12.1 Plant Community Composition

12.1 Plant Community Composition, Diversity, and Similarity

This module focuses on plant community diversity: how it is described, how it is measured, and how diversity is interpreted by land managers to inform ...

4.8 Plant community composition - ClimEx Handbook

Plant community composition is the description of the vegetation in a fixed area by the species present and, often, their abundance.

Plant traits and community composition drive the assembly ... - NCBI

Plant communities and soil factors drive the community assembly processes of rare abundant fungi in deserts ... Uncovering ecological drivers ...

Plant community composition and structure under short-term grazing ...

SPEI-6 and SPEI-12 values revealed a long episode of severe drought (SPEI < 0) between May 2012 and December 2014. Furthermore, April 2014 (the sampling period) ...

The drivers of plant community composition have shifted ... - Nature

Internal and external factors regulating the past composition of plant communities are difficult to identify in palaeo-vegetation records.

Drivers of plant diversity, community composition, functional traits ...

We tested the hypothesis that plant community assembly along a climatic and elevation gradient is influenced by shifts in habitat suitability, ...

Invasive Species Change Plant Community Composition of ... - MDPI

Table 2. Plant species evaluated as potential drivers of plant community composition of the low prairie and wet meadow vegetation zones of ...

Plant species richness and community assembly along gradients of ...

The numbers of both tree species and herb and fern species were positively correlated with soil nitrogen availability. Community-weighted means (CWMs) of the ...

Effects of plant community history, soil legacy and plant diversity on ...

new plant communities) and soil legacy (old vs. new soil) with plant diversity (species richness levels 1, 2, 4 and 8, each with 12 different ...

Plant community composition determines the strength of top-down ...

In soil micro-arthropod food webs, plant communities regulate the availability of basal resources like soil microbial biomass. Mixed plant ...

Shifts in plant functional community composition under hydrological ...

Hydrological stress caused profound shifts in species' abundances and consequently in plant functional community composition. Hydrologically ...

Changes in plant community composition and functional plant traits ...

Additionally, green roofs are generally not designed with the primary purpose of air pollution mitigation [12,13], so the selection of plants ...

Plant Community Composition - latest research news and features

News on plant community composition · Study shows microbial diversity differences in volcanic cones and craters · Mixed forests store more soil organic carbon ...

Plant community analysis along environmental gradients in moist ...

Information on species composition and diversity of tree species plays a pivotal role not only to understand the structure of a forest community ...

Changes in plant community composition, not diversity ... - USDA ARS

ents, plant community composition, plant diversity, species richness ... Ecosys- tems, 12, 982–995. Cleland, E.E. & Harpole, W.S. (2010) Nitrogen ...

Plant Community Composition and Biodiversity Patterns in Urban ...

The vegetation, as well as the climate, physical geography, and natural disturbance (e.g., fire, wind, animal grazing, etc.) of the region act to support a ...

Soil biodiversity and soil community composition determine ... - PNAS

... species harvested was counted, and shoot biomass was determined. At 12 wk in the second experimental trial, plants were harvested at 5 cm ...

Effect of climate and altitude on plant community composition and ...

Plant communities are shaped by multiple factors along environmental gradients; however, studies are limited on how environmental filtering ...

Assembly of Plant Communities

demonstrates that the composition of plant communities is highly dynamic. As ... 2009;12:693–715. 3 Assembly of Plant Communities. 85. Page 20. Chesson P ...

Volume 12 Issue 4 | Journal of Plant Ecology - Oxford Academic

... plant community composition in an alpine meadow. Fei Chen and others. Journal of Plant Ecology, Volume 12, Issue 4, August 2019, Pages 693–702, https://doi ...