Succession in a South Swedish deciduous wood: A numerical approach

Persson, Stefan

doi:10.1007/bf00121023

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“…No unequivocal patterns emerge from other studies either (e.g. Persson 1980, Zobel et al 1993, Dzwonko & Gawronski 1994. However, since various indices to estimate beta-diversity and species turnover have been used it is difficult to compare the results of different studies (Vellend 2001).…”

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Herbaceous plant community structure of ancient and recent forests in two contrasting forest types

Verheyen

Bossuyt

Honnay

et al. 2003

Basic and Applied Ecology

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It has already been extensively documented that major floristic differences between ancient and recent temperate broad-leaved forests exist. Hence, the question raises whether the herb layer community structure and organization of ancient and recent forests also differs and whether these differences are the same in productive vs. unproductive forest types? Therefore, we selected 127 relevés situated in productive Alno-Padion forests and 69 relevés situated in less productive Quercion forests out of a larger data-set containing 640 relevés from northern Belgium. The plots differed with respect to land use history but it was assured that no covariation between land use history on the one hand, and soil texture, soil drainage and canopy composition on the other occurred. In both forest types, about 30% of the studied species exhibited an association with either ancient or recent forests. Persistent differences between ancient and recent forests in life-form spectra in general and in the number and abundance of geophytes in particular were found as well. Few changes in the community structure of productive Alno-Padion forests were observed after 70 years of recovery. Only in the youngest Alno-Padion forests (i.e. < 70 years) species numbers and total cover of the herb layer were lower and co-occurrence patterns did not differ from random. In general, community recovery appeared to be slower in unproductive Quercion forests. Species numbers, species abundance distributions, species co-occurrence patterns and plot dissimilarity still changed after 120 years. The persistent differences in both communities can be explained by the strong dispersal limitation of many of the involved species, but in the Quercion forests recovery is probably also severely hampered by establishment limitation.Es wurde bereits ausführlich dokumentiert, dass größere floristische Unterschiede zwischen sehr alten und jüngeren gemäßigten Laubwäldern existieren. Daher stellt sich die Frage, ob sich die Lebensgemeinschaftsstruktur und -organisation der Krautschicht ebenfalls unterscheidet und ob diese Unterschiede die gleichen bei produktiven vs. unproduktiven Waldtypen sind? Deshalb wählten wir aus einem größeren Datensatz, der 640 Aufnahmen aus dem nördlichen Belgien enthält, 127 Aufnahmen, die in produktiven Alno-Padion-Wäldern lagen, und 69 Aufnahmen, die in weniger produktiven Quercion-Wäldern lagen. Die Probeflächen unterschieden sich bezüglich der Landnutzungsgeschichte, aber es wurde sichergestellt, dass keine Kovarianz zwischen der Landnutzungsgeschichte auf der einen Seite und der Bodenstruktur, der Bodenentwässerung und der Blätterdachstruktur auf der anderen Seite bestand. In beiden Waldtypen zeigten ungefähr 30% der untersuchten Arten eine Assoziation entweder mit sehr alten oder jüngeren Wäldern. Nachhaltige Unterschiede zwischen sehr alten und jüngeren Wäldern wurden ebenfalls bei den Lebensform-

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Section: Changes In Community Structurementioning

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Herbaceous plant community structure of ancient and recent forests in two contrasting forest types

Verheyen

Bossuyt

Honnay

et al. 2003

Basic and Applied Ecology

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“…In 1935 vegetation and some environmental factors were investigated, based on 74 systematically distributed plots (Lindquist 1938). Tree populations and field layer vegetation have later been sampled after reestablishment of this plot system (Lindgren 1971;Persson 1980). From these analyses Malmer et al (1978) concluded that the general succession in Dalby S6derskog was converging toward a more homogeneous state with fewer species.…”

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Leaf litter fall and soil acidity during half a century of secondary succession in a temperate deciduous forest

1987

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Vegetation, leaf litter fall and soil pH were sampled repeatedly within semipermanent plots in a South-Swedish deciduous forest, 1935-1983. Leaf litter fall was summarized in a litter quality index. Vegetation types were differentiated along similar gradients in soil pH and leaf litter quality. The greatest shifts in dominance among field layer species were found in those plots where the quality of the leaf litter had improved. These plots also showed a halt in the general tendency towards a decreasing pH in the top soil.Nomenclature follows: Lid, J. 1979, Norsk og svensk flora. Oslo.

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“…Worryingly, despite widespread use of Ellenberg values in ecological and environmental research (e.g. Persson 1980;Wittig and Durwen, 1982;Latour et al 1994;Möller 1997;Bunce et al, 1999;Ewald, 2000;Smart 2000;Godefroid, 2001;Ling, 2003;Fanelli et al, 2006), this correlation is often an 84 implicit assumption rather than being based on empirical evidence. While some work has been done on the robustness of the Ellenberg system, studies have generally focussed upon the relationship with other indicator systems (e.g.…”

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How robust are community-based plant bioindicators? Empirical testing of the relationship between Ellenberg values and direct environmental measures in woodland communities

Carpenter¹,

Goodenough²

2014

Community Ecology

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Succession in a South Swedish deciduous wood: A numerical approach

Cited by 44 publications

References 11 publications

Herbaceous plant community structure of ancient and recent forests in two contrasting forest types

Herbaceous plant community structure of ancient and recent forests in two contrasting forest types

Leaf litter fall and soil acidity during half a century of secondary succession in a temperate deciduous forest

How robust are community-based plant bioindicators? Empirical testing of the relationship between Ellenberg values and direct environmental measures in woodland communities

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