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- Title
SPECIES RICHNESS ALONG A PRODUCTION GRADIENT: A MULTIVARIATE APPROACH.
- Authors
de Lafontaine, Guillaume; Houle, Gilles
- Abstract
The specific shape of the relationship between plant diversity and productivity and the causal mechanism(s) behind the observed pattern(s) are still highly debated. Recent advances suggest that the relationship depends on several environmental variables and may change with the observational scale. In this study, a multivariate, multiscale approach was used to identify the variables that determine the relationship between species richness and annual production along a forest/old field edge in southern Québec (Canada). Various relationships between richness and production were found at different distances to the edge. In the forest, most relationships were positive and linear, while in the old field the relationship shifted from positive linear to non- significant with increasing distance from the edge. In the forest or in the old field, the shape of the relationship (all distances from the edge combined) was unimodal. Path analyses showed that species richness was determined mostly by production, which was influenced by different limiting resources, depending on the community (forest or old field). An increasing range in production created by pooling across community types can confound the resources and/or conditions determining the diversity-productivity relationship.
- Subjects
PLANT diversity; MULTIVARIATE analysis; PATH analysis (Statistics); PLANT species; BIODIVERSITY; BOTANICAL research
- Publication
American Journal of Botany, 2007, Vol 94, Issue 1, p79
- ISSN
0002-9122
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3732/ajb.94.1.79