Wenchuan earthquake on 12 May 2008 triggered numerous landslides, which disturbed vast areas of vegetation in northwest Sichuan. However, based on our primary field investigation at Xiejiadian landslide in July 2009, ...Wenchuan earthquake on 12 May 2008 triggered numerous landslides, which disturbed vast areas of vegetation in northwest Sichuan. However, based on our primary field investigation at Xiejiadian landslide in July 2009, we found an obvious increase of the number of plant species and then we made a hypothesis that, after earthquake, vegetation at this landslide might recover by itself. In this paper, we conduct a newly field investigation at Xiejiadian landslide during November 2014 to verify this hypothesis. We investigated plant species composition at total 56 sites(trees 4, shrubs 16 and herbs 36, respectively), and calculated the Schluter's variance ratio, important values, x2 test, associationcoefficient, Ochiai index, Pearson's and Spearman's correlation coefficients, and Ecological species groups. Species sharply increased to 84 species belonging to 66 genera and 54 families, forming a complete life form containing trees, shrubs, herbs, and ground layers while only herbs detected in 2009. Moreover, an overall positive and moderately related interspecies association was detected for most of species pairs. Of total 84 species, twenty five were identified as dominant species and could be divided into four positive ecological species groups. This study verified our proposed hypothesis of self-recovery of vegetation in landslide triggered by the earthquake, and found Alnus cremastogyne, Rhus chinensis, Litsea cubeba, Vitis piasezkii and Anemone vitifolia would play a constructive role during the continuing succession of vegetation at Xiejiadian landslide.展开更多
Thousands of landslide data being taken as the nation wide statistics of sampling and the two state variables of landslide being processed with two methods described in the references, the main types of lithologica...Thousands of landslide data being taken as the nation wide statistics of sampling and the two state variables of landslide being processed with two methods described in the references, the main types of lithological groups of landslides in China have been sieved and selected.On the other hand, through the displacement table of Pascal Yanghui triangle used in the information encoding theory, the mark weight of sampling can be calculated and the main lithological groups which have close relationship with landslide occurrence can be gained.In comparison with the both results, the characteristics of main sliding lithological groups are determinated, and the main distribution regions of landslides can be prognosticated.展开更多
基金the Open Fund of Ecological Security and Protection Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Mianyang Normal University (ESP201305)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (40871222)+1 种基金the Natural Science Foundation Project of CQ CSTC (cstc2015jcyjBX0041, cstc2009BA7029)the Application Basic Research Project of Ministry of Transport of P.R.China (2013329814230)
文摘Wenchuan earthquake on 12 May 2008 triggered numerous landslides, which disturbed vast areas of vegetation in northwest Sichuan. However, based on our primary field investigation at Xiejiadian landslide in July 2009, we found an obvious increase of the number of plant species and then we made a hypothesis that, after earthquake, vegetation at this landslide might recover by itself. In this paper, we conduct a newly field investigation at Xiejiadian landslide during November 2014 to verify this hypothesis. We investigated plant species composition at total 56 sites(trees 4, shrubs 16 and herbs 36, respectively), and calculated the Schluter's variance ratio, important values, x2 test, associationcoefficient, Ochiai index, Pearson's and Spearman's correlation coefficients, and Ecological species groups. Species sharply increased to 84 species belonging to 66 genera and 54 families, forming a complete life form containing trees, shrubs, herbs, and ground layers while only herbs detected in 2009. Moreover, an overall positive and moderately related interspecies association was detected for most of species pairs. Of total 84 species, twenty five were identified as dominant species and could be divided into four positive ecological species groups. This study verified our proposed hypothesis of self-recovery of vegetation in landslide triggered by the earthquake, and found Alnus cremastogyne, Rhus chinensis, Litsea cubeba, Vitis piasezkii and Anemone vitifolia would play a constructive role during the continuing succession of vegetation at Xiejiadian landslide.
文摘Thousands of landslide data being taken as the nation wide statistics of sampling and the two state variables of landslide being processed with two methods described in the references, the main types of lithological groups of landslides in China have been sieved and selected.On the other hand, through the displacement table of Pascal Yanghui triangle used in the information encoding theory, the mark weight of sampling can be calculated and the main lithological groups which have close relationship with landslide occurrence can be gained.In comparison with the both results, the characteristics of main sliding lithological groups are determinated, and the main distribution regions of landslides can be prognosticated.
