Seed bank composition and above-ground vegetation in response to grazing in sub-Mediterranean oak forests (NW Greece) Export

@article{citeulike:3724944, abstract = {Abstract\ \ We investigate the persistent soil seed bank composition and its relation to the above-ground flora of grazed and non-grazed sub-Mediterranean deciduous oak forests of NW Greece. Twenty-eight taxa were recorded in the soil seed bank and 83 taxa (70 taxa in plots of seed bank sampling) in the above-ground vegetation. The dominant tree species and many woodland species found in the above-ground vegetation were absent from the soil seed bank. Similarity between the soil seed bank and the above-ground vegetation decreased with grazing, and grazing led to a decrease of species richness in above-ground vegetation and soil seed bank. Beta diversity of vegetation among grazed and among non-grazed plots did not differ, but was significantly higher between grazed and non-grazed areas. Beta diversity of the soil seed bank declined with grazing. When applying classification tree and logistic regression analyses, non-grazed forest sites are clearly differentiated by the presence of Phillyrea latifolia, Euphorbia amygdaloides and Brachypodium sylvaticum. PCA ordination of above-ground species composition reflected a gradient from sites grazed by ruminants to non-grazed sites, but no clear structure was detected in the seed bank.}, author = {Chaideftou, Evgenia and Thanos, Costas and Bergmeier, Erwin and Kallimanis, Athanasios and Dimopoulos, Panayotis}, citeulike-article-id = {3724944}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11258-008-9548-1}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/b015074573027867}, doi = {10.1007/s11258-008-9548-1}, journal = {Plant Ecology}, keywords = {-, bank, boar, browsing, deciduous, forests, grazing, greece, oak, pasture, ruminants, seed, soil, wild, wood}, posted-at = {2008-11-29 17:15:14}, priority = {2}, title = {Seed bank composition and above-ground vegetation in response to grazing in sub-Mediterranean oak forests (NW Greece)}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11258-008-9548-1} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3724944 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3724944 N2 - Abstract  We investigate the persistent soil seed bank composition and its relation to the above-ground flora of grazed and non-grazed sub-Mediterranean deciduous oak forests of NW Greece. Twenty-eight taxa were recorded in the soil seed bank and 83 taxa (70 taxa in plots of seed bank sampling) in the above-ground vegetation. The dominant tree species and many woodland species found in the above-ground vegetation were absent from the soil seed bank. Similarity between the soil seed bank and the above-ground vegetation decreased with grazing, and grazing led to a decrease of species richness in above-ground vegetation and soil seed bank. Beta diversity of vegetation among grazed and among non-grazed plots did not differ, but was significantly higher between grazed and non-grazed areas. Beta diversity of the soil seed bank declined with grazing. When applying classification tree and logistic regression analyses, non-grazed forest sites are clearly differentiated by the presence of Phillyrea latifolia, Euphorbia amygdaloides and Brachypodium sylvaticum. PCA ordination of above-ground species composition reflected a gradient from sites grazed by ruminants to non-grazed sites, but no clear structure was detected in the seed bank. JF - Plant Ecology TI - Seed bank composition and above-ground vegetation in response to grazing in sub-Mediterranean oak forests (NW Greece) KW - - KW - bank KW - boar KW - browsing KW - deciduous KW - forests KW - grazing KW - greece KW - oak KW - pasture KW - ruminants KW - seed KW - soil KW - wild KW - wood AU - Chaideftou, Evgenia AU - Thanos, Costas AU - Bergmeier, Erwin AU - Kallimanis, Athanasios AU - Dimopoulos, Panayotis UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11258-008-9548-1 ER -