Environmental Filtering and Dispersal Limitations Driving the Beta Diversity Patterns at Different Scales of Secondary Evergreen Broadleaved Forests in the Suburbs of Hangzhou

Autor: Liangjin Yao, Bo Jiang, Jiejie Jiao, Chuping Wu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Plants, Vol 12, Iss 17, p 3057 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2223-7747
DOI: 10.3390/plants12173057
Popis: Subtropical suburban secondary evergreen broadleaved forests are essential in regulating the ecological environment’s quality and promoting urban sustainable development. In the suburbs of Hangzhou City, well-preserved secondary evergreen broadleaved forest communities were selected to establish a 6 ha forest dynamic monitoring plot. Community surveys and environmental factor measurements were conducted in this area. This study investigated the beta diversity patterns at different scales by considering the environmental and spatial factors to explore the driving beta diversity. Using a similar paired-site beta diversity decomposition method, the study aimed to investigate the differences in species composition and the mechanisms of multiple species coexistence within the secondary evergreen broadleaved forest communities. The results showed that the beta diversity of the suburban secondary evergreen broadleaved forest communities decreased with the increasing spatial scale. Both the dispersal limitation and the environmental filtering were found to drive the formation of beta diversity patterns in these subtropical suburban forests. At relatively smaller scales (
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