Elevation and exposition rather than soil types determine communities and site suitability in Mediterranean mountain forests of southern Anatolia, Turkey

Fontaine, Maximilien; Aerts, Raf; Özkan, Kürşad; Mert, Ahmet; Gülsoy, Serkan; Süel, Halil; Waelkens, Marc; Muys, Bart

doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2007.04.021

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“…We show that for an area of 8000 km², GIS calculations overall perform slightly better than slope-aspect transformations. This explains how many studies carried out on smaller areas detect predictive ability in northness or eastness indices (Horsch, 2003;Kennedy and Spiesa, 2004;Lassueur et al, 2006;Fontaine et al, 2007;Gong et al, 2008). These results justify the choice of the cloud cover model for plant modelling for all the studied scales.…”

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Efficient assessment of topographic solar radiation to improve plant distribution models

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Gégout

2008

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

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Efficient assessment of topographic solar radiation to improve plant distribution models

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Gégout

2008

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

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“…Species found in fewer than four plots (frequency<8%) were removed from the PCA analysis (Singleton et al 2001;Fontaine et al 2007) because they exhibited a relatively low amount of mean cover compared with the other species analysed and introduced random noise into the analysis. Plant species data, coded as in Appendix B, were projected onto bi-plots of factorial axes (using untransformed data).…”

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At which spatial scale are plant species composition and diversity affected in beech forests?

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Amézaga

Onaindia

2011

Annals of Forest Science

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Abstract• Context Landscape structure is crucial for forest conservation in regions where the natural forest is fragmented. Practical conservation is currently shifting from local stands to a landscape perspective, although few studies have tested the relative effects of different spatial scales on plant species composition and diversity in forests.• Methods We studied vascular plants and 17 predictor variables related to landscape (i.e. patch size or the surrounding landscape matrix) and stand conditions (i.e. soil pH and stand structure) in 50 semi-natural beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) forests in the northern Iberian Peninsula.• Aims We analysed the effect of landscape heterogeneity and stand-associated environmental conditions on plant species composition and diversity. Moreover, we studied the influence of these scales on the diversity of different life forms.• Results Plant species composition and diversity responded primarily to suitable habitat proportions in the surrounding landscape and secondarily to soil pH. The response to these factors differed among life forms. Species diversity, especially tree and shrub diversity, increased with increases in the proportion of ecologically similar habitat in the surrounding landscape (forests dominated by Quercus spp.). Species diversity (primarily herb diversity) also increased with increasing soil pH.• Conclusion Future landscape management should seek to produce a heterogeneous matrix comprising patches of natural, unmanaged and managed deciduous forest and including other traditional uses and forest plantations.

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“…In fact, topography interacts with local wind direction, microclimates and, in turn, vegetation type, fuel loads and moisture content. Several studies have shown topographic influences on vegetation composition and structure (Fontaine et al, 2007;Rescia et al, 1994), transpiration and desiccation conditions (Rana et al, 2005;Van der Trol et al, 2007), vegetation dynamics (Carmel andFlather, 2004;Mouillot et al, 2005), fire severity (Broncano and Retana 2004), and post-fire vegetation regeneration (Peñuelas et al, 2007;Baeza et al, 2007). Furthermore, some of the observed topographic effects on fire occurrence can be explained by human activities (e.g.…”

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Landscape – wildfire interactions in southern Europe: Implications for landscape management

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Journal of Environmental Management

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Every year approx. half a million hectares of land are burned by wildfires in southern Europe, causing large ecological and socio-economic impacts. Climate and land use changes in the last decades have increased fire risk and danger. In this paper we review the available scientific knowledge on the relationships between landscape and wildfires in the Mediterranean region, with a focus on its application for defining landscape management guidelines and policies that could be adopted in order to promote landscapes with lower fire hazard. The main findings are that (1) socio-economic drivers have favoured land cover changes contributing to increasing fire hazard in the last decades, (2) large wildfires are becoming more frequent, (3) increased fire frequency is promoting homogeneous landscapes covered by fire-prone shrublands; (4) landscape planning to reduce fuel loads may be successful only if fire weather conditions are not extreme. The challenges to address these problems and the policy and landscape management responses that should be adopted are discussed, along with the major knowledge gaps.

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Elevation and exposition rather than soil types determine communities and site suitability in Mediterranean mountain forests of southern Anatolia, Turkey

Cited by 67 publications

References 30 publications

Efficient assessment of topographic solar radiation to improve plant distribution models

Efficient assessment of topographic solar radiation to improve plant distribution models

At which spatial scale are plant species composition and diversity affected in beech forests?

Landscape – wildfire interactions in southern Europe: Implications for landscape management

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