Water or soil—What is the dominant driver controlling the vegetation pattern of degraded shallow mountain peatlands?

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (12) ◽  
pp. 1437-1448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bartłomiej Glina ◽  
Agnieszka Piernik ◽  
Piotr Hulisz ◽  
Łukasz Mendyk ◽  
Klara Tomaszewska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vegetation Pattern ◽  
Mountain Peatlands

scholarly journals A fast–slow model of banded vegetation pattern formation in drylands

2020 ◽  
Vol 410 ◽  
pp. 132534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Punit Gandhi ◽  
Sara Bonetti ◽  
Sarah Iams ◽  
Amilcare Porporato ◽  
Mary Silber
Keyword(s):  
Pattern Formation ◽  
Vegetation Pattern ◽  
Banded Vegetation

Carbon accumulation rates recorded in the last 150 years in tropical high mountain peatlands of the Atlantic Rainforest, SE - Brazil

2017 ◽  
Vol 579 ◽  
pp. 439-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lúcio F. Lourençato ◽  
Pedro P. Caldeira ◽  
Marcelo C. Bernardes ◽  
Andressa C. Buch ◽  
Daniel C. Teixeira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Accumulation ◽  
Atlantic Rainforest ◽  
High Mountain ◽  
Accumulation Rates ◽  
Se Brazil ◽  
Carbon Accumulation Rates ◽  
Mountain Peatlands

scholarly journals A Lateglacial palaeosol cover in the Altdarss area, southern Baltic Sea coast (northeast Germany): investigations on pedology, geochronology and botany

2006 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Kaiser ◽  
A. Barthelmes ◽  
S. Czakó Pap ◽  
A. Hilgers ◽  
W. Janke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Soil Cover ◽  
Younger Dryas ◽  
Soil Surface ◽  
Vegetation Pattern ◽  
Buried Soils ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Buried Soil ◽  
Nw Europe ◽  
Aeolian Sands ◽  
Sea Coast

AbstractA new site with Lateglacial palaeosols covered by 0.8 - 2.4 m thick aeolian sands is presented. The buried soils were subjected to multidisciplinary analyses (pedology, micromorphology, geochronology, dendrology, palynology, macrofossils). The buried soil cover comprises a catena from relatively dry (’Nano’-Podzol, Arenosol) via moist (Histic Gleysol, Gleysol) to wet conditions (Histosol). Dry soils are similar to the so-called Usselo soil, as described from sites in NW Europe and central Poland. The buried soil surface covers ca. 3.4 km2. Pollen analyses date this surface into the late Allerød. Due to a possible contamination by younger carbon, radiocarbon dates are too young. OSL dates indicate that the covering by aeolian sands most probably occurred during the Younger Dryas. Botanical analyses enables the reconstruction of a vegetation pattern typical for the late Allerød. Large wooden remains of pine and birch were recorded.

Vegetation, hydrology, and development of a coastal mire in Hokkaido, Japan, affected by flooding and tephra deposition

2001 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Hotes ◽  
Peter Poschlod ◽  
Hiroshige Sakai ◽  
Takashi Inoue
Keyword(s):  
Sea Water ◽  
Ionic Composition ◽  
Plant Macrofossils ◽  
Vegetation Pattern ◽  
Water Levels ◽  
Myrica Gale ◽  
Mineral Deposition ◽  
Volcanic Ejecta ◽  
Induced Changes ◽  
Flooding Events

Mires in coastal lowlands in Hokkaido, northern Japan, have repeatedly been affected by flooding events and tephra (aerially transported volcanic ejecta) deposition during their development. Vegetation, hydrology, and stratigraphy of Kiritappu Mire in eastern Hokkaido were investigated along two transects and are discussed in relation to disturbance by mineral deposition. The vegetation pattern showed little relation to past geologic events. Five plant communities, two of which (A and C) could be further divided into subgroups, were distinguished (A, Alnus japonica - Spiraea salicifolia community; B, Sasa chartacea community; C, Myrica gale var. tomentosa - Sphagnum fuscum community; D, Carex lyngbyei community; E, Carex subspathacea - Aster tripolium community). Water levels, pH, electric conductivity, and ionic composition of groundwater and surface water were measured in communities A-C. Mean water levels were similar in communities A and C; in community B, it was lower. The pH was higher in community A than in communities B and C. Ion concentrations were influenced by sea water at some sites. Plant macrofossils and ash contents of 31 cores were analysed. Sedge roots were the dominant peat component, often mixed with remains of Phragmites australis, Sphagnum spp., and Polytrichum juniperinum var. strictum. Ash contents were high, and up to nine different mineral layers consisting of tephra, sand, silt, and clay were detected. In some cases, mineral deposition induced changes in the macrofossil composition of the peat. However, in a greater number of cases, no changes in the macrofossil composition were found at the mineral layers, and most shifts were not related to mineral deposition.Key words: mire, vegetation, hydrology, disturbance, flooding, tephra.

The Environmental Relations of Vegetation Pattern on Chenier Beach Ridges on Bathurst Island, Northern Territory

1993 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 275 ◽  
Author(s):  
RJ Fensham
Keyword(s):  
Sea Water ◽  
Acid Soils ◽  
Soil Nutrient ◽  
Vegetation Pattern ◽  
High Concentration ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Beach Ridges ◽  
Nutrient Levels ◽  
Environmental Relations ◽  
Monsoon Rainforest

Radiocarbon dates confirm a chronological sequence for late Holocene beach ridges at Wangiti Beach on Bathurst Island. The vegetation on these beach ridges can be clearly related to topography and distance from the sea. Monsoon rainforest occurs on the fore-dunes where the nutrient levels of the young sediments are relatively high. The mid-dunes support woodland dominated by Melalueca viridiflora and have nutrient-poor acid soils. Vegetation with a high component of monsoon rainforest species occupies the rear dunes, which have a high concentration of seawater macronutrient cations despite their older age than more seaward dunes. The relatively low elevation of the rear dunes supports the suggestion that soil nutrient levels are enriched by sea water or marine sediments during infrequent inundation events such as those during cyclones.

scholarly journals Dynamics and systematic position of Thelypteridi-Phragmitetum Kuiper 1957

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 331-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Tomaszewicz
Keyword(s):  
Vegetation Pattern ◽  
Diagnostic Value ◽  
Systematic Position ◽  
Plant Succession ◽  
Zonal Vegetation ◽  
Or Groups

The author discusses the arising of <i>Thelypteridi-Phragmitetum</i> phytocenoses, their place in the zonal vegetation pattern and in plant succession. The diagnostic value of <i>Dryopteris thelypteris</i> and the syntaxonomic position of <i>Thelypteridi-Phragmitetum</i> are explained. This association is classified to the alliance <i>Phragmition</i>. A synthetic table is given with 480 phytosociological records representing the association studied, and a map of distribution of its sites or groups of sites reported to date in Poland.

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