The role of soil pH in linking groundwater flow and plant species density in boreal forest landscapes

Ecography

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 515-524

  Zinko, Ursula ^a   Dynesius, Mats ^a   Nilsson, Christer ^a   Seibert, Jan ^b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; GROUNDWATER FLOW; PH; POPULATION DENSITY; SOIL PROPERTY; VASCULAR PLANT; VEGETATION MAPPING;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 33845582063     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-7590.2006.04581.x     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Ahti, T. et al. 1968. Vegetation zones and their sections in northwestern Europe. - Ann. Bot. Fenn. 5: 169-211.
2. Benayas, J. M. R. 1995. Patterns of diversity in the strata of boreal montane forest in British Columbia. - J. Veg. Sci. 6: 95-98.
3. Benayas, J. M. R. and Scheiner, S. M. 1993. Diversity patterns of wet meadows along geochemical gradients in central Spain. - J. Veg. Sci. 4: 103-108.
4. Bennett, K. D. 1997. Evolution and ecology: the pace of life. - Cambridge Univ. Press.
5. Beven, K. J. and Kirkby, M. J. 1979. A physically based variable contributing area model of basin hydrology. - Hydrol. Sci. J. 24: 43-69.
6. Brunet, J. et al. 1997. Regional differences in floristic change in south Swedish oak forests as related to soil chemistry and land use. - J. Veg. Sci. 8: 329-336.
7. Chytry, M. et al. 2003. Local and regional patterns of species richness in central European vegetation types along the pH/calcium gradient. - Folia. Geobot. 38: 429-442.
8. Colwell, R. K. and Lees, D. C. 2000. The mid-domain effect: geometric constraints on the geography of species richness. - Trends Ecol. Evol. 15: 70-76.
9. Dupré, C. et al. 2002. Species richness in deciduous forests: effects of species pools and environmental variables. - J. Veg. Sci. 13: 505-516.
10. Engelmark, O. and Hytteborn, H. 1999. Coniferous forests. - Acta Phytogeogr. Suec. 84: 55-74.
11. Ewald, J. 2003. The calcareous riddle: why are there so many calciphilous species in the central European flora? - Folia Geobot. 38: 357-366.
12. Giesler, R. et al. 1998. Soil chemistry and plants in Fennoscandian boreal forest as exemplified by a local gradient. - Ecology 79: 119-137.
13. Gough, L. et al. 2000. Vascular plant species richness in Alaskan arctic tundra: the importance of soil pH. - J. Ecol. 88: 54-66.
14. Gould, W. A. and Walker, M. D. 1999. Plant communities and landscape diversity along a Canadian arctic river. - J. Veg. Sci. 10: 537-548.
15. Grime, J. P. 1979. Plant strategies and vegetation processes. - Wiley.
16. Grubb, P. J. 1987. Global trends in species-richness in terrestrial vegetation: a view from the northern hemisphere. - In: Gee, J. H. R. and Giller, P. S. (eds), Organization of communities past and present. Blackwell, pp. 98-118.
17. Hewitt, G. 2000. The genetic legacy of the Quaternary ice ages. - Nature 405: 907-913.
18. Hintze, J. L. 1996. Pass 6.0. User's guide. - Number Cruncher Statistical Systems.
19. Hjerdt, K. N. et al. 2004. A new topographic index to quantify downslope controls on local drainage. - Water Res. Res. 40: W05602.
20. Högberg, P. et al. 1990. Shoot nitrate reductase activities of field-layer species in different forest types. - Scand. J. For. Res. 5: 449-456.
21. Hylander, K. and Dynesius, M. 2006. Causes of the large variation in bryophyte species richness and composition among boreal streamside forests? - J. Veg. Sci. 17: 333-346.
22. Kaye, J. P. and Hart, S. C. 1997. Competition for nitrogen between plants and soil microorganisms. - Trends Ecol. Evol. 12: 139-143.
23. Krok, T. O. B. N. and Almquist, S. 2001. Svensk flora: fanerogamer och ormbunksväxter. - Liber Utbildning.
24. Lundqvist, J. 1969. Beskrivning till jordartskarta över Jämtlands län. - Sveriges Geologiska Undersökning, Serie Ca 45: 1-418.
25. Moore, I. D. et al. 1991. Digital terrain modeling: a review of hydrological, geomorphological, and biological applications. - Hydrol. Proc. 5: 3-30.
