A review of similarity between seed bank and standing vegetation under grazing

In recent years, many researchers have stated the importance of above and belowground interactions to better understand succession in plant communities and state and transition dynamics in rangelands. A review indicate that improved knowledge the soil's seed bank is a key element in understanding above and belowground interactions and plant community dynamics in grazed rangelands. The aim was to study current successional theories, with special emphasis on state and transition models to understand rangeland ecosystem dynamics under grazing. I thoroughly reviewed 28 articles published that summarized and provided specific values on similarities between above and belowground communities to identify under grazing across different ecosystem DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5564/mjas.v11i2.243 Mongolian Journal of Agricultural Sciences Vol.11(2) 2013 pp.191-196

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Phytoecological mapping of the dynamics of the arid territories desertification (the Southern Pre-Aral region)

Geobotanical mapping ◽

10.31111/geobotmap/1996.43 ◽

1997 ◽

pp. 43-52

Author(s):

N. M. Novikova

Keyword(s):

Plant Community ◽

Plant Communities ◽

Vegetation Dynamics ◽

Anthropogenic Impact ◽

Arid Regions ◽

Community Dynamics ◽

Anthropogenic Influence ◽

Plant Community Dynamics ◽

Region Scale ◽

Arid Territories

Authors recognize the different kinds of vegetation dynamics in arid regions: natural, natural under anthropogenic influence, and anthropogenic one. Developing the ideas of V. B. Sochava, plant community successions in two first cases are referred to «ranges of development». These ranges are used as a basis for the legend of Map of Plant Community Dynamics in the South Pre-Aral region (scale 1 : 500 000). Changes in vegetation under anthropogenic impact are regarded to «ranges of transformations». The latter are used as the subordinate categories in the legend. The «series» of the plant communities are the main categories in legend. They are formed under different edaphic processes during the evolution of the arid landscapes or at the anthropogenic influence.

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Ecological Site Descriptions Including use of State and Transition Models in Impacting Evolution of Plant Communities on Landscape and Erosion Evolution

10.13031/2013.39283 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Michael John Kucera ◽

David T Lightle

Keyword(s):

Plant Communities ◽

Ecological Site ◽

State And Transition Models ◽

Transition Models

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Global change and terrestrial plant community dynamics

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ◽

10.1073/pnas.1519911113 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 113 (14) ◽

pp. 3725-3734 ◽

Cited By ~ 134

Author(s):

Janet Franklin ◽

Josep M. Serra-Diaz ◽

Alexandra D. Syphard ◽

Helen M. Regan

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Population Dynamics ◽

Global Change ◽

Land Use Change ◽

Plant Community ◽

Plant Communities ◽

Community Dynamics ◽

Vegetation Changes ◽

Terrestrial Plant ◽

Plant Community Dynamics

Anthropogenic drivers of global change include rising atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses and resulting changes in the climate, as well as nitrogen deposition, biotic invasions, altered disturbance regimes, and land-use change. Predicting the effects of global change on terrestrial plant communities is crucial because of the ecosystem services vegetation provides, from climate regulation to forest products. In this paper, we present a framework for detecting vegetation changes and attributing them to global change drivers that incorporates multiple lines of evidence from spatially extensive monitoring networks, distributed experiments, remotely sensed data, and historical records. Based on a literature review, we summarize observed changes and then describe modeling tools that can forecast the impacts of multiple drivers on plant communities in an era of rapid change. Observed responses to changes in temperature, water, nutrients, land use, and disturbance show strong sensitivity of ecosystem productivity and plant population dynamics to water balance and long-lasting effects of disturbance on plant community dynamics. Persistent effects of land-use change and human-altered fire regimes on vegetation can overshadow or interact with climate change impacts. Models forecasting plant community responses to global change incorporate shifting ecological niches, population dynamics, species interactions, spatially explicit disturbance, ecosystem processes, and plant functional responses. Monitoring, experiments, and models evaluating multiple change drivers are needed to detect and predict vegetation changes in response to 21st century global change.

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