Early dynamics of natural revegetation on roadcuts of the Salamanca province (CW Spain)

Martín-Sanz, Ruth C.; Santos, Belén Fernández; Martínez-Ruiz, Carolina

doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2014.11.057

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“…Sin embargo, la repoblación de minas con especies exóticas es inminente en esta región (Ayala et al 2008), desconociendo sus efectos sobre la sucesión natural (Murcia y Guariguata 2014). A pesar de ello, algunos investigadores sugieren que la calidad de sitio (Martínez-Ramos y García-Orth 2007), el tipo de plantas y el clima (Alday et al 2010); la fertilidad del suelo y el banco semillas (DeFalco et al 2012), así como también, la edad y la distancia del área afectada respecto a la matriz de vegetación remanente (Martín-Sanz et al 2015), son factores que explican la regeneración natural de zonas donde la sucesión primaria es el punto de partida. Además, el éxito de un programa de restauración ecológica depende de las particularidades biofísicas de cada región.…”

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Vulnerabilidad de los bosques naturales en el Chocó biogeográfico colombiano: actividad minera y conservación de la biodiversidad

Valois-Cuesta

Martínez-Ruiz

2016

Bosque (Valdivia)

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Vulnerabilidad de los bosques naturales en el Chocó biogeográfico colombiano: actividad minera y conservación de la biodiversidad

Valois-Cuesta

Martínez-Ruiz

2016

Bosque (Valdivia)

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“…In addition, success in the colonizing species establishment greatly depends on good germination and the pre-reproductive mortality [61] that, at the same time, is strongly conditioned by abiotic factor variability [62]. Therefore, it is possible that the species that are active colonizers of the mines have broad niches, due to their tolerance to different light regimes and because they occupy disturbed habitats with variable and changing environments [63,64].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Effect of the Forest-Mine Boundary Form on Woody Colonization and Forest Expansion in Degraded Ecosystems

Martínez-Ruiz

Milder

López-Marcos

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Forests

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We evaluated the ecological significance of the boundary form between two patches with contrasting vegetation (mine grassland and adjacent forest) on woody colonization and forest expansion in open-cast coal mines in Northern Spain. Woody colonization and browsing traces were measured on three mine sites, along 24 transects that were laid out perpendicular to the forest-mine boundary and classified according to their shape (concave, convex, straight). Mine sites were colonized from the close forest by woody species, whose colonization intensity depends on the boundary form. The overall colonization intensity decreased with increasing distance to the forest and differed depending on the boundary form. The more intense colonization was found in concave boundaries and the strongest decrease in convex boundaries close to the forest, whereas straight boundaries showed an intermediate colonization pattern. Concave boundaries reached higher woody cover in the basal strata of the mines than convex (up to 2 m) or straight boundaries (up to 1 m) from 11 m to the forest edge, mainly by the presence of dense patches of Cytisus scoparius (L.) Link, with a scattered overstory of Genista florida L. These shrubs might reduce the browsing intensity and act as nurse plants facilitating the establishment of Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl. in mine areas at greater distances from the forest edge. The forest-mine boundary form does not affect the forest vertical structure that is homogenous and does not help explain the woody colonization pattern in the mines. We conclude that edge characteristics have a strong potential to be used in the restoration of native forests based on natural processes. The implications of our results for sessile oak (Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.) forest expansion along edges in fragmented Mediterranean forest landscapes were discussed.

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“…These early stages are associated with species that can be dispersed at greater distances and with a greater frequency of wind-dispersed species [ 112 , 113 ]. Subsequently, in the late succession stages, seed dispersal is done by animals [ 114 ]. However, there is no total consensus on the dispersal traits in plant succession [ 15 , 115 ].…”

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“…Indicates the balance between rapid biomass production and efficient nutrient conservation [110] Dispersal traits Evaluates the stabilization of plants after a secondary succession [112][113][114][115][116][117][118][119] C, N, SOC, TOC Analyzes the presence of these organic components in secondary succession soils [61, Enzyme activity of the soil microbiota [6,141,142]…”

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Impacts of Land-Use Changes on Vegetation and Ecosystem Functioning: Old-Field Secondary Succession

Pérez-Hernández

Gavilán

2021

Plants

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The study of ecological succession to determine how plant communities re-assemble after a natural or anthropogenic disturbance has always been an important topic in ecology. The understanding of these processes forms part of the new theories of community assembly and species coexistence, and is attracting attention in a context of expanding human impacts. Specifically, new successional studies provide answers to different mechanisms of community assemblage, and aim to define the importance of deterministic or stochastic processes in the succession dynamic. Biotic limits, which depend directly on biodiversity (i.e., species competition), and abiotic filtering, which depends on the environment, become particularly important when they are exceeded, making the succession process more complicated to reach the previous disturbance stage. Plant functional traits (PFTs) are used in secondary succession studies to establish differences between abandonment stages or to compare types of vegetation or flora, and are more closely related to the functioning of plant communities. Dispersal limitation is a PFT considered an important process from a stochastic point of view because it is related to the establishing of plants. Related to it the soil seed bank plays an important role in secondary succession because it is essential for ecosystem functioning. Soil compounds and microbial community are important variables to take into account when studying any succession stage. Chronosequence is the best way to study the whole process at different time scales. Finally, our objective in this review is to show how past studies and new insights are being incorporated into the basis of classic succession. To further explore this subject we have chosen old-field recovery as an example of how a number of different plant communities, including annual and perennial grasslands and shrublands, play an important role in secondary succession.

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Early dynamics of natural revegetation on roadcuts of the Salamanca province (CW Spain)

Cited by 38 publications

References 34 publications

Vulnerabilidad de los bosques naturales en el Chocó biogeográfico colombiano: actividad minera y conservación de la biodiversidad

Vulnerabilidad de los bosques naturales en el Chocó biogeográfico colombiano: actividad minera y conservación de la biodiversidad

Effect of the Forest-Mine Boundary Form on Woody Colonization and Forest Expansion in Degraded Ecosystems

Impacts of Land-Use Changes on Vegetation and Ecosystem Functioning: Old-Field Secondary Succession

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