NDLI: Relationships between serpentine soils and vegetation in a xeric inner-Alpine environment

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Author	D’Amico, Michele E. Bonifacio, Eleora Zanini, Erman
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	In serpentinitic areas non-endemic plants suffer from the serpentine syndrome, due to high Ni and Mg concentrations, low nutrients and Ca/Mg ratio. We evaluated the environment-soil-vegetation relationships in a xeric inner-alpine area (NW Italy), where the inhibited pedogenesis should enhance parent material influences on vegetation.Site conditions, topsoil properties, plant associations and species on and off serpentinite were statistically associated (51 sites).Serpentine soils had higher Mg and Ni concentrations, but did not differ from non-serpentine ones in nutrient contents. The 15 vegetation clusters often showed substrate specificity. Two components of the Canonical Analysis of Principal Coordinates, respectively related to Mg and to Ni and heat load, identified serpentine vegetation. Random Forests showed that several species were positively correlated with Ni and/or Ca/Mg or Mg, some were negatively associated with high Ni, Mg excess affected only few species. Considering only serpentine sites, nutrients and microclimate were most important.Ni excess most often precludes the presence of plant species on serpentinite, while an exclusion due to Mg is rarer. Endemic species are mostly adapted to both factors. Nutrient scarcity was not specific of serpentine soils in the considered environment. Considering only serpentine sites, nutrient and microclimatic gradients drove vegetation variability.
Starting Page	111
Ending Page	128
Page Count	18
File Format	PDF
ISSN	0032079X
Journal	Plant and Soil
Volume Number	376
Issue Number	1-2
e-ISSN	15735036
Language	English
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Publisher Date	2013-11-16
Publisher Place	Cham
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Ultramafic rocks Serpentinite Pedogenesis Serpentine syndrome Soil fertility Ni Plant Sciences Soil Science & Conservation Plant Physiology Ecology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Soil Science Plant Science

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