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

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Author	Chaideftou, Evgenia Thas, Costas A. Bergmeier, Erwin Kallimanis, Athanasios Dimopoulos, Panayotis
Copyright Year	2008
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.
Starting Page	255
Ending Page	265
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13850237
Journal	Plant Ecology
Volume Number	201
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15735052
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2008-11-25
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Soil seed bank Wood pasture Grazing Browsing Deciduous oak forests Greece Wild boar Ruminants Plant Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Ecology Plant Science

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