Intensity of ecohydrological interactions in reclaimed Mediterranean slopes: Effects of run-off redistribution on plant performance

Ecohydrology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 836-844

  Espigares, Tíscar ^a   Merino Martín, Luis ^a,b,c   Moreno de Las Heras, Mariano ^a   Nicolau, José Manuel ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b BOTANIC GARDENS AND PARKS AUTHORITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biomass; Leaf water potential; Mining restoration; Novel ecosystems; Run off interruption

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE DEGREE; HERBACEOUS BIOMASS; LEAF WATER POTENTIAL; MINING RESTORATION; NOVEL ECOSYSTEMS; PLANT PERFORMANCE; RESTORATION PRACTICES; VEGETATION PATCHES;

BIOMASS; RESTORATION; SOIL MOISTURE;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

AGGRADATION; BIOMASS; COAL MINING; ECOHYDROLOGY; HERB; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; RUNOFF; SHRUB; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION;

SPAIN;

GENISTA; GENISTA SCORPIUS;

EID: 84885839995     PISSN: 19360584     EISSN: 19360592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eco.1307     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Aguiar MR, Sala OE. 1999. Patch structure, dynamics and implications for the functioning of arid ecosystems. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 14: 273-277.
2. Bautista S, Mayor AG, Bourakhouadar J, Bellot J. 2007. Plant spatial pattern predicts hillslope runoff and erosion in a semiarid Mediterranean landscape. Ecosystems 10: 987-998. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-007-9074-3.
3. Bhark EW, Small EE. 2003. Association between plant canopies and the spatial patterns of infiltration in shrubland and grassland of the Chihuahuan desert, New Mexico. Ecosystems 6: 185-196.
4. Brown PW, Tanner CB. 1981. Alfalfa water potential measurement: a comparison of the pressure chamber and leaf dew-point hygrometers. Crop Science 21: 240-244.
5. Calvo-Cases A, Boix-Fayos C, Imeson AC. 2003. Runoff generation, sediment movement and soil water behaviour on calcareous (limestone) slopes of some Mediterranean environments in southeast Spain. Geomorphology 50: 269-291.
6. Cammeraat LH, Imeson AC. 1999. The evolution and significance of soil-vegetation patterns following land abandonment and fire in Spain. Catena 37: 107-127.
7. Cassel DK, Kachanoski RG, Topp GC. 1994. Practical considerations for using a TDR cable tester. Soil Technology 7: 113-126.
8. Cornet AF, Montaña C, Delhoume JP, Lopez-Portillo J. 1992. Water flows and the dynamics of desert vegetation stripes. Landscape Boundaries. Consequences for Biotic Diversity and Ecological Flows, Hansen AJ, Di Castri F (eds). Springer-Verlag: Berlin; 327-345.
9. Dunkerley DL, Brown KJ. 1995. Runoff and runon areas in a patterned chenopod shrubland, arid western New South Wales, Australia: characteristics and origin. Journal of Arid Environments 30: 41-55.
10. Espigares T, Moreno-de Las Heras M, Nicolau JM. 2011. Performance of vegetation in reclaimed slopes affected by soil erosion. Restoration Ecology 19: 35-44. DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00546.x.
11. Garner W, Steinberger Y. 1989. A proposed mechanism for the formation of 'Fertile Islands' in the desert ecosystem. Journal of Arid Environments 16: 257-262.
12. Hancock GR, Willgoose GR. 2004. An experimental and computer simulation study of erosion in mine tailings dam wall. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 29: 457-475.
13. Hannah DM, Sadler JP, Wood PJ. 2007. Hydroecology and ecohydrology: a potential route forward? Hydrological Processes 21: 3385-3390. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.6888.
14. Hobbs RJ, Arico S, Aronson J, Baron JS, Bridgewater P, Cramer VA, Epstein PR, Ewel JJ, Klink CA, Lugo AE, Norton D, Ojima D, Richardson DM, Sanderson EW, Valladares F, Vilà M, Zamora R, Zobel M. 2006. Novel ecosystems: theoretical and management aspects of the new ecological world order. Global Ecology and Biogeography 15: 1-7. DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-822x.2006.00212.x.