26. Nilsson, L. O. et al. 2005. Growth and biomass of mycorrhizal mycelia in coniferous forests along short natural nutrient gradients. - New Phytol. 165: 613-622.
27. Nordin, A. et al. 2001. Soil nitrogen form and plant nitrogen uptake along a boreal forest productivity gradient. - Oecologia 129: 125-132.
28. Palmer, M. 1994. Variation in species richness: towards a unification of hypotheses. - Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 29: 511-530.
29. Palmer, M. W. et al. 2003. Species richness and soil reaction in a northeastern Oklahoma landscape. - Folia Geobot. 38: 381-389.
30. Pärtel, M. 2002. Local plant diversity patterns and evolutionary history at the regional scale. - Ecology 83: 2361-2366.
31. Pärtel, M. et al. 1996. The species pool and its relation to species richness: evidence from Estonian plant communities. - Oikos 75: 111-117.
32. Peet, R. K. et al. 2003. Variation in species richness and species pool size across a pH gradient in forests of the southern blue ridge mountains. - Folia Geobot. 38: 391-401.
33. Quinn, P. et al. 1991. The prediction of hillslope flow paths for distributed hydrological modeling using digital terrain models. - Hydrol. Proc. 5: 59-79.
34. Quinn, P. F. et al. 1995. The ln(a/tanb) index: how to calculate it and how to use it within the Topmodel framework. - Hydrol. Proc. 9: 161-182.
35. Raab, B. and Vedin, H. 1995. The national atlas of Sweden: climate, lakes and rivers. - SNA.
36. Read, D. J. 1991. Mycorrhizas in ecosystems - nature's response to the "law of the minimum". - In: Hawksworth, D. L. (ed.), Frontiers in mycology: honorary and general lectures from the fourth International Mycological Congress, Regensburg, Germany, 1990. CAB International, pp. 101-130.
37. Redei, T. et al. 2003. On the possible role of local effects on the species richness of acidic and calcareous rock grasslands in northern Hungary. - Folia Geobot. 38: 453-467.
38. Ricklefs, R. E. 1987. Community diversity: relative roles of local and regional processes. - Science 235: 167-171.
39. Schuster, B. and Diekmann, M. 2003. Changes in species density along the soil pH gradient - evidence from German plant communities. - Folia Geobot. 38: 367-379.
40. Sokal, R. R. and Rohlf, F. J. 1995. Biometry, 3rd ed. - Freeman.
41. Sørensen, R. et al. 2006. On the calculation of the topographic wetness index: evaluation of different methods based on field observations. - Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 10: 101-112.
42. Tamm, O. 1964. Determination of nutrient requirements of forest stands. - Int. Rev. For. Res. 1: 115-170.
43. Tamm, O. 1991. Nitrogen in terrestrial ecosystems. - Springer.
44. Tarboton, D. G. 1997. A new method for the determination of flow directions and upslope areas in grid digital elevation models. - Water Res. Res. 33: 309-319.
45. Taylor, D. R. et al. 1990. On the relationship between r/K selection and environmental carrying-capacity: a new habitat templet for plant life-history strategies. - Oikos 58: 239-250.
46. Trexler, J. C. and Travis, J. 1993. Nontraditional regression analyses. - Ecology 74: 1629-1637.
47. Tyler, G. 2003. Some ecophysiological and historical approaches to species richness and calcicole/calcifuge behaviour: contribution to a debate. - Folia Geobot. 38: 419-428.
48. Watts, W. A. 1988. Europe. - In: Huntley, B. and Webb, T. (eds), Vegetation history. Kluwer, pp. 155-192.
49. Wohlgemuth, T. and Gigon, A. 2003. Calcicole plant diversity in Switzerland may reflect a variety of habitat templets. - Folia Geobot. 38: 443-452.
50. Wolock, D. M. and McCabe, G. J. 1995. Comparison of single and multiple flow direction algorithms for computing topographic parameters in Topmodel. - Water Res. Res. 31: 1315-1324.
51. Zinko, U. et al. 2005. Plant species numbers predicted by a topography based groundwater-flow index. - Ecosystems 8: 430-441.
52. Zobel, M. 1992. Plant-species coexistence: the role of historical, evolutionary and ecological factors. - Oikos 65: 314-320.
53. Zobel, M. et al. 1998. Species pool: the concept, its determination and significance for community restoration. - Appl. Veg. Sci. 1: 55-66.