| Plant diversity patterns in subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forests of Yunnan and Taiwan | |
Tang, CQ; Chiou, CR; Lin, CT; Lin, JR; Hsieh, CF; Tang, JW ; Su, WH; Hou, XL
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| 2013 | |
| Source Publication | ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH
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| Volume | 28Issue:1Pages:81-92 |
| Abstract | The subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forests of Yunnan and Taiwan were compared along environmental and successional gradients with the aim of identifying important taxon and species diversity as well as the drivers of mountain biodiversity patterns. A detrended correspondence analysis of an exhaustive set of data collected from 105 and 223 plots for Yunnan and Taiwan, respectively, was applied to classify natural mature forest types. Additional data from 72 and 68 plots for Yunnan and Taiwan, respectively, were used for analyses of secondary succession. The floristic richness and diversity index were calculated for each type of forest. In Yunnan, the monsoon forests in mesic-humid sites had more taxa and tended to show higher species diversity than the other two forest types. In Taiwan, species diversity values were significantly higher in the Machilus-Castanopsis zone in the middle altitudes (500-1500 m) than for the other three forest zones. For both Yunnan and Taiwan, the forests at the middle successional stage showed significantly higher species diversity than those at the early successional stage. Differences in diversity between the middle and late stages were not significant. These findings highlight the high species diversity of the natural mature evergreen broad-leaved forests of both Yunnan and Taiwan. In the secondary forests, as succession proceeds, species diversity comes to resemble that of the natural mature forests. In both ecosystems, the drivers of species diversity patterns are moisture, altitude, and succession/disturbance. |
| Keyword | Diversity Environmental Gradient Floristic Richness Forest Types/zones Successional Gradient |
| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | https://ir.xtbg.ac.cn/handle/353005/3919 |
| Collection | 2012年后新成立研究组 中国科学院西双版纳热带植物园 |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Tang, CQ,Chiou, CR,Lin, CT,et al. Plant diversity patterns in subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forests of Yunnan and Taiwan[J]. ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH,2013,28(1):81-92. |
| APA | Tang, CQ.,Chiou, CR.,Lin, CT.,Lin, JR.,Hsieh, CF.,...&Hou, XL.(2013).Plant diversity patterns in subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forests of Yunnan and Taiwan.ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH,28(1),81-92. |
| MLA | Tang, CQ,et al."Plant diversity patterns in subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forests of Yunnan and Taiwan".ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH 28.1(2013):81-92. |
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