Soil control over the distribution of Mediterranean oak forests in the Montsec mountains (northeastern Spain)

Olarieta, José Ramón; Bargués‐Tobella, Aida; Rodríguez‐Ochoa, Rafael; Antúnez, Montserrat

doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2016.12.019

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“…El mejor crecimiento en suelos con alta proporción de elementos gruesos en el horizonte superficial (Modelo 3, Tabla 3) contrasta con los resultados obtenidos por Gandullo y Sánchez (1994), que sugieren que esta especie prefiere suelos poco pedregosos. Este efecto positivo de los elementos gruesos también se ha demostrado para la presencia y crecimiento de otras especies, como Q. ilex (Rodríguez-Ochoa et al 2014;Olarieta et al 2017) y P. radiata (Olarieta et al 2006), y, junto con el producido por la arena (Modelo 2, Tabla 3), apuntaría a dos cuestiones. Por un lado, el crecimiento del pino laricio podría aumentar con la porosidad de aireación del horizonte superficial del suelo, que tiende a aumentar, a su vez, cuanto ma-Figura 5.…”

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Soils and Pinus nigra ssp. salzmanii plantations in La Rioja (Spain)

Rodríguez‐Ochoa

Alonso

Olarieta

2018

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Soils and Pinus nigra ssp. salzmanii plantations in La Rioja (Spain)

Rodríguez‐Ochoa

Alonso

Olarieta

2018

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“…pH was particularly relevant in LUs with Quercus species, where the sign of the pH effect matched the specific soil requirements of the main Quercus species in the LU (Table 4). While Quercus ilex and Quercus faginea require soils with a pH range of 4.5-8.5, the presence of secondary species like Acer monspessulanum has been linked to higher pH in NE Spain [80]. Quercus suber, on the contrary, generally occur in soils developed from siliceous substrates [81].…”

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Stand Structure and Local Landscape Variables Are the Dominant Factors Explaining Shrub and Tree Diversity in Mediterranean Forests

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Plant diversity is a core value of forests and is rapidly becoming a primary management goal under the threat of global environmental changes. Changing conditions, including forestry interventions, or lack of them, may endanger its preservation. Abandonment of management in forests previously subjected to a multipurpose silviculture and secondary succession is hypothesized to have altered the biodiverse Mediterranean forests in recent years and affected plant diversity. We used data in national forest inventory plots and local landscape ecology metrics from forest cartography, combined with artificial neural networks, to predict richness and Shannon diversity indices for the tree and shrub layers of several Mediterranean forest types. We found that richness and diversity depend on forest structure and on local landscape patterns, and also, though to a lesser degree, on site conditions (mainly soil pH), but not on forest intervention. In order to benefit plant diversity in the forest landscapes analyzed, forest management practices need to promote diameter variety, the presence of large trees, tree cover, variation in the height of trees and shrubs, and a heterogeneous local landscape at the stand level. Aleppo pine forests and Scots pine forests showed more consistent results in their models than cork oak and black pine forests, both of which require further research.

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“…Total water storage (TWS) in global forest ecosystems is estimated to be 22,662.47 km 3 (14,984.15-37,411.59 km 3 ) based on the integrated water-storage capacity method (Fig. 2a; Supplementary Fig.…”

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“…This water accounts for ~10% of all freshwater available to humans and ecosystems (200,000 km 3 ) 17 . In the longitudinal direction, the distribution of TWS has three peaks corresponding to the Amazon Plain (255.10 km 3 between 52°W and 78°W), Congo Basin (192.70 km 3 between 14°E and 28°E), and Malaysia (175.24 km 3 between 101°E and 114°E). In the latitudinal direction, the distribution has two peaks: one at high latitude (319.63 km 3 between 47°N and 65°N) and one crossing the equator (591.15 km 3 between 9°N and 14°S; Fig.…”

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Global water retention in forest canopy, litter, and soil layers and its controlling factors

Liu

Shi

Tao

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Forest ecosystems play a vital role in the earth’s hydrological process, and precipitation intercepted by forests accounts for more than a quarter of the water in the terrestrial hydrologic cycle. However, water retention in the three layers (canopy, litter, and soil) of forest ecosystems has not yet been thoroughly investigated on a global scale. Here, we investigate the global pattern of forest water retention capacity (WRC) and its controlling environmental factors based on 982 observations of 21 controlling factors in the three forest layers, mainly from 1990 to 2018. The results show that global WRC varies among the different forest types and climatic zones with a mean of 456.71 mm, while the average total water storage is 22,662.47 km3 in forest ecosystems. Climatic variables are the leading factors contributing to the variations in forest WRC, followed by forest structure factors, soil properties, terrain factors, and litter factors. This study advances our understanding of the mechanisms underlying large-scale variations in forest WRC in different climate zones and forest types. The findings demonstrate that controlling factors should be considered when developing policy for regions with important ecological functions. They also provide a benchmark to improve ecohydrological models for simulating global WRC.

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Soil control over the distribution of Mediterranean oak forests in the Montsec mountains (northeastern Spain)

Cited by 5 publications

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Soils and Pinus nigra ssp. salzmanii plantations in La Rioja (Spain)

Soils and Pinus nigra ssp. salzmanii plantations in La Rioja (Spain)

Stand Structure and Local Landscape Variables Are the Dominant Factors Explaining Shrub and Tree Diversity in Mediterranean Forests

Global water retention in forest canopy, litter, and soil layers and its controlling factors

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