Soils and Conifer Forest Productivity on Serpentinized Peridotite of the Trinity Ophiolite, California

Alexander, Earl B.; Adamson, C.; Zinke, Paul J.; Graham, Richard C.

doi:10.1097/00010694-198912000-00003

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“…Reports of metal toxicity in plants grown on serpentine soils or in soil solutions that approximate these soils' elemental concentrations are generally for herbaceous serpentine species (Nagy and Proctor 1997), non-serpentine ecotypes of herbaceous species (Proctor 1971;Woodell et al 1975), or agricultural crop plants (Hunter and Vergnano 1952;Halstead 1968;Anderson et al 1973). Studies of woody vegetation growing on serpentine soils that addressed both Ca/Mg and heavy metal hypotheses of serpentine infertility have found significant positive relationships between growth or cover of woody species and soil (Alexander et al 1989) or foliar (Koenigs et al 1982) Ca or Ca:Mg and not heavy metals. showed that the principal difference between serpentine and non-serpentine congeners of woody shrubs growing on a metalliferous California serpentine soil was in their ability to take up and translocate Ca to foliage and not their heavy metal resistance (serpentine and non-serpentine congeners equally sequestered heavy metals in roots).…”

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“…Many bodenvag species have serpentine edaphic ecotypes that perform better on serpentine soils than nonserpentine ecotypes (Kruckeberg 1951;O'Dell and Claassen 2006;O'Dell and Rajakaruna 2011). Different species growing together on the same soils often have different foliar elemental concentrations, indicating different nutrient selectivities (Lyon et al 1971;Johnston and Proctor 1977;Koenigs et al 1982;Alexander et al 1989;Pope et al 2010). Different chemical elements may limit different species on serpentine, resulting in species-specific responses to substrate amendments (e.g., Koide and Mooney 1987;Huenneke et al 1990;Nagy and Proctor 1997).…”

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Species specific plant-soil interactions influence plant distribution on serpentine soils

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Where serpentine soils exist, variation in soil properties affects plant species distribution at both coarse and fine spatial scales. The New Idria (California, USA) serpentine mass has barren areas, supporting only sparse shrub and tree islands, adjacent to areas of densely-vegetated serpentine chaparral. To identify factors limiting growth on barren relative to vegetated serpentine soils, we analyzed soils from barren, shrub-island within barren, and vegetated areas and foliage from shrubisland and vegetated areas. We also grew Ceanothus cuneatus (native evergreen shrub), Achillea millefolium (native perennial forb), and Bromus madritensis ssp. rubens (invasive annual grass) in soils from barren and vegetated areas amended factorially with N, K, and Ca in a pot study. In well-watered pots, biomass was greater by 5-, 14-, and 33-fold for Ceanothus, Achillea, and Bromus, respectively, on vegetated-area-collected soils than on barren-collected soils, indicating a strong soil chemistry effect. Although field soil data suggested nutrient deficiency and not heavy metal toxicity, pot study plant data indicated otherwise for two of the three species. On barren-collected soils, only Ceanothus responded positively to added N and Ca and did not show greater foliar Mg or heavy metal (Fe, Ni, Cr, Co, Zn) concentrations than on vegetated-area-collected soils. Ceanothus maintained lower root Mg and heavy metal (Fe, Ni, Cr, Co) concentrations on barren soils and translocated less heavy metal (Fe, Ni, Cr, Co, Mn, Cu) from roots to foliage than Achillea and Bromus. Achillea and Bromus showed significant log-log biomass relationships with foliar Ca:Mg (+), Mg (-), and heavy metals (Fe, Ni, Cr, Co, Mn, Cu, Zn) (-), while Ceanothus showed relationships only with Ca: Mg (+) and Mg (-). The New Idria barren-vegetated pattern appears to be maintained by different factors for different species or functional types-low Ca:Mg ratios on barrens for all species tested, high heavy metal concentrations for Achillea and Bromus, and low macronutrient (N) concentrations for Ceanothus. Combined data from this and other studies suggest high heavy metal concentrations more strongly affect Plant Soil (2011) herbaceous than woody species, contributing to variation in species distribution on serpentine soils.

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“…It was estimated by SOM = 0.88 LOI -0.14 Fe d , where Fe d is the citrate-dithionite extractable iron. This equation is based on data from Alexander et al (1989) for LOI and for SOM by weighing carbon-dioxide produced by dry combustion; SOM was assumed to be twice the weight of organic carbon. Water retention at 1.5 MPa was ascertained by A&L Great Lakes Laboratories.…”

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Old Neogene summer-dry soils with ultramafic parent materials

Alexander

2010

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“…(3) Parent material as a geopedologic category makes it possible to differentiate lithic characteristics inherited by soil and their effect on chemical and physical properties. Chemical properties include supply of nutrients, namely calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, and potassium (Alexander et al, 1989), as well as salinity and sodicity (Dregne, 1976). Physical properties inherited from parent materials include erodibility, infiltration, water holding capacity, and shrinkeswell properties (Coulombe et al, 2000;McFadden and McAuliffe, 1997).…”

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Geomorphic-vegetation relationships using a geopedological classification system, northern Chihuahuan Desert, USA

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2013

Journal of Arid Environments

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a b s t r a c tDrylands typically have distinctive vegetative patterns that reflect the underlying physical landscape. We use a geopedological classification to organize the landscape into five categories from broad scale to fine scale: (1) physiographic divisions which describe regional topography, such as mountains and basin floors; (2) regolith type which identifies residuum versus transported sediments; (3) parent materials which describe mineralogy; (4) landforms which provide meso-scale descriptions of topography; and (5) soil texture, a fine-scale variable important for infiltration, erodibility, and available water holding capacity. The study was conducted in a 1753 km 2 area of the White Sands Missile Range and easternmost Jornada Experimental Range and revealed the following.(1) At the broadest scale, mesquite is dominant on the basin floor when the parent material is siliceous sand, but (2) biological soil crust becomes dominant in the basin floor when the parent material is gypseous. (3) Creosotebush is dominant on rocky soils of the piedmont slopes regardless of parent material, but (4) grasslands become dominant on the bajadas upslope in the semiarid zone and into the semiarid mountain uplands regardless of bedrock type. This method provides a way of supplementing ecologic-edaphic studies and provides a framework within which mechanisms can be explored.

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Soils and Conifer Forest Productivity on Serpentinized Peridotite of the Trinity Ophiolite, California

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Species specific plant-soil interactions influence plant distribution on serpentine soils

Species specific plant-soil interactions influence plant distribution on serpentine soils

Old Neogene summer-dry soils with ultramafic parent materials

Geomorphic-vegetation relationships using a geopedological classification system, northern Chihuahuan Desert, USA

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