Ecological pattern of lichen species abundance in mixed forests of Eastern Romania
<p>The importance of this study consists in the knowledge of the ecological attributes characteristic to mixed forestry habitats and how they affect the structure of the lichen species abundances. The field activities were performed within five forest habitat types from Moldavia Province, char...
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| description | <p>The importance of this study consists in the knowledge of the ecological attributes characteristic to mixed forestry habitats and how they affect the structure of the lichen species abundances. The field activities were performed within five forest habitat types from Moldavia Province, characterised mainly by oak mixed forests, riparian mixed forests and mixed beech forests. The habitat variables, tree variables and the lichen species abundances were analysed to get informations on the structural disimilarities, on the one hand, and relationships on the other hand. Within this study no significant disimilarities were found out from abundance lichen species point of view. The lichen species abundances are a result of interactions between components of their microhabitat and macrohabitat. The correlation analysis pointed out the preferences of lichen species to their host trees, especially Quercus and Fraxinus, altitude and tree level variables as are aspect and mosses coverage. The regression analysis has highlighted that the changes in lichen species abundances are caused by macrohabitat level predictors such as host trees represented by Fraxinus. This study demonstrates that, structure of lichen species is influenced by attributes of mixed forest habitats; therefore maintaining the diversity of tree species and ensuring the continuous occurrence of forestry land is necessary for lichen and their habitat conservation.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c7a6f22f21e0426a88e8a01553bbdd572022-12-22T01:30:27Zeng‘Marin Drăcea’ National Research-Development Institute in ForestryAnnals of Forest Research1844-81352065-24452016-12-0159223724810.15287/afr.2016.466266Ecological pattern of lichen species abundance in mixed forests of Eastern RomaniaIoana Vicol0Department of Ecology, Taxonomy and Nature Conservation, Institute of Biology Bucharest of Romanian Academy, 296 Splaiul Independentei, 060031 Bucharest, P.O. Box 56-53, Romania<p>The importance of this study consists in the knowledge of the ecological attributes characteristic to mixed forestry habitats and how they affect the structure of the lichen species abundances. The field activities were performed within five forest habitat types from Moldavia Province, characterised mainly by oak mixed forests, riparian mixed forests and mixed beech forests. The habitat variables, tree variables and the lichen species abundances were analysed to get informations on the structural disimilarities, on the one hand, and relationships on the other hand. Within this study no significant disimilarities were found out from abundance lichen species point of view. The lichen species abundances are a result of interactions between components of their microhabitat and macrohabitat. The correlation analysis pointed out the preferences of lichen species to their host trees, especially Quercus and Fraxinus, altitude and tree level variables as are aspect and mosses coverage. The regression analysis has highlighted that the changes in lichen species abundances are caused by macrohabitat level predictors such as host trees represented by Fraxinus. This study demonstrates that, structure of lichen species is influenced by attributes of mixed forest habitats; therefore maintaining the diversity of tree species and ensuring the continuous occurrence of forestry land is necessary for lichen and their habitat conservation.</p>https://www.afrjournal.org/index.php/afr/article/view/466fraxinus, macrohabitat drivers, microhabitat particularities, quercus, forest conservation |
| spellingShingle | Ioana Vicol Ecological pattern of lichen species abundance in mixed forests of Eastern Romania Annals of Forest Research fraxinus, macrohabitat drivers, microhabitat particularities, quercus, forest conservation |
| title | Ecological pattern of lichen species abundance in mixed forests of Eastern Romania |
| title_full | Ecological pattern of lichen species abundance in mixed forests of Eastern Romania |
| title_fullStr | Ecological pattern of lichen species abundance in mixed forests of Eastern Romania |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ecological pattern of lichen species abundance in mixed forests of Eastern Romania |
| title_short | Ecological pattern of lichen species abundance in mixed forests of Eastern Romania |
| title_sort | ecological pattern of lichen species abundance in mixed forests of eastern romania |
| topic | fraxinus, macrohabitat drivers, microhabitat particularities, quercus, forest conservation |
| url | https://www.afrjournal.org/index.php/afr/article/view/466 |
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