Prehistoric soil and vegetation development on Bodmin Moor, southwestern England

Nature ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 297 (5865) ◽  
pp. 397-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Maltby ◽  
C. J. Caseldine
Keyword(s):  
Vegetation Development

Lichen Colonization and Recolonization of Two Recently Deglaciated Zones in the Maritime Antarctic

1995 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 485-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Valladares ◽  
Leopoldo G. Sancho
Keyword(s):  
Snow Cover ◽  
South Shetland Islands ◽  
Homogeneous Distribution ◽  
Maritime Antarctic ◽  
Vegetation Development ◽  
Lichen Cover ◽  
Glacier Front ◽  
Ice Retreat ◽  
Snow Cover Duration ◽  
Rock Size

AbstractThe stages of vegetation development close to two glacier fronts on two of the South Shetland Islands (Livingston and Robert) within the Maritime Antarctic were studied with special reference to saxicolous lichens. A lichenometric study of the crustose lichen Caloplaca sublobulata was carried out at both sites. On the moraine of Livingston Island, rock size played an important role in lichen development, explaining most of the differences observed in the diameter of C. sublobulata, the number of species, and the percentage of cover among the rocks studied. On Robert Island, the distance from the glacier front was associated with the lichen cover of the rocks but not with diameter of C. sublobulata This homogeneous distribution of C. sublobulata thallus size on the Robert Island study area points to a simultaneous recolonization of the whole zone by this lichen. The lichen development in the area studied on Robert Island seems to have been drastically affected by fluctuations in the persistence of snow cover following glacier front retreat. Tentative associations between ice retreat and colonization, on the o e hand, and changes in snow cover duration and the dynamic processes of extinction and recolonization, on the other, are suggested from comparison of the two zones.

Recovery of Degraded Areas in Vale do Paraíba, São Paulo, Brazil: Performance Indicators

2010 ◽  
Vol 107 ◽  
pp. 27-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Regina de Aquino-Silva ◽  
Marcos Roberto Simão ◽  
Denise da Silva Santos ◽  
Eduardo Jorge de Brito Bastos
Keyword(s):  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Vegetation Structure ◽  
Bank Erosion ◽  
Sand Mining ◽  
Chemical Factor ◽  
Vegetation Development ◽  
Aluminum Iron ◽  
Negative Factors ◽  
Soil Indicators ◽  
Iron And Manganese

The aim of restoration is recompose a new vegetation structure in order to obtain benefits such as the containment of bank erosion, reestablishment of a hydric and nutrient regime, and increase the diversity of species. The present paper evaluated the development of the vegetation introduced as ciliar forest around a mining lagoon through establishing indicators based on the vegetation structure, physic-chemical characteristics of the soil and the water. Results show that the indicators of vegetation, like dying of species and the covering of top were classified as negative factors. Regarding vegetation development, it was considered positive when individuals out of inundation points were analyzed. According to soil indicators, chemical factor pH acid suggests intoxication by aluminum, iron and manganese impeding development of the vegetation in the local. Topographic factor also caused erosion and dying/extinction of species localized in declining points and carried nutrients to the inundation point and finally to the sand mining pool.

Vegetation development of sown grass margins in arable fields under a countrywide agri-environment scheme

2006 ◽  
Vol 132 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Nigel R. Critchley ◽  
John A. Fowbert ◽  
Ann J. Sherwood ◽  
Richard F. Pywell
Keyword(s):  
Vegetation Development ◽  
Arable Fields

Sedimentology, faunal content and pollen record of Middle Pleistocene palustrine and lagoonal sediments from the Peri-Adriatic basin, Abruzzi, eastern central Italy

2016 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierluigi Pieruccini ◽  
Claudio Di Celma ◽  
Federico Di Rita ◽  
Donatella Magri ◽  
Giorgio Carnevale ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Central Italy ◽  
Freshwater Wetlands ◽  
Middle Pleistocene ◽  
Pollen Record ◽  
Vegetation Development ◽  
Oxygen Isotope Stage ◽  
Open Forest ◽  
Facies Succession

