Ecological controls on post‐fire vegetation assembly at multiple spatial scales in easternNorthAmerican boreal forests

Journal of Vegetation Science - Tập 26 Số 2 - Trang 360-372 - 2015
Juliette Boiffin1, Isabelle Aubin2, Alison D. Munson1,2
11Centre d'étude de la forêt Département des sciences du bois et de la forêt Faculté de foresterie, de géographie et de géomatique 2405, rue de la Terrasse, Pavillon Abitibi‐Price Université Laval Québec QC G1V0A6 Canada
22Natural Resources Canada Canadian Forest Service Great Lakes Forestry Centre 1219 Queen St. East Sault Ste. Marie ON P6A 2E5 Canada

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AbstractQuestionIn fire‐prone boreal forests, to what extent does fire severity influence understorey plant community assembly? What are the abiotic and biotic factors controlling understorey community regeneration at regional, landscape and local scales?LocationBlack spruce‐dominated boreal forest in eastern Canada.MethodsA taxonomic and a trait‐based approach were combined to evaluate the relative influence of habitat characteristics, burn severity and biotic processes on understorey regeneration at multiple spatial scales. Sampling of understorey vegetation cover was carried out in 133 recently burned plots located in 14 different fires across a 600‐km transect. The spatial hierarchy for sampling consisted of five fire regime zones (regional scale), two to four fires within each zone (landscape) and two to four toposequences within each fire (local). The environmental control of fire severity and habitat characteristics on understorey regeneration was assessed using a canonical redundancy analysis (RDA) and variation partitioning. We investigated environmental and biotic filters of species traits at different scales by modelling trait–spatial assemblages with Moran eigen vector maps (MEMs).ResultsIn spite of the large variability of environmental conditions covered by our sampling design, low depths of burn were measured in the large majority of the studied sites. Incomplete consumption of the forest floor is frequently observed in eastern boreal forests characterized by long fire cycles.In situbiological legacies persisted through the low‐severity fires, which conserved the pre‐fire relationships between plant communities and their environment. As a result, fire severity was neither the unique nor the dominant control on post‐fire regeneration. Habitat characteristics explained a three times higher proportion of variation in species composition. Biotic controls on trait assemblage increased at the two finer scales.ConclusionsSeverity alone cannot predict understorey vegetation assembly at different scales in the low‐severity fire regime characteristic of the eastern North American boreal forest.

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Journal of Vegetation Science

Tập 26 Số 2

360-372

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