Vegetation on mesic loamy and sandy soils along a 1700‐km maritime Eurasia Arctic Transect
QUESTIONS: How do plant communities on zonal loamy vs. sandy soils vary across the full maritime Arctic bioclimate gradient? How are plant communities of these areas related to existing vegetation units of the European Vegetation Classification? What are the main environmental factors controlling tr...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:6519894 2023-05-15T14:53:04+02:00 Vegetation on mesic loamy and sandy soils along a 1700‐km maritime Eurasia Arctic Transect Walker, Donald A. Epstein, Howard E. Šibík, Jozef Bhatt, Uma Romanovsky, Vladimir E. Breen, Amy L. Chasníková, Silvia Daanen, Ronald Druckenmiller, Lisa A. Ermokhina, Ksenia Forbes, Bruce C. Frost, Gerald V. Geml, Jozsef Kaärlejarvi, Elina Khitun, Olga Khomutov, Artem Kumpula, Timo Kuss, Patrick Matyshak, Georgy Moskalenko, Natalya Orekhov, Pavel Peirce, Jana Raynolds, Martha K. Timling, Ina 2019-02-27 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6519894/ https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12401 en eng John Wiley and Sons Inc. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6519894/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12401 © 2018 The Authors. International Association for Vegetation Science published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. CC-BY Vegetation Survey Text 2019 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12401 2019-05-26T00:24:13Z QUESTIONS: How do plant communities on zonal loamy vs. sandy soils vary across the full maritime Arctic bioclimate gradient? How are plant communities of these areas related to existing vegetation units of the European Vegetation Classification? What are the main environmental factors controlling transitions of vegetation along the bioclimate gradient? LOCATION: 1700‐km Eurasia Arctic Transect (EAT), Yamal Peninsula and Franz Josef Land (FJL), Russia. METHODS: The Braun‐Blanquet approach was used to sample mesic loamy and sandy plots on 14 total study sites at six locations, one in each of the five Arctic bioclimate subzones and the forest–tundra transition. Trends in soil factors, cover of plant growth forms (PGFs) and species diversity were examined along the summer warmth index (SWI) gradient and on loamy and sandy soils. Classification and ordination were used to group the plots and to test relationships between vegetation and environmental factors. RESULTS: Clear, mostly non‐linear, trends occurred for soil factors, vegetation structure and species diversity along the climate gradient. Cluster analysis revealed seven groups with clear relationships to subzone and soil texture. Clusters at the ends of the bioclimate gradient (forest–tundra and polar desert) had many highly diagnostic taxa, whereas clusters from the Yamal Peninsula had only a few. Axis 1 of a DCA was strongly correlated with latitude and summer warmth; Axis 2 was strongly correlated with soil moisture, percentage sand and landscape age. CONCLUSIONS: Summer temperature and soil texture have clear effects on tundra canopy structure and species composition, with consequences for ecosystem properties. Each layer of the plant canopy has a distinct region of peak abundance along the bioclimate gradient. The major vegetation types are weakly aligned with described classes of the European Vegetation Checklist, indicating a continuous floristic gradient rather than distinct subzone regions. The study provides ground‐based vegetation data for ... Text Arctic Franz Josef Land polar desert Tundra Yamal Peninsula PubMed Central (PMC) Arctic Franz Josef Land ENVELOPE(55.000,55.000,81.000,81.000) Yamal Peninsula ENVELOPE(69.873,69.873,70.816,70.816) Applied Vegetation Science 22 1 150 167 |
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QUESTIONS: How do plant communities on zonal loamy vs. sandy soils vary across the full maritime Arctic bioclimate gradient? How are plant communities of these areas related to existing vegetation units of the European Vegetation Classification? What are the main environmental factors controlling transitions of vegetation along the bioclimate gradient? LOCATION: 1700‐km Eurasia Arctic Transect (EAT), Yamal Peninsula and Franz Josef Land (FJL), Russia. METHODS: The Braun‐Blanquet approach was used to sample mesic loamy and sandy plots on 14 total study sites at six locations, one in each of the five Arctic bioclimate subzones and the forest–tundra transition. Trends in soil factors, cover of plant growth forms (PGFs) and species diversity were examined along the summer warmth index (SWI) gradient and on loamy and sandy soils. Classification and ordination were used to group the plots and to test relationships between vegetation and environmental factors. RESULTS: Clear, mostly non‐linear, trends occurred for soil factors, vegetation structure and species diversity along the climate gradient. Cluster analysis revealed seven groups with clear relationships to subzone and soil texture. Clusters at the ends of the bioclimate gradient (forest–tundra and polar desert) had many highly diagnostic taxa, whereas clusters from the Yamal Peninsula had only a few. Axis 1 of a DCA was strongly correlated with latitude and summer warmth; Axis 2 was strongly correlated with soil moisture, percentage sand and landscape age. CONCLUSIONS: Summer temperature and soil texture have clear effects on tundra canopy structure and species composition, with consequences for ecosystem properties. Each layer of the plant canopy has a distinct region of peak abundance along the bioclimate gradient. The major vegetation types are weakly aligned with described classes of the European Vegetation Checklist, indicating a continuous floristic gradient rather than distinct subzone regions. The study provides ground‐based vegetation data for ... |
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Walker, Donald A. Epstein, Howard E. Šibík, Jozef Bhatt, Uma Romanovsky, Vladimir E. Breen, Amy L. Chasníková, Silvia Daanen, Ronald Druckenmiller, Lisa A. Ermokhina, Ksenia Forbes, Bruce C. Frost, Gerald V. Geml, Jozsef Kaärlejarvi, Elina Khitun, Olga Khomutov, Artem Kumpula, Timo Kuss, Patrick Matyshak, Georgy Moskalenko, Natalya Orekhov, Pavel Peirce, Jana Raynolds, Martha K. Timling, Ina |
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Walker, Donald A. Epstein, Howard E. Šibík, Jozef Bhatt, Uma Romanovsky, Vladimir E. Breen, Amy L. Chasníková, Silvia Daanen, Ronald Druckenmiller, Lisa A. Ermokhina, Ksenia Forbes, Bruce C. Frost, Gerald V. Geml, Jozsef Kaärlejarvi, Elina Khitun, Olga Khomutov, Artem Kumpula, Timo Kuss, Patrick Matyshak, Georgy Moskalenko, Natalya Orekhov, Pavel Peirce, Jana Raynolds, Martha K. Timling, Ina |
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Vegetation on mesic loamy and sandy soils along a 1700‐km maritime Eurasia Arctic Transect |
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Vegetation on mesic loamy and sandy soils along a 1700‐km maritime Eurasia Arctic Transect |
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Vegetation on mesic loamy and sandy soils along a 1700‐km maritime Eurasia Arctic Transect |
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Vegetation on mesic loamy and sandy soils along a 1700‐km maritime Eurasia Arctic Transect |
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Vegetation on mesic loamy and sandy soils along a 1700‐km maritime Eurasia Arctic Transect |
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vegetation on mesic loamy and sandy soils along a 1700‐km maritime eurasia arctic transect |
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ENVELOPE(55.000,55.000,81.000,81.000) ENVELOPE(69.873,69.873,70.816,70.816) |
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