AbstractA 25 m-thick outcrop section exposed at Torre Mucchia, on the sea-cliff north of Ortona, eastern central Italy, comprises a rare Middle Pleistocene succession of shallow-water and paralic sediments along the western Adriatic Sea. An integrated study of the section, including facies and microfacies analyses, and characterization of paleobiological associations (mollusks, fishes, ostracods, foraminifers and pollen), enable a detailed reconstruction of the paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic conditions during deposition. The shallow-water deposits include a transgressive, deepening- and fining-upward shoreface to offshore-transition facies succession overlain by a regressive shoreface-foreshore sandstone body with an erosive base and a rooted and pedogenically altered horizon at the top that imply deposition during sea-level fall. This forced regressive unit is overlain by paralic strata forming a transgressive succession comprising palustrine carbonates and back-barrier lagoonal mudstones. The palustrine carbonates exhibit some of the typical features encountered in palustrine limestones deposited within seasonal freshwater wetlands (marl prairies). Following the sea-level rising trend, the freshwater marshes were abruptly replaced by a barrier-lagoon system that allowed deposition of the overlying mud-rich unit. Within these deposits, the faunal assemblages are consistent with a low-energy brackish environment characterized by a relatively high degree of confinement. The pollen record documents the development of open forest vegetation dominated by Pinus and accompanied by a number of mesophilous and thermophilous tree taxa, whose composition supports a tentative correlation with Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 17. The new pollen record from Torre Mucchia improves our understanding of the vegetation development in the Italian Peninsula during the Middle Pleistocene and sheds new light on the role played by the most marked glacial periods in determining the history of tree taxa.

Treatment of swine effluent mixed with domestic wastewater and vegetation development in monoculture and polyculture horizontal subsurface flow wetlands

2021 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 106432
Author(s):  
Luis Carlos Sandoval Herazo ◽  
Florentina Zurita ◽  
Graciela Nani ◽  
Oscar Andrés Del Ángel-Coronel ◽  
Fidel Alejandro Aguilar Aguilar
Keyword(s):  
Subsurface Flow ◽  
Domestic Wastewater ◽  
Vegetation Development ◽  
Swine Effluent ◽  
Horizontal Subsurface Flow

scholarly journals Effect of tephra depth on vegetation development in areas affected by volcanism

Plant Ecology ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 189 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-313
Author(s):  
Mariela Gómez-Romero ◽  
Roberto Lindig-Cisneros ◽  
Sebastiana Galindo-Vallejo
Keyword(s):  
Vegetation Development

scholarly journals Assessing the large-scale impacts of environmental change using a coupled hydrology and soil erosion model

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 687-703 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joris P. C. Eekhout ◽  
Wilco Terink ◽  
Joris de Vente
Keyword(s):  
Soil Erosion ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Sediment Yield ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Catchment Scale ◽  
Time Step ◽  
Vegetation Development ◽  
Erosion Model ◽  
Complete Representation ◽  
Large Catchment

Abstract. Assessing the impacts of environmental change on soil erosion and sediment yield at the large catchment scale remains one of the main challenges in soil erosion modelling studies. Here, we present a process-based soil erosion model, based on the integration of the Morgan–Morgan–Finney erosion model in a daily based hydrological model. The model overcomes many of the limitations of previous large-scale soil erosion models, as it includes a more complete representation of crucial processes like surface runoff generation, dynamic vegetation development, and sediment deposition, and runs at the catchment scale with a daily time step. This makes the model especially suited for the evaluation of the impacts of environmental change on soil erosion and sediment yield at regional scales and over decadal periods. The model was successfully applied in a large catchment in southeastern Spain. We demonstrate the model's capacity to perform impact assessments of environmental change scenarios, specifically simulating the scenario impacts of intra- and inter-annual variations in climate, land management, and vegetation development on soil erosion and sediment yield.

scholarly journals Walker and Syers enter the critical zone: Integrating decadal scale root development with longer term soil development to understand terrestrial nutrient cycling

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Hauser ◽  
Jon Chorover ◽  
Charles Cook ◽  
Daniel Markewitz ◽  
Craig Rasmussen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Soil Development ◽  
Critical Zone ◽  
Mineral Weathering ◽  
Forest Growth ◽  
Vegetation Development ◽  
Nutrient Sources ◽  
Development Models ◽  
Rooting Zone ◽  
Plant Soil ◽  
Decadal Scale

Most terrestrial nutrient sources are hypothesized to shift in dominance from mineral- to organic matter (OM)-derived over millennia. We investigated how overlaying this hypothesis with plant rooting dynamics that can feedback to soil development offers insight into ecosystem functioning. To test the hypothesis that the nutritional importance of OM as mineral weathering proceeds is mediated by rooting system nutrient economies that vary with vegetation development, we paired litterfall decay experiments with soil mineralogical data from diverse forests across the Critical Zone (CZ) Observatory Network. We demonstrate that sources of phosphorus shift from OM-bound stocks to minerals as the rooting zone expands during the transition from mid to late stages of forest growth. Root-driven, plant-soil feedbacks thus can prompt inconsistencies with soil development models that posit a unidirectional transition from mineral to organic nutrient dominance, and illuminate how forest growth and land use influence nutrient bioavailability in Earth’s CZ.

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