Two centuries of forest succession, and 30 years of vegetation changes in permanent plots in an inland sand dune area, The Netherlands
| Autor: | Josef Fanta, Karol Ujházy, Karel Prach, Vlastimil Knopp |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Invasive Species Ecological succession Forests 01 natural sciences Trees Geographical Locations herb layer Netherlands Multidisciplinary geography.geographical_feature_category Ecology dunes Eukaryota Vegetation Plants Old-growth forest Terrestrial Environments Paleoxylology Europe Geography Deciduous Medicine permanent plots Research Article Conservation of Natural Resources Ecological Metrics Science Chronosequence Herbs age structure 010603 evolutionary biology Ecosystems Sand dune stabilization Species Colonization forest succession Temperate climate 0105 earth and related environmental sciences species diversity Ecology and Environmental Sciences Organisms Biology and Life Sciences Paleontology Species diversity People and Places Earth Sciences Pines |
| Zdroj: | PLoS ONE PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 4, p e0250003 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0250003 |
| Popis: | Different successional stages, aged up to 205 years since the first tree individuals established, were identified and vegetation studied using 1200 permanent plots established in 1988 in three adjacent drift sand dune complexes of different successional age, and resampled during the past three decades in the Veluwe, central Netherlands. After two centuries, forest succession has proceeded to a pine forest with gradually increasing participation of native deciduous trees. However, their expansion has been arrested by browsing of wild ungulates. Species diversity peaked after about 40 years of forest succession, then declined, and increased again after 100 years. During the past three decades, the herb layer has differentiated in the oldest plots, and the spontaneous forest succession is still in progress. Besides open drift sand with early successional stages, also the spontaneously established late successional forests are valuable from the conservation point of view. Here we have stored a complete data set consisted of 10x10 m subplots of three (A, B and C) 200 x 200 m plots. Plots A and B were resampled only in 2003, while plot C also in 2018. Phytosociological relevés with records of vascular plants are provided in form of matrix in JUICE programme (Tichý 2002) including header data. These data from selected series of plots/years wera used for ordination analyses and to compare species composition of plot/years in a synoptic table. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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