light availability determine species richness and vegetation diversity in an overgrown coppice oak stand

• Autorzy: Szymura T.H. , Szymura M.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Coppicing is uncommon in Poland; however, some remnants of a previously coppiced oak forest persist in the foothills of the Sudety Mountains (southern Poland). Some of these forests are considered as a kind of thermophilous oak forest, classified as habitat 91I0 in the European programme Natura 2000. As an example of previously coppiced sessile oak (Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.) forest in Poland, the vegetation and environmental factors in the “Wąwoz Lipa” reserve (area 101 ha, altitude ca. 400 m a.s.l.) were surveyed. Canonical correspondence analysis showed a basic compositional gradient of vegetation related to the content of coarse fragments in the soil, light availability and soil pH. The number of species per plot was not correlated with any particular environmental variable; in general, the plant species number and cover decreased in the most exposed sites, where the heat load was highest. We hypothesize that the higher number of species in some plots was the results of an edge effect: this occurred in transitional zones between the most exposed sites, which work as refuges for light-demanding, drought-tolerant species, and less exposed sites, with vegetation typical of acidophilous oak forests. The land relief also allowed the spread of species typical of mesophilous forests, which found refuge in the shaded, wet gorges. Thus, the specific land relief, along with previous coppice management, allowed the coexistence, probably temporally, of species of plants considered typical of different habitats.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

acid soil; acidophilous oak forest; biodiversity; coppice; edge effect; environment condition; heat load; light availability; oak stand; overgrown coppice oak; soil property; species richness; thermophilous oak forest; vegetation diversity

• Wydawca: -
• Czasopismo: Polish Journal of Ecology
• Rocznik: 2011
• Tom: 59
• Numer: 3
• Opis fizyczny: p.523-533,fig.,ref.

Twórcy

autor

Szymura T.H.

• Ecological Station, Institute of Plant Biology, Wroclaw University, Maksa Borna square 9, 50–328 Wroclaw, Poland

autor

Szymura M.

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