https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/626022
標題: | Climate and soil differentially affect species, trait and diversity patterns of woody overstorey and fern understorey in a subtropical forest along an elevation gradient in Taiwan | 作者: | Helsen K Shen Y.-C Lin T.-Y Chen C.-F Huang C.-M CHING-FENG LI Zelený D. |
關鍵字: | ferns; forest overstorey; forest understorey; functional diversity; functional traits; lycophytes; species richness; subtropical montane cloud forest; trait–environment relationship | 公開日期: | 2022 | 卷: | 33 | 期: | 3 | 來源出版物: | Journal of Vegetation Science | 摘要: | Questions: Although the relative importance of climate in abiotic filtering is higher for woody than for herbaceous species assemblages, it is unclear whether this pattern is also reflected between the woody overstorey and herbaceous understorey of forests. The understorey might respond more to small-scale soil variation, next to experiencing additional abiotic filtering through overstorey effects on light and litter quality. We explored the proportional importance of climate and soil on the species, trait and (functional) diversity patterns of both the forest overstorey and fern and lycophyte understorey. Location: Subtropical forest along an elevational gradient from 850 to 2100 m a.s.l. in northern Taiwan. Methods: We measured nine functional traits expected to respond to soil nutrient or climatic stress for woody overstorey species and understorey ferns and lycophytes. Next, we performed parallel constrained ordinations on over- and understorey species and trait composition, and multiple regression for species and functional diversity, using measured climate proxies and soil variables as predictors. Results: Climate was more important than soil in predicting the species composition of both vegetation layers and trait composition of the understorey. The stronger than expected effect of climate for the understorey was likely due to fern and lycophytes’ higher vulnerability to drought, while the higher importance of soil for the overstorey trait composition seemed driven by deciduous species. The environmental drivers affected different response traits in both vegetation layers, and the overstorey had additional effects on understorey traits, resuling in a disconnection of community-level trait values across layers. Interestingly, species and functional diversity patterns could be almost exclusively explained by climate effects for both layers. Conclusions: This study illustrates that abiotic filtering can differentially affect species, trait and diversity patterns and can be highly divergent for forest overstorey and fern understorey vegetation, and should consequently not be extrapolated across vegetation layers. © 2022 International Association for Vegetation Science. |
URI: | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85132979251&doi=10.1111%2fjvs.13130&partnerID=40&md5=d3c4e219455d90dbc477be455b3f158e https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/626022 |
ISSN: | 11009233 | DOI: | 10.1111/jvs.13130 |
顯示於: | 森林環境暨資源學系 |
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