生物多样性和环境因素对亚热带森林树木生物量和生物量生长的解耦影响

生物多样性与生态系统功能之间的关系已成为森林生态系统研究的核心问题。然而,在具有不同人类干扰历史的亚热带森林群落中,关于环境因子对生物多样性与生态系统功能关系影响的研究仍然较少。在本研究中,选择位于中国东部浙江省的34个亚热带森林样地,在考虑样方中的环境因子的基础上,利用线性模型,分析样地中木本植物多样性(物种、功能和谱系多样性)与样方内木本植物生物量或生物量变化量之间的关系。物种多样性和功能多样性,并非谱系多样性,与生物量和生物量的变化量之间存在显着相关性。生物量或生物量变化量与年平均温度和海拔高度之间存在显著的正相关关系。此外,在考虑环境因子和森林群落的演替阶段时,生物量变化量与功能多样性的关系显著强于生物量变化量与谱系多样性或物种多样性之间的关系。这些研究结果表明,生物多样性与生态系统功能之间的关系可能取决于生物多样性指数的选择和环境条件。

古田山10种主要森林群落类型的α和β多样性格局及影响因素

古田山国家级自然保护区地处中亚热带,地形复杂,森林群落类型丰富。我们在保护区内10种主要森林群落类型中网格化布置并调查了79个20 m×20 m样地,分析了不同群落类型内及相互间的α(Shannon-Wiener指数)、β(Horn-Morisita相异性指数)多样性分布格局及其影响因素。结果表明:(1)α多样性主要受到群落类型、海拔和坡向的影响。α多样性在不同群落类型间差异显著,并且随海拔升高、坡向从南到北,α多样性增大。(2)β多样性主要受到群落类型和海拔的影响,受空间距离的影响不显著。不同群落类型间的β多样性显著大于同一群落类型内部,并且随海拔升高β多样性增大。总体而言,群落类型和海拔是古田山森林群落α和β多样性的主要影响因子,表明生境过滤等机制对该区域的森林物种多样性格局起着主要作用。

The effect of microclimate on wood decay is indirectly altered by tree species diversity in a litterbag study

Aims We studied the influence of tree species diversity on the dynamics of coarse wood decomposition in developing forest communities in a natural,topographically heterogeneous landscape.Using the litter bag technique,we investigated how and to which extent canopy tree species richness or the exclusion of mesoinvertebrates and macroinvertebrates affected wood decomposition in the light of natural variations in the microclimate.We compared the relative importance of the two aspects(experimental treatment versus microclimate)on wood decay rates using Schima superba as a standard litter.Methods Coarse woody debris(CWD)was deposited in litter bags with two different mesh sizes in a total of 134 plots along a gradient of canopy tree species richness(0-24 species).Wood decomposition was assessed at two consecutive time points,one and three years after deposition in the field.Local climatic conditions were assessed throughout the duration of the experiment.Microclimatic conditions were assessed both,directly in the field as well as indirectly via correlations with local topography.We used analysis of variance based approaches to assess the relative importance of the treatments(community tree species richness and macro invertebrate exclusion)and microclimatic conditions on wood decay.Important Findings No direct influence of tree species richness on wood decay could be detected.However,the exclusion of macroinvertebrates significantly decreased wood decomposition rates.In addition,microclimatic conditions accounted for a substantial proportion of explained variance in the observed data.Here,wood decomposition was negatively affected by low mean temperatures and high variations in local humidity and temperature.However,tree species richness as well as the respective species composition affected the presence of termites within forest communities.These,in turn,significantly increased the decay of CWD.The strength of both,experimental treatment and microclimate increased with ongoing decomposition.We conclude that,while tree species richness per se has no direct influence on wood decomposition,its influence on the local arthropod decomposer community(especially the presence of termites)does have an effect.

The asymmetric relationships of the distribution of conspecific saplings and adults in forest fragments

随着土地利用方式变化的加剧,生境片段化已成为影响植物多样性的主要因子之一。通常,当成年树个体的密度越高,其周边同种幼树个体的存活率可能会下降,从而为其它物种提供了空间和资源,进而可以维持较高的局域物种多样性。因此,同种成年树和幼树个体的空间分布格局关系和作用强度可以调节植物多样性。然而,对于在片段化森林中,同种成年树和幼树个体空间分布关系的研究却很少报道,迄今尚不清楚片段化景观中同种个体的空间分布关系与物种多样性之间的联系。本研究选择千岛湖陆桥岛屿系统中的27个岛屿,基于岛屿上幼树和成年树个体的空间分布数据,利用混合效应模型分析它们之间的作用强度。同种幼树和成年树个体的空间作用强度越大,说明它们之间的负相互作用越强,即幼树和成年树个体空间分布越分散。此外,本研究分析了岛屿属性(岛屿面积,与大陆的距离和与最近岛屿的距离)与同种个体空间作用强度及物种多样性之间的关系。结果表明,同种个体的空间作用强度随着与最近岛屿距离的增加而增加。同时,物种多样性随着同种个体的空间作用强度的增加而显著增加,且岛屿面积和同种个体的空间作用强度分别解释了岛屿间物种多样性差异的26%和6%,共同解释了8%。耐阴种和非常见种比非耐阴种和常见种的同种幼树和成年树的空间分布更为分散。本研究表明,同种个体的空间分布可能会影响多度较低物种在片段化森林中的生存,反映了生物相互作用对于维持片段化森林中的植物多样性具有重要作用。本研究也强调在检验同种密度制约时应考虑森林之间的连接度。

