Impacts of climate, soil and biotic interactions on the interplay of the different facets of alpine plant diversity

López‐Angulo, Jesús; Pescador, David S.; Sánchez, Ana M.; Luzuriaga, Arántzazu L.; Cavieres, Lohengrin A.; Escudero, Adrián

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133960

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“…Soil quality conditions can interact with plant diversity; soil physicochemical properties indirectly affect plant species composition by influencing presence of soil mycorrhizal community and soil microorganisms (Perezramos et al, 2008). Plant diversity affects soil fertility for a long time, and an increase in soil total nitrogen may lead to the release of nitrogen limitation on certain species, thus increasing the number of plant species (Lopezangulo et al, 2020). Soil pH significantly affect plant species richness and change distribution range of plants due to larger species pools in high-pH soils (Crespomendes et al, 2019).…”

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Early effects of crop tree management on undergrowth plant diversity and soil physicochemical properties in a Pinus massoniana plantation

Lyu

Shen

et al. 2021

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Background Soil and understory vegetation are vital components of forest ecosystems. Identifying the interaction of plantation management to vegetation and soil is crucial for developing sustainable plantation ecosystem management strategies. As one of the main measures of close-to-nature management of forest plantation, few studies have paid attention to the effect of crop tree management on the soil properties and understory vegetation. Methods A 36-year-old Pinus massoniana plantation in Huaying city, Sichuan Province was taken as the research object to analyse the changes in undergrowth plant diversity and soil physicochemical properties under three different crop tree densities (100, 150, and 200 N/ha). Results Our results showed that the contents of available phosphorus, organic matter and hydrolysable nitrogen in the topsoil increased significantly after crop tree management, while content of available potassium decreased. The composition of shrub and herb layer was richer, and the dominant species were obviously replaced after crop tree management. The Shannon–Wiener index and Richness index of shrub layer, and the diversity of herb layer increased significantly after crop tree management. Herb layer diversity indexes and Richness index of shrub layer were closely related to soil organic matter, available phosphorus, hydrolysable nitrogen, available potassium, soil moisture and bulk density. As the main limiting factors for plant growth, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium were closely related to plant diversity and to the distribution of the dominant species. At the initial stage of crop tree management, each treatment significantly improved the soil physicochemical properties and plant diversity of Pinus massoniana plantation, and the comprehensive evaluation was 200 N/ha >100 N/ha >150 N/ha >CK. Compared with other treatments, 200 N/ha had the best effect on improving the undergrowth environment of the Pinus massoniana plantation in the initial stage of crop tree management.

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Early effects of crop tree management on undergrowth plant diversity and soil physicochemical properties in a Pinus massoniana plantation

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Shen

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“…Mountain regions encompassing steep environmental gradients in small geographic areas are outstanding natural laboratories for biodiversity studies because many environmental factors have correlations with elevation, such as temperature (Wu et al., 2013), productivity (Ramirez‐Bautista & Williams, 2019), and anthropogenic disturbance (Santillán et al., 2020), which exert effects on biological communities (Körner, 2007). Although elevational biodiversity in TD has been investigated extensively, other key components, such as FD and PD, are still poorly tested compared with TD patterns (Burgio et al., 2019; Lopez‐Angulo et al., 2020). Karst mountains are very special landscapes shaped by rainfall and groundwater acting on carbonate bedrock.…”

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Elevation patterns and critical environmental drivers of the taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of small mammals in a karst mountain area

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Wen

Feijó

et al. 2020

Ecology and Evolution

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“…Some succession studies support this idea, i.e., in subtropical forests stochastic processes such as functional changes, species richness or phylogenetics were dominant [ 47 ]. However, both aspects play an important role in structuring plant communities and consequently in the succession process [ 51 , 52 , 53 ].…”

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“…Plant-trait based plant ecology or functional plant ecology [ 53 , 93 ] consists of extrapolating plant functional traits from individuals to communities and can be connected to other ecological perspectives such as niche theory, competition, assemblage and ecological filters [ 90 , 94 ]. These plant functional traits are related to the morphological, physiological, behavioral, and phenological features of individuals and species that can affect fitness or persistence over time, and also detect previous selective pressures from biotic or abiotic filters [ 95 , 96 ].…”

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Impacts of Land-Use Changes on Vegetation and Ecosystem Functioning: Old-Field Secondary Succession

Pérez-Hernández

Gavilán

2021

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The study of ecological succession to determine how plant communities re-assemble after a natural or anthropogenic disturbance has always been an important topic in ecology. The understanding of these processes forms part of the new theories of community assembly and species coexistence, and is attracting attention in a context of expanding human impacts. Specifically, new successional studies provide answers to different mechanisms of community assemblage, and aim to define the importance of deterministic or stochastic processes in the succession dynamic. Biotic limits, which depend directly on biodiversity (i.e., species competition), and abiotic filtering, which depends on the environment, become particularly important when they are exceeded, making the succession process more complicated to reach the previous disturbance stage. Plant functional traits (PFTs) are used in secondary succession studies to establish differences between abandonment stages or to compare types of vegetation or flora, and are more closely related to the functioning of plant communities. Dispersal limitation is a PFT considered an important process from a stochastic point of view because it is related to the establishing of plants. Related to it the soil seed bank plays an important role in secondary succession because it is essential for ecosystem functioning. Soil compounds and microbial community are important variables to take into account when studying any succession stage. Chronosequence is the best way to study the whole process at different time scales. Finally, our objective in this review is to show how past studies and new insights are being incorporated into the basis of classic succession. To further explore this subject we have chosen old-field recovery as an example of how a number of different plant communities, including annual and perennial grasslands and shrublands, play an important role in secondary succession.

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Impacts of climate, soil and biotic interactions on the interplay of the different facets of alpine plant diversity

Cited by 37 publications

References 82 publications

Early effects of crop tree management on undergrowth plant diversity and soil physicochemical properties in a Pinus massoniana plantation

Early effects of crop tree management on undergrowth plant diversity and soil physicochemical properties in a Pinus massoniana plantation

Elevation patterns and critical environmental drivers of the taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of small mammals in a karst mountain area

Impacts of Land-Use Changes on Vegetation and Ecosystem Functioning: Old-Field Secondary Succession

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