Nutrient supply in undrained and drained Calthion meadows

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 829-838

  Van Duren, I C ^a   Pegtel, D M ^a   Aerts, B A ^a   Inberg, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Drainage; Fen peat; Fertilization; Macronutrient deficiency; Management; Plant species richness; Restoration

Indexed keywords

FEN; MEADOW; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; PEAT SOIL;

CALTHION;

EID: 0031426743     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3237027     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Bakker, J.P. 1989. Nature management by grazing and cutting. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
2. Bakker, J.P. 1993. Nature management in Dutch grasslands. In: Haggar, R.J. & Peel, S. (eds.) Grassland management and nature conservation, pp. 115-124. Occasional Symposium No. 28, British Grassland Society, Aberystwyth.
3. Bakker, J.P. & Grootjans, A.P. 1991. Potential for regeneration in the middle course of the Drentsche A brook valley (The Netherlands). Verh. Ges. Ökol. 10: 249-263.
4. Berendse, F., Oomes, M.J.M., Altena, H.J. & de Visser, W. 1994. A comparative study of nitrogen flows in two similar meadows affected by different groudwater levels. J. Appl. Ecol. 31: 40-48.
5. Berendse, F., Oomes, M.J.M, Altena, H.J. & Elberse W.Th. 1992. Experiments on the restoration of species-rich meadows in The Netherlands. Biol. Conserv. 62: 59-65.
6. Boeye, D., Verhagen, B., van Haesebroek, V. & Verheyen, R.F. 1996. Nutrient limitation in species-rich lowland fens. J. Veg. Sci. 8: 415-424.
7. Boyer, M.L.H. & Wheeler, B.D. 1989. Vegetation patterns in spring fed calcareous fens: calcite precipitation and constraints on fertility. J. Ecol. 77: 597-609.
8. Breen, C.M., Rogers, K.H. & Ashton, P.J. 1988. Vegetation processes in swamps and Hooded plains. In: Symoens, J.J. (ed.) Vegetation of inland waters, pp. 223-247. Kluwer, Dordrecht.
9. Caraco, N.F., Cole, J.J. & Likens, G.E. 1989. Evidence for sulphate controlled phosphorus release from sediments of aquatic systems. Nature 341: 316-318.
10. Chapin, F.S. III. 1991. Effects of multiple environmental stresses on nutrient availability and use. In: Mooney, H.A., Winner, W.E. & Pell, E.J. (eds.) Responses of plants to multiple stresses, pp. 67-88. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
11. Day, P.R. 1965. Particle fractionation and particle size analysis. In: Black, C.A., Evans, D.D., White, J.L., Ensminger L.E. & Clark, F.E. (eds.) Methods of soil analysis. Physical and mineralogical properties including statistics of measurement and sampling, pp. 552-562. American Society of Agronomy, Inc., Madison, WI.
12. DeAngelis, D.L. 1992. Dynamics of nutrient cycling and food webs. Chapman & Hall, London.
13. DeLaune, R.D., Reddy, C.N. & Patrick, W.H.J. 1981. Organic matter decomposition in soil as influenced by pH and redox conditions. Soil Biol. Biochem. 13: 533-534.
14. de Mars, H. 1996. Chemical and physical dynamics of fen hydro-ecology. Doctoral Thesis, University of Utrecht.
15. Donahue, R.L., Miller, R.W. & Shickenna, J.C. 1983. Soils. An introduction to soils and plant growth. Prentice-Hall, Englewoods Cliffs, NJ.
16. Etherington, J.R. 1975. Environment and plant ecology. Wiley, New York, NY.
17. Giller, K.E. & Wheeler, B.D. 1986. Past peat cutting and present vegetation patterns in an undrained fen in the Norfolk Broadland. J. Ecol. 74: 219-247.
