NDLI: Some ecophysiological and historical approaches to species richness and calcicole/calcifuge behaviour

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Author	Tyler, Germund
Copyright Year	2003
Abstract	Species richness in vascular plants was related to the plants’ calcifuge or calcicole behaviour using documentation from forests and open-land vegetation at about one thousand sites in the southern parts of Sweden. It is concluded that vegetation of strongly acid soils (pH-KCl < 4.5) have fewer vascular plant species than comparable vegetation of other soils, whereas there are no consistent differences in species richness between slightly-moderately acid and calcareous sites. Low species richness is particularly related to high concentrations of Al$^{3+}$ and H$^{+}$ ions (either soil solution concentrations or concentrations of exchangeable ions), not to a lack of calcium carbonate. The majority of plant species are able to render the sparingly soluble phosphate, iron and manganese compounds of high-pH soils available, but they are unable to tolerate much Al$^{3+}$ or H$^{+}$. Acidicole (calcifuge) species have developed the power of tolerating Al$^{3+}$ and H$^{+}$, which may be considered a secondary property of plants, but they have lost the power of solubilizing critical mineral nutrients in high-pH soils. The reasons why these ecophysiological properties are inversely related in the current flora are obscure, difficult to account for experimentally and a main ecological problem. In areas with cool-temperate climates the flora was partly or mainly extinguished by the Pleistocene glaciations. Comparatively fewer calcifuge than calcicole species have, since then, had enough time to develop, and the number of calcifuges is lower, in spite of the fact that most natural and seminatural soils of these areas are nowadays acidic.
Starting Page	419
Ending Page	428
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISSN	12119520
Journal	Folia Geobotanica
Volume Number	38
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	18749348
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2003-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Calcicole Calcifuge Nutrient deficiency Plant Soil Species richness Toxicity Life Sciences Plant Sciences Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography Plant Ecology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Plant Science Paleontology

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