Phenological spread in plants: A result of adaptations to environmental stochasticity?Vegetatio - Tập 43 - Trang 83-86 - 1980
Torbiörn Fagerström, Göran I. Agren
Plant species co-inhabiting a given geographical region often have distinetly different times of flowering. It is shown that such phenological spread, duc to short-term stochastic variation in weather variables, relaxes competition for empty sites to be colonized by diaspores. For sufficiently large spreads stable coexistence becomes possible. The applicability of the proposed hypothesis to the ob...... hiện toàn bộ
Possibilities for dispersal in annual and perennial grasses in a savanna in BotswanaVegetatio - Tập 102 - Trang 1-11 - 1992
W. H. O. Ernst, E. M. Veenendaal, M. M. Kebakile
Dispersal of 11 dominant grass species in the savanna of southern Botswana was investigated. The dispersal is autochorous, anemochorous and epizoochorous independent of the life-cycle (annuals, perennials). Dispersal distances were estimated experimentally. Anemochorous species with a plume-like spikelet such as Chloris virgata and Enneapogon cenchroides have a low rate of descent (<1 m s-1) and a...... hiện toàn bộ
Zur Soziologie der Cymbalaria-Parietarietea, am Beispiel der Mauerteppich-Gesellschaften ItaliensVegetatio - Tập 17 - Trang 208-213 - 1969
Erich Oberdorfer
Es wird, mit Gründen belegt, vorgeschlagen, die im mediterranen und atlantischen Europa weit verbreiteten, Stickstoff- und Feuchtigkeitsliebenden Mauerunkraut-(Mauerteppich-) Gesellschaften in einer eigenen Klasse der Cymbalario-Parietarietea zusammenzufassen. An Hand pflanzensoziologischer Aufnahmen aus Italien wird gezeigt, daß innerhalb dieser Pflanzengesellschafts-Gruppe neben dem Oxali-Pariet...... hiện toàn bộ
Ecological gradients of boreal forests in South Finland: an ordination test of Cajander's forest site type theoryVegetatio - Tập 68 - Trang 145-156 - 1987
Tapani Lahti, Risto A. Väisänen
Ecological gradients in the field layer of southern boreal forests in South Finland were studied in relation to the dominant tree species and the age of forest stands. The data are from a systematic sample of 529 plots from an area of 150 × 200 km, collected in the Third National Forest Inventory in 1951–53. Detrended correspondence analysis (DCA) was applied to log-transformed species cover value...... hiện toàn bộ
Ecological significance and classification of Chinese wetlandsVegetatio - Tập 118 - Trang 49-56 - 1995
J. Lu
China supports a great variety of wetlands, including some of the most important in the world. However, an appropriate classification system applicable to all wetlands is not available. Based on a preliminary inventory, a new classification system for Chinese wetlands is proposed. This system classifies natural wetlands into three categories on the basis of their natural features and distribution:...... hiện toàn bộ
Pattern and process in a New Zealand subalpine plant communityVegetatio - Tập 8 - Trang 209-214 - 1959
T. C. Chambers
Two dynamic patterns found in subalpine herbaceous communities of the North Island of New Zealand are described. These show remarkable similarities with patterns in comparable areas of the northern hemisphere described by Watt (1957) and Burges (1951) as “eroded Rhacomitrietum”. While the genera, except for Rhacomitrium are distinctive, the families represented by other basic zone formers in this ...... hiện toàn bộ
Tree regeneration patterns on Mount Usu, northern Japan, since the 1977–78 eruptionsVegetatio - Tập 126 - Trang 191-198 - 1996
Shiro Tsuyuzaki, Masahiro Haruki
Although the summit of Mount Usu was deforested by the 1977–78 eruptions, vegetative regeneration on the caldera rim was rapid due to the erosion of thick volcanic deposits by snow and rain. To obtain the mechanisms underlying regeneration patterns after the eruptions, we monitored the growth of permanently-marked stems from 1983 to 1990. Regeneration was from resprouting-branches buried in the vo...... hiện toàn bộ