18. Giller, K.E. & Wheeler, B.D. 1988. Acidification and succession in a floodplain mire in the Norfolk Broads. J. Ecol. 76: 849-866.
19. Goodman, G.T. & Perkins, D.F. 1968. The role of mineral nutrients in Eriophorum communities. IV. Potassium supply as a limiting factor in an Eriophorum vaginatum community. J. Ecol. 56: 685-696.
20. Gough, M.W. & Marrs, R.H. 1990. A comparison of soil fertility between semi-natural and agricultural plant communities: Implications for the creation of species-rich grassland on abandoned agricultural land. Biol. Conserv. 51: 83-96.
21. Grime, J.P. 1979. Plant strategies and vegetation processes. Wiley & Sons, Chichester.
22. Grime, J.P. 1994. The role of plasticity in exploiting environmental heterogeneity. In: Caldwell, M.M. & Pearcy, R.W. (eds.) Exploitation of environmental heterogeneity by plants, pp. 1-19. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
23. Grootjans, A.P., Schipper, P.C. & van der Windt, H.J. 1985. Influence of drainage on N-mineralization and vegetation response in wet meadows I. Calthion palustris stands. Acta Oecol. Oecol. Plant. 6: 403-417.
24. Haag, R.W. 1974 Nutrient limitation to plant production in two tundra communities. Can. J. Bot. 52: 103-116.
25. Heathwaite, A.L. & Göttlich, K. (ed.) 1993. Mires: process, exploitation and conservation. Wiley & Sons, Chichester.
26. Heukels, H. & van der Meijden, R. 1983. Flora van Nederland. 20th ed. Wolters-Noordhoff, Groningen.
27. Hyati, A.A. & Proctor, M.C.F. 1991. Limiting nutrients in acid-mire vegetation: peat and plant analysis and plant responses to added nutrients. J. Ecol. 79: 75-95.
28. Koerselman, W. & Meuleman, A.F.M. 1996. The vegetation N:P ratio: a new tool to detect the nature of nutrient limitation. J. Appl. Ecol. 33: 1441-1450.
29. Koerselman, W. & Verhoeven, J.T.A. 1993. Eutrofiëring van laagvenen, interne of externe oorzaken? Landschap 10: 31-44.
30. Koerselman, W. & Verhoeven, J.T.A. 1995. Eutrophication of fen ecosystems; external and internal nutrient sources and restoration strategies. In: Wheeler, B.D., Shaw, S., Fojt, W. & Robertson, R.A. (eds.) Restoration of temperate wetlands, pp. 91-112. Wiley, Chichester.
31. Malmer, N. 1986. Vegetational gradients in relation to environmental conditions in northwestern European mires. Can. J. Bot. 64: 375-383.
32. Mitsch, W.J. & Gosselink, J.G. (eds.) 1993. Wetlands. 2nd ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, NY.
33. Murphy, J. & Riley, J.P. 1962. A modified single solution method for the determination of phosphate in natural waters. Anal. Chim. Acta 27: 31-36.
34. Olff, H. 1992. On the mechanisms of vegetation succession. Doctoral Thesis, University of Groningen.
35. Olff, H. & Bakker, J.P. 1991. Long term dynamics of standing crop, vegetation composition and species richness after cessation of fertilizer application to hay-fields. J. Appl. Ecol. 28: 1040-1052.
36. Olff, H. & Pegtel, D.M. 1994. Characterisation of the type and extent of nutrient limitation in grassland vegetation using a bioassay with intact sods. Plant Soil 163: 217-224.
37. Oomes, M.J.M., Olff, H. & Altena, H.J. 1996. Effects of vegetation management and raising the water table on nutrient dynamics and vegetation change in a wet grassland. J. Appl. Ecol. 33: 576-588.
