Spatial Variability of Soil Properties in the Shortgrass Steppe: The Relative Importance of Topography, Grazing, Microsite, and Plant Species in Controlling Spatial Patterns

Ecosystems ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 422-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid C. Burke
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Variability ◽  
Soil Properties ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
Spatial Patterns ◽  
Shortgrass Steppe ◽  
Relative Importance

Effect of Slope Mesorelief on the Spatial Variability of Soil Properties and Vegetation Index Based on Remote Sensing Data

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (9) ◽  
pp. 1329-1337
Author(s):  
N. V. Gopp ◽  
T. V. Nechaeva ◽  
O. A. Savenkov ◽  
N. V. Smirnova ◽  
V. V. Smirnov
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Spatial Variability ◽  
Soil Properties ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Remote Sensing Data ◽  
Sensing Data

Spatial Variability of Rainfed Wheat Production Under the Influence of Topography and Soil Properties in Loess-Derived Soils, Northern Iran

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 597-608
Author(s):  
Mohammad Ajami ◽  
Ahmad Heidari ◽  
Farhad Khormali ◽  
Mojtaba Zeraatpisheh ◽  
Manouchehr Gorji ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Variability ◽  
Soil Properties ◽  
Northern Iran ◽  
Wheat Production ◽  
Rainfed Wheat

scholarly journals Effect of Soil Diversity on Forest Plant Species Abundance: A Case Study from Central-European Highlands

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 534
Author(s):  
Pavel Samec ◽  
Jiří Volánek ◽  
Miloš Kučera ◽  
Pavel Cudlín
Keyword(s):  
Soil Properties ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
Plant Diversity ◽  
Species Abundance ◽  
Plant Distribution ◽  
Soil Diversity ◽  
Abiotic Environment ◽  
Soil Group ◽  
Biogeographical Regions ◽  
Forest Distribution

Plant distribution is most closely associated with the abiotic environment. The abiotic environment affects plant species’ abundancy unevenly. The asymmetry is further deviated by human interventions. Contrarily, soil properties preserve environmental influences from the anthropogenic perturbations. The study examined the supra-regional similarities of soil effects on plant species’ abundance in temperate forests to determine: (i) spatial relationships between soil property and forest-plant diversity among geographical regions; (ii) whether the spatial dependencies among compared forest-diversity components are influenced by natural forest representation. The spatial dependence was assessed using geographically weighted regression (GWR) of soil properties and plant species abundance from forest stands among 91 biogeographical regions in the Czech Republic (Central Europe). Regional soil properties and plant species abundance were acquired from 7550 national forest inventory plots positioned in a 4 × 4 km grid. The effect of natural forests was assessed using linear regression between the sums of squared GWR residues and protected forest distribution in the regions. Total diversity of forest plants is significantly dependent on soil-group representation. The soil-group effect is more significant than that of bedrock bodies, most of all in biogeographical regions with protected forest representation >50%. Effects of soil chemical properties were not affected by protected forest distribution. Spatial dependency analysis separated biogeographical regions of optimal forest plant diversity from those where inadequate forest-ecosystem diversity should be increased alongside soil diversity.

scholarly journals Spatial variability in soil properties on slow-forming terraces in the Andes region of Ecuador

2003 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerd Dercon ◽  
Jozef Deckers ◽  
Gerard Govers ◽  
Jean Poesen ◽  
Henrry Sánchez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Variability ◽  
Soil Properties ◽  
The Andes ◽  
Andes Region
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