Multi-stemming strategies of Quercus glauca in an evergreen broad-leaved forest: when and where

多茎干萌生策略可赋予树木抗干扰能力。在山地生境中,树木的多茎干萌生有助于维持土壤稳定性以及森林生态系统功能的稳定性。但对于多茎干萌生在何时(个体发育阶段偏好)、何地(生境偏好)发生,以及个体发育阶段和生境因子是否存在关联尚不了解。本文基于钱江源国家公园古田山5 ha亚热带常绿阔叶林监测样地,研究了99个20 m×20 m样方内常见树种青冈(Quercus glauca)萌生的发生时间与空间分布规律。研究结果表明,青冈种群内存在3种萌生模式,大部分个体在生活史早期阶段即幼苗或者幼树阶段出现多茎干萌生。与凹凸度有关的环境干扰可能是青冈多茎干萌生的主要驱动因素。此外,距离海拔较高的山脊越近,青冈多茎干萌生发生的越早。这一发现,强调了考虑个体发育的重要性。因此,在研究其他森林或气候带中树种多茎干萌生策略的环境驱动因素时,要结合考虑个体发育,以期更好的理解多茎干萌生策略及其对群落结构与功能的影响.

Examining residual spatial correlation in variation partitioning of beta diversity in a subtropical forest

Aims The relative roles of ecological processes in structuring beta diver-sity are usually quantified by variation partitioning of beta diversity with respect to environmental and spatial variables or gamma di-versity.However,if important environmental or spatial factors are omitted,or a scale mismatch occurs in the analysis,unaccounted spatial correlation will appear in the residual errors and lead to re-sidual spatial correlation and problematic inferences.Methods Multi-scale ordination(MSO)partitions the canonical ordination results by distance into a set of empirical variograms which charac-terize the spatial structures of explanatory,conditional and residual variance against distance.Then these variance components can be used to diagnose residual spatial correlation by checking assump-tions related to geostatistics or regression analysis.In this paper,we first illustrate the performance of MSO using a simulated data set with known properties,thus making statistical issues explicit.We then test for significant residual spatial correlation in beta diversity analyses of the Gutianshan(GTS)24-ha subtropical forest plot in eastern China.Important Findings Even though we used up to 24 topographic and edaphic variables mapped at high resolution and spatial variables representing spa-tial structures at all scales,we still found significant residual spatial correlation at the 10 m×10 m quadrat scale.This invalidated the analysis and inferences at this scale.We also show that MSO pro-vides a complementary tool to test for significant residual spatial correlation in beta diversity analyses.Our results provided a strong argument supporting the need to test for significant residual spatial correlation before interpreting the results of beta diversity analyses.

Study on successions sequence of evergreen broad-leaved forest in Gutian Mountain of Zhejiang,Eastern China:species diversity

Using the widely adopted scheme of space-for-time substitution for investigating 16 typical plots distri-buted as a pattern of contiguous grid quadrates within a sampling plot,the expressions of Shannon-Wiener index(H)for species diversity,Pielou index(J_(sw),J_(SI))for evenness and Simpson index(D)for ecological dominance are employed to investigate the species diversity(SD)of four evergreen broadleaved communities in the successions sequence within the Nature Reserve of the Gutian Mountains.Results showed that in the successions process from the coniferous to the mixed coniferous-broadleaved,then to Schima superba and finally to Castanopsis eyrei forest,the arbor layer SD showed the Shannon-Wiener index(H)as 1.9670,2.4975,2.6140 and 2.4356,respectively,characterized by their rise before drop and the shrub(herb)layer SD shows the maximum to be in the mixed coniferous-broadleaved(coniferous)forest(H arriving at 2.8625(1.5334)).In the vertical structure,on the other hand,for the sequenced coniferous forest,coniferous-broad mixed forest and Castnaopsis eyrei forest,the number of SD ranges in a decreasing order from the shrub,arbor to herb layer in contrast to the SD in a decreasing order of Schima superba forest ranging from the arbor to shrub and then to herb layer,and during the succession,the herb layer exhibits the maximum range of SD change among these layers,with its variation coefficients of 0.1572,0.0806,0.0899 and 0.1884 for H,J_(SW),J_(SI) and D,in order,in sharp contrast to the minimal SD range in the shrub layer,with the corresponding figures of 0.0482,0.0385,0.0142,and 0.1553.