15. Hobbs RJ, Higgs E, Harris JA. 2009. Novel ecosystems: implications for conservation and restoration. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 24: 599-605. DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2009.05.012.
16. Imeson AC, Prinsen HAM. 2004. Vegetation patterns as biological indicators for identifying runoff and sediment source and sink areas for semi-arid landscapes in Spain. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 14: 333-342. DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2004.01.033
17. van de Koppell J, Rietkerk M. 2004. Spatial interactions and resilience in arid ecosystems. American Naturalist 163: 113-121.
18. Lavee H, Imeson AC, Sarah P. 1998. The impact of climate change on geomorphology and desertification along a Mediterranean-arid transect. Land Degradation & Development 9: 407-422.
19. Ludwig JA, Tongway D. 1995. Spatial organisation of landscapes and its function in semi-arid woodlands, Australia. Landscape Ecology 10: 51-63.
20. Ludwig JA, Tongway D. 1996. Rehabilitation of semiarid landscapes in Australia. II. Restoring vegetation patches. Restoration Ecology 4: 398-406.
21. Ludwig JA, Tongway D, Marsden SG. 1999. Stripes, strands or stipples: modelling the influence of three landscape banding patterns on resource capture and productivity in semi-arid woodlands, Australia. Catena 37: 257-273.
22. Ludwig JA, Wilcox BP, Breshears DD, Tongway DJ, Imeson AC. 2005. Vegetation patches and runoff-erosion as interacting ecohydrological processes in semiarid landscapes. Ecology 86: 288-297.
23. Maestre FT, Cortina J. 2004. Insights into ecosystem composition and function in a sequence of degraded semiarid steppes. Restoration Ecology 12: 494-502.
24. Maestre FT, Bowker MA, Puche MD, Hinojosa MB, Martínez I, García-Palacios P, Castillo AP, Soliveres S, Luzuriaga, AL, Sánchez AM, Carreira JA, Gallardo A, Escudero A. 2009. Shrub encroachment can reverse desertification in semi-arid Mediterranean grasslands. Ecology Letters 12: 930-941. DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01352.x.
25. McCune B, Mefford MJ. 1997. Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data Version 3.18. MJM Software: Gleneden Beach (OR).
26. Merino-Martín L, Breshears DD, Moreno-de Las Heras M, Camilo Villegas J, Pérez-Domingo S, Espigares T, Nicolau JM. 2012a. Ecohydrological Source-sink interrelationships between vegetation patches and soil hydrological properties along a disturbance gradient reveal a restoration threshold. Restoration Ecology 20: 360-368. DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2011.00776.x.
27. Merino-Martín L, Moreno-de Las Heras M, Pérez-Domingo S, Espigares T, Nicolau JM. 2012b. Hydrological heterogeneity in Mediterranean reclaimed slopes: runoff and sediment yield at the patch and slope scales along a gradient of overland flow. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 16: 1305-1320. DOI: 10.5194/hess-16-1305-2012.
28. Moreno-de Las Heras M. 2009. Development of soil physical structure and biological functionality in mining spoils affected by soil erosion in a Mediterranean-continental environment. Geoderma 149: 249-256. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2008.12.003.
29. Moreno-de Las Heras M, Nicolau JM, Espigares T. 2008. Vegetation succession in reclaimed coal-mining slopes in a Mediterranean-dry environment. Ecological Engineering 34: 168-178. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2008.07.017.
30. Moreno-de Las Heras M, Merino-Martín L, Nicolau JM. 2009. Effect of vegetation cover on the hydrology of reclaimed mining soils under Mediterranean-Continental climate. Catena 77: 39-47. DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2008.12.005.
31. Moreno-de Las Heras M, Espigares T, Merino-Martín L, Nicolau JM. 2011. Water-related ecological impacts of rill erosion processes in Mediterranean-dry reclaimed slopes. Catena 84: 114-124. DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2010.10.010.
