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DOI	10.1016/j.foreco.2020.117897
	Stand attributes or soil micro-environment exert greater influence than management type on understory plant diversity in even-aged oak high forests
	Wei L.; Archaux F.; Hulin F.; Bilger I.; Gosselin F.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0378-1127
卷号	460
英文摘要	Understanding the determinants of forest understory diversity provides a theoretical basis for sustainable management practices. Our study aimed to identify the dominant factors determining understory diversity in temperate forests among three potentially important factors: management type (managed vs unmanaged), stand attributes (basal area by species and by diameter class, shrub layer cover) and soil micro-environment (soil compaction and soil moisture). Understory diversity was represented by the richness and abundance of plant ecological groups based on life form crossed with successional status, light and moisture requirements. We selected 50 stands in five French national forests, half of which were managed and half unmanaged. After model comparison, our results showed that, depending on the ecological groups studied, basal area and micro-environment rather than management type were the best explanatory models for understory diversity. Our magnitude analyses showed that understory diversity did not differ much between managed and unmanaged forests. Basal area, which had ecologically important effects, negatively correlated with understory diversity. For two ecological groups (mature-forest and shade-tolerant woody species), diversity was better explained by basal area in interaction with management type than by the sole effect of basal area. Soil micro-environment, which had ecologically important effects, mostly showed positive relationships with understory diversity; e.g. hygrophilous and intermediate-light herbaceous species positively correlated to soil moisture, while heliophilous herbaceous species were positively correlated to soil compaction. Our study indicated that forest management abandonment after 20–40 years did not induce higher understory diversity than in managed forests; abandonment's role in understory diversity was weak compared to basal area or soil environment. Whether such results persist after longer periods of abandonment remains unknown. © 2020 Elsevier B.V.
英文关键词	Ecological group; Forest management; Magnitude analysis; Soil compaction; Soil moisture; Stand composition; Stand structure
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Compaction; Ecology; Environmental management; Plants (botany); Soil mechanics; Soil moisture; Sustainable development; Ecological groups; Magnitude analysis; Soil compaction; Stand composition; Stand structures; Forestry; basal area; compaction; forest management; plant; relative abundance; soil ecosystem; soil moisture; species diversity; stand structure; understory; Basal Area; Compaction; Ecology; Forest Management; Forestry; Forests; Soil Mechanics; Stand Composition
来源期刊	Forest Ecology and Management
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/155465
作者单位	Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, China; INRAE, UR EFNO, Domaine des Barres, Nogent-sur-Vernisson, F-45290, France
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wei L.,Archaux F.,Hulin F.,et al. Stand attributes or soil micro-environment exert greater influence than management type on understory plant diversity in even-aged oak high forests[J],2020,460.
APA	Wei L.,Archaux F.,Hulin F.,Bilger I.,&Gosselin F..(2020).Stand attributes or soil micro-environment exert greater influence than management type on understory plant diversity in even-aged oak high forests.Forest Ecology and Management,460.
MLA	Wei L.,et al."Stand attributes or soil micro-environment exert greater influence than management type on understory plant diversity in even-aged oak high forests".Forest Ecology and Management 460(2020).