Influential factors and processes in post-fire spatial changes of soil seed banks structure in Mediterranean saline steppe
Mediterranean saline steppes hold plant communities adapted to saline soils and severe droughts, with a spatial structure tipycal of semi-arid environments: vegetation is distributed in multi-specific patches on a large bare-soil matrix. Such a structure exerts a strong effect on spatio-temporal pat...
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| author | Pablo Ferrandis Álvaro Sánchez Virosta José María Herranz Esmeralda Martínez Duro |
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| description | Mediterranean saline steppes hold plant communities adapted to saline soils and severe droughts, with a spatial structure tipycal of semi-arid environments: vegetation is distributed in multi-specific patches on a large bare-soil matrix. Such a structure exerts a strong effect on spatio-temporal patterns of the soil seed bank, which tends to accumulate under plant patches. In this study, we evaluated the recover ability of soil seed banks and possible changes in their spatial patterns during the earliest post-fire phases in a saline steppe, when the extant vegetation was temporally removed in the habitat. The study was carried out in El Saladar de Cordovilla (Tobarra, Albacete) after a fire in the late summer of 2011. To do this we proceeded to track and collect soil samples during the subsequent year and a half to fire. The seed in samples were identified and the results were subjected to various statistical analyses. The results showed that 18 months were not enough to recovery the original composition of soil seed bank in continental saline steppes, because after a fire the plant patches structure disappear temporarily, at least from original places, so their effect on spatial patterns of soil seed bank distribution are temporarily deleted. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e9f33621fb154c02a0fd989c270226c52022-12-21T18:46:55ZengUniversidad de Pinar del Río "Hermanos Saíz Montes de Oca"Revista Cubana de Ciencias Forestales2310-34692015-06-0131314444Influential factors and processes in post-fire spatial changes of soil seed banks structure in Mediterranean saline steppePablo Ferrandis0Álvaro Sánchez Virosta1José María Herranz2Esmeralda Martínez Duro3Instituto Botánico de la Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Jardín Botánico de Castilla La Mancha.Instituto Botánico de la Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Jardín Botánico de Castilla La Mancha.Instituto Botánico de la Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Jardín Botánico de Castilla La Mancha.Instituto Botánico de la Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Jardín Botánico de Castilla La Mancha.Mediterranean saline steppes hold plant communities adapted to saline soils and severe droughts, with a spatial structure tipycal of semi-arid environments: vegetation is distributed in multi-specific patches on a large bare-soil matrix. Such a structure exerts a strong effect on spatio-temporal patterns of the soil seed bank, which tends to accumulate under plant patches. In this study, we evaluated the recover ability of soil seed banks and possible changes in their spatial patterns during the earliest post-fire phases in a saline steppe, when the extant vegetation was temporally removed in the habitat. The study was carried out in El Saladar de Cordovilla (Tobarra, Albacete) after a fire in the late summer of 2011. To do this we proceeded to track and collect soil samples during the subsequent year and a half to fire. The seed in samples were identified and the results were subjected to various statistical analyses. The results showed that 18 months were not enough to recovery the original composition of soil seed bank in continental saline steppes, because after a fire the plant patches structure disappear temporarily, at least from original places, so their effect on spatial patterns of soil seed bank distribution are temporarily deleted.http://cfores.upr.edu.cu/index.php/cfores/article/view/105parches de vegetaciónmicrohábitatssucesión secundaria. |
| spellingShingle | Pablo Ferrandis Álvaro Sánchez Virosta José María Herranz Esmeralda Martínez Duro Influential factors and processes in post-fire spatial changes of soil seed banks structure in Mediterranean saline steppe Revista Cubana de Ciencias Forestales parches de vegetación microhábitats sucesión secundaria. |
| title | Influential factors and processes in post-fire spatial changes of soil seed banks structure in Mediterranean saline steppe |
| title_full | Influential factors and processes in post-fire spatial changes of soil seed banks structure in Mediterranean saline steppe |
| title_fullStr | Influential factors and processes in post-fire spatial changes of soil seed banks structure in Mediterranean saline steppe |
| title_full_unstemmed | Influential factors and processes in post-fire spatial changes of soil seed banks structure in Mediterranean saline steppe |
| title_short | Influential factors and processes in post-fire spatial changes of soil seed banks structure in Mediterranean saline steppe |
| title_sort | influential factors and processes in post fire spatial changes of soil seed banks structure in mediterranean saline steppe |
| topic | parches de vegetación microhábitats sucesión secundaria. |
| url | http://cfores.upr.edu.cu/index.php/cfores/article/view/105 |
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