32. Newman BD, Wilcox BP, Archer SR, Breshears DD, Dahm CN, Duffy CJ, McDowell NG, Phillips FM, Scanlon BR, Vivoni ER. 2006. Ecohydrology of water-limited environments: a scientific vision. Water Resources Research 42: W06302. DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004141.
33. Nicolau JM, Asensio E. 2000. Rainfall erosion on opencast coal-mine lands. An ecological perspective. Land Reconstruction and Management 1: 51-73.
34. Noble JC, Greene RSB, Müller WJ. 1998. Herbage production following rainfall redistribution in a semi-arid mulga (Acacia aneura) woodland in western New South Wales. Rangeland Journal 20: 206-225.
35. Noy-Meir I. 1973. Desert ecosystems: environment and producers. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 4: 25-51.
36. Papadakis J. 1966. Climates of the World and Their Agricultural Potentialities, Papadakis J. Buenos Aires.
37. Porporato A, Rodríguez-Iturbe I. 2002. Ecohydrology-a challenging multidisciplinary research perspective. Hydrological Sciences Journal 47: 811-821. DOI: 10.1080/02626660209492985.
38. Puigdefábregas J, Sole A, Gutiérrez L, Barrio G, Boer M. 1999. Scales and processes of water and sediment redistribution in drylands: results from the Rambla Honda field site in Southeast Spain. Earth-Science Reviews 48: 39-70.
39. Rango A, Tartowskia SL, Lalibertea A, Wainwright J, Parsons A. 2006. Islands of hydrologically enhanced biotic productivity in natural and managed arid ecosystems. Journal of Arid Environments 65: 235-252. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2005.09.002.
40. Reid KD, Wilcox BP, Breshears DD, MacDonald L. 1999. Runoff and erosion in a Piñon-Juniper woodland: influence of vegetation patches. Soil Science Society of America Journal 63: 1869-1879.
41. Schlesinger WH, Jones CS. 1984. The comparative importance of overland runoff and mean annual rainfall to shrub communities of the Mojave desert. Botanical Gazetta 145: 116-124.
42. Seghieri J, Galle S. 1999. Run-on contribution to a Sahelian two-phase mosaic system: soil water regime and vegetation life cycles. Acta Oecologica 20: 209-217.
43. Seghieri J. Galle S, Rajot JL, Ehrmann M. 1997. Relationships between soil moisture and growth of herbaceous plants in a natural vegetation mosaic in Niger. Journal of Arid Environments 36: 87-102.
44. StatSoft Inc. 2001. Statistica for Windows (Computer Program Manual). StatSoft Inc.: Tulsa (OK).
45. Manu A, Thurow TL, Juo A, Zanguina I. 2000. Agroecological impacts of a practical approach for restoration of degraded Sahelian watersheds. Integrated Watershed Management in the Global Ecosystem, Lal R. CRC Press: Florida; 145-163.
46. Tongway D, Ludwig JA. 1996. Rehabilitation of semiarid landscapes in Australia. I. Restoring productive soils. Restoration Ecology 4: 388-397.
47. Turnbull L, Wilcox BP, Belnap J, Ravi S, D'Odorico P, Childers D, Gwenzi W, Okin G, Wainwright J, Caylor KK, Sankey T. 2012. Understanding the role of ecohydrological feedbacks in ecosystem state change in drylands. Ecohydrology 5: 174-183.
48. Tutin TG, Heywood VH, Walters SM, Webb DA. 1964-1980. Flora Europaea. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge (UK). Vols 1-5.
49. Urgeghe AM, Breshears DD, Martens SN, Beeson PC. 2010. Redistribution of runoff among vegetation patch types: on ecohydrological optimality of herbaceous capture of run-on. Rangeland Ecology & Management 63: 497-504. DOI: 10.2111/REM-D-09-00185.1.
50. White LP. 1969. Vegetation arcs in Jordan. Journal of Ecology 57: 461-464.
51. White LP. 1970. Brousse tigre'e patterns in southern Niger. Journal of Ecology 58: 549-553.
52. Wilcox BP, Thurow TL. 2006. Emerging issues in rangeland ecohydrology: vegetation change and the water cycle. Rangeland Ecology & Management 59: 220-224.
53. Wilcox BP, Breshears DD, Allen CD. 2003. Ecohydrology of a resource-conserving semiarid woodland: effects of scale and disturbance. Ecological Monographs 73: 223-239.