38. Patrick Jr., W.H. & Khalid, R.A. 1974. Phosphate release and sorption by soils and sediments: effect of aerobic and anaerobic conditions. Science 186: 53-55.
39. Patrick Jr., W.H. & Tusneem, M.E. 1972. Nitrogen loss from flooded soil. Ecology 53: 735-737.
40. Pegtel, D.M. 1987. Soil fertility and the composition of seminatural grassland. In: van Andel, J., Bakker J.P. & Snaydon R.W. (eds.) Disturbance in grasslands, pp. 51-66. Junk Publishers, Dordrecht.
41. Pegtel, D.M., Bakker, J.P., Verweij, G.L. & Fresco, L.F.M. 1996. N, K and P deficiency in chronosequential cut summer-dry grasslands on gley podzol after cessation of fertilizer application. Plant Soil 178: 121-131.
42. Prentki, R.T., Gustafson, T.D. & Adams, M.S. 1978. Nutrient movements in lakeshore marshes. In: Good, R.E., Whigham D.F. & Simpson R.L. (eds.) Freshwater wetlands, pp. 169-194. Academic Press, New York, NY.
43. Reed, F.C.P. 1977. Plant species number, biomass accumulation and productivity of a differentially fertilized Michigan old field. Oecologia (Berl.) 30: 43-53.
44. Schaminée, J.H.J., Stortelder, A.H.F. & Weeda, E.J. 1996. De vegetatie van Nederland. 3. Plantengemeenschappen van graslanden, zomen en droge heiden. Opulus Press, Uppsala, Leiden.
45. Sissingh, H.A. 1969. Die Lösung der Bodenphosphorsäure bei wässerige Extraktion in Verbindung mit der Entwicklung einer neuen P-Wasser-Methode. Landwirtsch. Forsch. Sonderh. 23/11: 110-120.
46. Tilman, D. 1982. Resource competition and community structure. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
47. van der Woude, B.J., Pegtel, D.M. & Bakker, J.P. 1994. Nutrient limitation after long-term nitrogen fertilizer application in cut grasslands. J. Appl. Ecol. 31: 405-412.
48. van Diggelen, R., Grootjans, A.P. & Burkunk, R. 1994. Assessing restoration perspectives of disturbed brook valleys: the Gorecht area, The Netherlands. Rester. Ecol. 2: 87-96.
49. van Duren, I.C. & van Andel, J. In press. Nutrient deficiency in undisturbed, drained and rewetted peat soils tested with Holcus lanatus. Acta Bot. Neerl. 46.
50. van Duren, I.C., Boeye, D. & Grootjans, A.P. 1997. Nutrient limitations in an extant and drained poor fen: implications for restoration. Plant Ecology 133: 91-100.
51. Verhoeven, J.T.A., Schmitz, M.B. & Pons, T.L. 1988. Comparative demographic study of Carex rostrata Stokes, C. diandra Schrank and C. acutiformis Ehrh. in fens of different nutrient status. Aquat. Bot. 30: 95-108.
52. Verhoeven, J.T.A., van Beek, S., Dekker, M. & Storm, W. 1983. Nutrient dynamics in small mesotrophic fens surrounded by cultivated land. I. Production and nutrient uptake by vegetation in relation to the flow of eutrophicated ground water. Oecologia (Berl.) 60: 25-33.
53. Vermeer, J.G. & Berendse, F. 1983. The relationship between nutrient availability, shoot biomass and species richness in grassland and wetland communities. Vegetatio 53: 121-126.
54. von Liebig, J. 1840. Chemistry in its application to agriculture and physiology. Taylor and Walton, London.
55. Wassen, M.J., Olde Venterink, H.G.M. & de Swart, E.O.A.M. 1995. Nutrient concentrations in mire vegetation as a measure of nutrient limitation in mire ecosystems. J. Veg. Sci. 6: 5-16.
56. Waughman, G.J. 1980. Chemical aspects of the ecology of South German peatlands. J. Ecol. 68: 1025-1046.
57. Willems, J.H. 1993. Species composition and above ground phytomass in chalk grassland with different management. Vegetatio 52: 171-180.