Biotic and abiotic treatments as a bet‐hedging approach to restoring plant communities and soil functions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey J. Rader ◽  
Lindsay P. Chiquoine ◽  
James F. Weigand ◽  
Judy L. Perkins ◽  
Seth M. Munson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities ◽  
Soil Functions ◽  
Bet Hedging

scholarly journals Recovery of ultramafic soil functions and plant communities along an age-gradient of the actinorhizal tree Ceuthostoma terminale (Casuarinaceae) in Sabah (Malaysia)

2019 ◽  
Vol 440 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 201-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celestino Quintela-Sabarís ◽  
Etienne Auber ◽  
Sukaibin Sumail ◽  
Jean-François Masfaraud ◽  
Michel-Pierre Faucon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities ◽  
Soil Functions ◽  
Ultramafic Soil

scholarly journals Digital Mapping of Habitat for Plant Communities Based on Soil Functions: A Case Study in the Virgin Forest-Steppe of Russia

Soil Systems ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolai Lozbenev ◽  
Maria Smirnova ◽  
Maxim Bocharnikov ◽  
Daniil Kozlov
Keyword(s):  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Plant Communities ◽  
Plant Cover ◽  
Spatial Prediction ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Water Runoff ◽  
Soil Functions ◽  
Soil Function ◽  
Virgin Forest ◽  
Central Russian Upland

The spatial structure of the habitat for plant communities based on soil functions in virgin forest-steppe of the Central Russian Upland is the focus of this study. The objectives include the identification of the leading factors of soil function variety and to determine the spatial heterogeneity of the soil function. A detailed topographic survey was carried out on a key site (35 hectares), 157 soil, and 34 geobotanical descriptions were made. The main factor of soil and plant cover differentiation is the redistribution of soil moisture along the microrelief. Redistributed runoff value was modelled in SIMWE and used as a tool for spatial prediction of soils due to their role in a habitat for plant communities’ functional context. The main methods of the study are the multidimensional scaling and discriminant analysis. We model the composition of plant communities (accuracy is 95%) and Reference Soil Group (accuracy is 88%) due to different soil moisture conditions. There are two stable soil habitat types: mesophytic communities on the Phaeozems (with additional water runoff more than 80 mm) and xerophytic communities on Chernozems (additional runoff less than 55 mm). A transitional type corresponded to xero- mesophytic communities on the Phaeozems with 55–80 mm additional redistributed runoff value. With acceptable accuracy, the habitat for natural plant communities based on soil function model predicts the position of contrastingly different components of biota in relation to their soil moisture requirements within the virgin forest-steppe of the Central Russian Upland.

British Plant Communities

1991 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities

British Plant Communities

1992 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities

British Plant Communities

1995 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities

Weed plant communities of orchards in Siwa Oasis, Egypt

1994 ◽  
Vol 105 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 387-398
Author(s):  
M. M. Abd El-Ghani
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities ◽  
Weed Plant

Temporal dynamics of mycorrhizal fungal communities and co-associations with grassland plant communities following experimental manipulation of rainfall

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Coline Deveautour ◽  
Sally Power ◽  
Kirk Barnett ◽  
Raul Ochoa-Hueso ◽  
Suzanne Donn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Composition ◽  
Plant Community ◽  
Plant Communities ◽  
Fungal Community ◽  
Mycorrhizal Fungi ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal ◽  
Fungal Communities ◽  
Plant Responses ◽  
Rainfall Regimes

Climate models project overall a reduction in rainfall amounts and shifts in the timing of rainfall events in mid-latitudes and sub-tropical dry regions, which threatens the productivity and diversity of grasslands. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi may help plants to cope with expected changes but may also be impacted by changing rainfall, either via the direct effects of low soil moisture on survival and function or indirectly via changes in the plant community. In an Australian mesic grassland (former pasture) system, we characterised plant and arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal communities every six months for nearly four years to two altered rainfall regimes: i) ambient, ii) rainfall reduced by 50% relative to ambient over the entire year and iii) total summer rainfall exclusion. Using Illumina sequencing, we assessed the response of AM fungal communities sampled from contrasting rainfall treatments and evaluated whether variation in AM fungal communities was associated with variation in plant community richness and composition. We found that rainfall reduction influenced the fungal communities, with the nature of the response depending on the type of manipulation, but that consistent results were only observed after more than two years of rainfall manipulation. We observed significant co-associations between plant and AM fungal communities on multiple dates. Predictive co-correspondence analyses indicated more support for the hypothesis that fungal community composition influenced plant community composition than vice versa. However, we found no evidence that altered rainfall regimes were leading to distinct co-associations between plants and AM fungi. Overall, our results provide evidence that grassland plant communities are intricately tied to variation in AM fungal communities. However, in this system, plant responses to climate change may not be directly related to impacts of altered rainfall regimes on AM fungal communities. Our study shows that AM fungal communities respond to changes in rainfall but that this effect was not immediate. The AM fungal community may influence the composition of the plant community. However, our results suggest that plant responses to altered rainfall regimes at our site may not be resulting via changes in the AM fungal communities.

Remote estimation techniques of biophysical parameters of forest plant communities and agrophytocenoses within different landscape and climatic zones of Ukraine

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (4(95)) ◽  
pp. 81-83
Author(s):  
V.I. Lyalko ◽  
◽  
M.O. Popov ◽  
V.O. Yatsenko ◽  
O.I. Sakhatsky ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities ◽  
Biophysical Parameters ◽  
Climatic Zones ◽  
Estimation Techniques ◽  
Remote Estimation

Variation of plant communities along an elevation gradient in the Guandi Mountains, North China

2004 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.T. Zhang ◽  
T.G. Chen
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities ◽  
North China ◽  
Elevation Gradient
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