Changes in soil properties and vegetation characteristics along a forest-savanna gradient in southern Venezuela

Autor:	Gabriel Picón, Noemí Chacón, Nelda Dezzeo, Elio Sanoja
Rok vydání:	2004
Předmět:	Ecology Forestry Management Monitoring Policy and Law Perturbation (geology) Floristics Vegetation cover Soil water Secondary forest Plant cover Environmental science Soil properties Forest degradation Nature and Landscape Conservation
Zdroj:	Forest Ecology and Management. 200:183-193
ISSN:	0378-1127
DOI:	10.1016/j.foreco.2004.06.016
Popis:	Vegetation cover in the Gran Sabana highlands (southern Venezuela) appears as a complex mosaic of tall to low forests, bush vegetation and savannas. In this study we described the changes in structure and floristic composition along a forest-savanna gradient consisted of tall forest (TF), medium forest (MF), low forest (LF) and open savanna (S), and analyse the possible reasons for the observed changes. The results showed no obvious differences in the soils properties along the vegetation gradient. All sites presented shallow soils (
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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