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- Title
Effects of alien species Robinia pseudoacacia on plant community functional structure in hilly-gully region of Loess Plateau, China.
- Authors
Zhu Duo-Ju; Wen Zhong-Ming; Zhang Jing; Tao Yu; Zeng Hong-Wen; Tang Yang
- Abstract
To investigate the effects of the introduction of Robinia pseudoacacia on the functional structure of plant communities, we selected paired-plots of R. pseudoacacia communities and native plant communities across different vegetation zones, i.e., steppe zone, forest-steppe zone, forest zone in hilly-gully region of Loess Plateau, China. We measured several functional characteristics and then compared the functional structures of R. pseudoacacia and native plant communities in different vegetation zones. The results showed that the variation of the functional traits across different vegetation zones were consistent in R. pseudoacacia community and native plant community, including leaf carbon concentration, leaf nitrogen concentration, leaf phosphorus concentration, specific leaf area, and leaf tissue density. The leaf carbon concentration, leaf nitrogen concentration, and specific leaf area of the R. pseudoacacia community were significantly higher than those of the native plant community. The trend of change that the functional diversity indices, i.e., FRic, FEve, FDiv, FDis, Rao of the R. pseudoacacia community and the native plant community with vegetation zones were different. The introduction of R. pseudoacacia enhanced the plant community functional diversity in the forest zone but reduced community functional diversity in the steppe zone.
- Subjects
LOESS Plateau (China); BLACK locust; PLANT communities; NATIVE plants; FOREST biodiversity
- Publication
Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology / Yingyong Shengtai Xuebao, 2018, Vol 29, Issue 2, p459
- ISSN
1001-9332
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13287/j.1001-9332.201802.007