Establishment and succession of vegetation on different soil horizons

Soil Weathering Stage, Vegetation Succession, and Canopy Dieback

A conceptual model that provides a means of viewing changes in vegetation as responses to weathering of soil mantles over thousands ofyears has been developed from investigations of vegetation communities on a soil chronosequence on sand dunes extending back in time to at least the last interglacial. Progressive and retrogressive phases in natural plant succession are indicated by this sequence...

Investigation on Effects of Environmental and Soil Factors on Establishment of Vegetation Types (Case Study: Sabzdasht, Bafgh)

This research was conducted to investigate the relationships between soil(organic matter, potassium, phosphorous, sodium, fine gravel, soil texture, EC, lime,gypsum, nitrogen) and environmental (elevation, slope) factors with distribution ofvegetation types in rangelands of Sabzdasht, located in Bafgh, Yazd province at 2012. Forthis purpose, four vegetation types were selected as follows: Artem...

Succession of Ultramafic Vegetation

The mam plant communities of ultramafic (serpentine) outcrops of a Mediterranean area in central Italy are described and their successional pathway discussed. Four vegetation stages are distinguished: a) an endemic garigue stage, with high percentage of exposed rocky soil belonging to Armerio-Alyssetum bertolonii; b) a garigue stage similar to the previous one but with several Mediterranean eve...

Identifying and Addressing Soil Property Issues Affecting Roadside Vegetation Establishment

Tri-Variate Relationships among Vegetation, Soil, and Topography along Gradients of Fluvial Biogeomorphic Succession

This research investigated how the strength of vegetation-soil-topography couplings varied along a gradient of biogeomorphic succession in two distinct fluvial systems: a forested river floodplain and a coastal salt marsh creek. The strength of couplings was quantified as tri-variance, which was calculated by correlating three singular axes, one each extracted using three-block partial least sq...