- Tytuł:
- Spatial and temporal variability of seed bank resulting from overgrowing of xerothermic grassland
- Autorzy:
- Czarnecka, J
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/58295.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2008
- Wydawca:
- Polskie Towarzystwo Botaniczne
- Tematy:
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vegetation
Polska
grassland
overgrowing
vegetation change
grassland vegetation
xerothermic grassland
structure
seed bank
bush encroachment
Roztocze macroregion
botany
burned seed flora
succession - Opis:
- The aim of my study was to determine changes in the seed bank and vegetation during the process of overgro-wing of the xerothermic grassland situated on the slopes of the White Mountain (349 m a. s. l., the Central Roztocze Region, South-Eastern Poland). I also examined whether the changes of vegetation can be predicted if we know the structure of the burned seed flora. To achieve this goal I used two sets of data: one collected from three different environments (grassland, brushwood and woodland) at the same time (toposequence), and the other collected twice from the same place at the interval of seven years (chronosequence). I stated that the appearance of even a small number of ornitochorous seeds and their seedlings can be treated as a signal that the bush encroachment will accelerate. Seed number seems to decrease during succession in the analysed sequence of plant communities. The total number of species in the seed bank did not change in the most dynamic plant communities: grassland and brushwood, and it was significantly higher there than in the seed bank of woodland. During the time of observation, the most important quantitative and qualitative changes took place in grassland vegetation, which is more similar to brushwood vegetation now than it was at the beginning of the study.
- Źródło:
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Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae; 2008, 77, 2
0001-6977
2083-9480 - Pojawia się w:
- Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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