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Título
Niche characterization of shrub functional groups along an Atlantic-Mediterranean gradient
Año del Documento
2021
Editorial
MDPI
Descripción
Producción Científica
Documento Fuente
Forests, 2021, Vol. 12, Nº. 8, 982
Zusammenfassung
The identification of the factors controlling the understory species distribution and abundance is essential to understand the ecology and dynamics of natural forests and their management response. We assess the relationships between environmental gradients and shrub functional groups distribution patterns and niche characteristics in a transitional area between the Eurosiberian and Mediterranean biogeographic regions in Northern Spain. Here, 772 plots from the 3rd Spanish National Forest Inventory were used. Shrub functional groups respond to the same complex environmental gradients as trees, i.e., the north-south climatic gradient and a slope gradient. Unimodal response curves of shrub functional groups and families dominate along both gradients, providing evidence of successful functional turnover. Similar to tree species, the niche location of functionally related shrubs is close. Functional groups occupying environments with sharp contrast or transitional environments have the broadest niches, whereas those specialized functional groups occupying localized habitats showed the narrowest niches. The knowledge of shrub species distributions and niche characteristics along complex environmental gradients will improve our ability to discuss potential conservation management goals or threats due to land-use changes and future climate change.
Materias (normalizadas)
Forestry management
Bosques y silvicultura - España - Inventarios
Reservas forestales - España
Modeling
Arbustos
Materias Unesco
3106.08 Silvicultura
ISSN
1999-4907
Revisión por pares
SI
Patrocinador
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación - (RYC-2016-20528)
Version del Editor
Propietario de los Derechos
© 2021 The authors
Idioma
eng
Tipo de versión
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Derechos
openAccess
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