Biological Flora of Central Europe: Calamagrostis epigejos (L.) Roth

Rebele, Franz; Lehmann, Christian

doi:10.1016/s0367-2530(17)30069-5

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“…It has to be noted that both Calamagrostis epigejos and Solidago gigantea were located close to moisture-demanding species in ordination space. The growth of Calamagrostis epigejos is enhanced under low-intensity management regime [68], and under moist and nutrient-rich conditions [69]. Solidago gigantea also shows tendency to occur in relatively moist sites [70] and it commonly thrives in abandoned or sporadically mown grasslands [71].…”

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A performance comparison of sampling methods in the assessment of species composition patterns and environment–vegetation relationships in species-rich grasslands

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The influence that different sampling methods have on the results and the interpretation of vegetation analysis has been much debated, but little is yet known about how the spatial arrangement of samples affect patterns of species composition and environment-vegetation relationships within the same vegetation type. We compared three data sets of the same sample size obtained by three standard sampling methods: preferential, random, and systematic. These different sampling methods were applied to a study area comprising of 36 ha of intermittently wet Molinia meadows. We compared the performance of the three methods under two management categories: managed (extensively mown) and unmanaged (abandoned for 10 years). A total of 285 vegetation-plots were sampled, with 95 plots recorded per sampling method. In preferential sampling, we sampled only patches of vegetation with an abundance of indicator species of the habitat type, while random and systematic plots were positioned independently from the researcher by using GIS. The effect of each sampling method on the patterns of species composition and species-environment relationships was explored by redundancy analysis and the significance of effects was tested by the randomization test. Preferential sampling revealed different patterns of species composition than random and systematic sampling methods. Random and systematic sampling methods have resulted in broader vegetation variability than with preferential sampling method. Preferential sampling revealed different relationship between soil parameters and species composition in contrast to random and systematic sampling methods. Although we have not found significant differences in vegetation-environment relationships between random and systematic sampling methods, random sampling revealed a more robust correlation of species data to soil factors than preferential and systematic sampling methods. Intentional restriction of vegetation variation sampled preferentially may be detrimental to statistical inference in studies of species composition patterns and vegetation-environment relationships.

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“…The growing abundance of an expansive species may strongly change the quantitative proportions between species as well as spatial properties of the sward. In Central Europe, one such species is Calamagrostis epigejos (wood small-reed), whose expansion often leads to the degradation of vegetation of abandoned or irregularly managed meadows [9,[13][14][15][16][17].…”

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“…Calamagrostis epigejos is a fast-growing perennial grass, which is one of the strongest competitors, and therefore is able to degrade various plant communities in Europe [9,12,13,16] and North America [18]. This species possesses various features of an expansive plant, such as high morphological and physiological plasticity, long rhizomes [19,20], and a high growth rate [13].…”

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The influence of Calamagrostis epigejos expansion on the species composition and soil properties of mountain mesic meadows

Pruchniewicz

Żołnierz

2016

Acta Soc Bot Pol

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Due to social and economic changes which have occurred in the last decades, many meadows located in mountain regions have ceased to be used. Abandonment of meadows leads to the degradation of their species composition. An example of degradation may be seen in the development of patches dominated by Calamagrostis epigejos. The aim of this research was to determine the influence of C. epigejos in its consecutive expansion stages on qualitative properties of meadow sward and on selected physico-chemical properties of soils. The study revealed strong degradation of mountain meadows due to the expansion of C. epigejos. The degradation manifested in a decrease in species diversity, a decline of species typical for mesic meadows, and an increased proportion of synanthropic species. The increase in aboveground biomass of C. epigejos strongly reduced the biomass of other species, while underground biomass had no effect on accompanying species. However, only a small impact of C. epigejos expansion on soil degradation was detected. The cumulating plant necromass dominated by this species caused a decrease in diversity indices and, at the same time, an increase in exchangeable forms of potassium and phosphorus in the soil.

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“…Grace et al 2001, Grilz and Romo 1994, Willson and Stubbendieck 2000. The noxious weed chee reedgrass (Calamagrostis epigeios (L.) Roth) is able to colonise rapidly a wide range of disturbed habitats, particularly forest clearings, abandoned fields and wastelands (Rebele and Lehmann 2001).…”

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Leaf morphology and anatomy in two contrasting environments for C₃and C₄grasses of different invasion potential

Han

Mojzes

Kalapos

2008

Acta Botanica Hungarica

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Leaf morphology, coarse structure and anatomy were compared for two invasive C 4 , two non-invasive C 4 , and two expanding native C 3 grass species grown in their original, high-light semiarid temperate habitat, and in a growth room under variable moderate light and favourable supply of water and nutrients. It was hypothesised that (H 1 ) among C 4 grasses leaf structural response will be greater for invasive than for non-invasive species, and (H 2 ) for plants of high spreading capacity C 4 species will be less responsive than C 3 species. Leaf mass per area was lower in the growth room than in the field by 43.4-54% and 5.7-21.2% for grasses of high spreading capacity and for non-invasive C 4 species, respectively. Little or no response was observed in the proportion of epidermis and mesophyll, but the proportional area of veins plus sclerenchyma was greater in the field than in the growth room for the invasive C 4 Sorghum halepense, and the spreading C 3 Bromus inermis and Calamagrostis epigeios, while it did not differ for the two non-invasive C 4 grasses and the invasive C 4 Cynodon dactylon. Leaf intervenial distance was invariant for C 4 grasses (except for the non-invasive Chrysopogon gryllus) and the C 3 C. epigeios, but changed by 25.1% for the C 3 B. inermis. These results suggest that among C 4 grasses invasive species exceed non-invasive ones in the plasticity of leaf coarse structure, but not that of leaf morphology and anatomy. However, leaf structure was not less plastic in invasive C 4 than in expanding C 3 grasses except for intervenial distance.

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Biological Flora of Central Europe: Calamagrostis epigejos (L.) Roth

Cited by 96 publications

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A performance comparison of sampling methods in the assessment of species composition patterns and environment–vegetation relationships in species-rich grasslands

A performance comparison of sampling methods in the assessment of species composition patterns and environment–vegetation relationships in species-rich grasslands

The influence of Calamagrostis epigejos expansion on the species composition and soil properties of mountain mesic meadows

Leaf morphology and anatomy in two contrasting environments for C₃and C₄grasses of different invasion potential

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Cited by 96 publications

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A performance comparison of sampling methods in the assessment of species composition patterns and environment–vegetation relationships in species-rich grasslands

A performance comparison of sampling methods in the assessment of species composition patterns and environment–vegetation relationships in species-rich grasslands

The influence of Calamagrostis epigejos expansion on the species composition and soil properties of mountain mesic meadows

Leaf morphology and anatomy in two contrasting environments for C3and C4grasses of different invasion potential

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