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A little disturbance goes a long way: 33-year understory successional responses to a thin tephra deposit / Dylan G. Fischer in Forest ecology and management, vol 382 (15 December 2016)  

Public [article]  inForest ecology and management > vol 382 (15 December 2016) . - pp 236 - 243 Titre : A little disturbance goes a long way: 33-year understory successional responses to a thin tephra deposit Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Dylan G. Fischer, Auteur ; Joseph A. Antos, Auteur ; William G. Grandy, Auteur ; Donald B. Zobel, Auteur Année de publication : 2016 Article en page(s) : pp 236 - 243 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] association végétale [Termes IGN] éruption volcanique [Termes IGN] phytosociologie [Termes IGN] placette d'échantillonnage [Termes IGN] richesse floristique [Termes IGN] Saint-Helens, Mont [Termes IGN] Washington (Etats-Unis ; état) [Vedettes matières IGN] Ecologie forestière Résumé : (auteur) Large volcanic eruptions can alter forest plant communities through a variety of mechanisms, including direct destruction of forests and changes to forest soils through tephra (aerially transported volcanic ejecta) deposits. While many studies have examined succession following direct destruction of forests, impacts to plant communities through tephra effects are less obvious, especially where the tephra depth is less than plant height. We used a 33-year experiment in an old growth forest that received shallow tephra deposition in the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens (WA, USA), to examine plant communities. We determined if community differences between plots with and without tephra: (1) were detectable, and (2) changed over time. We found that plant communities differed significantly between plots with and without tephra after 33 years. Further, differences were stronger after 33 years than at two years following the eruption. Species richness increased over time in both plots with and without tephra, but live cover was largely stable after two years. Nevertheless, communities shifted in different directions over time, where the changes in species composition and abundance immediately following tephra deposition were inconsistent with net changes that occurred over 30 years afterwards. These results suggest that widespread and apparently minor deposits of tephra, usually interpreted to be of transient importance if any, may induce long-term modifications of understory plant communities. Numéro de notice : A2016-717 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : FORET Nature : Article DOI : 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.10.018 En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2016.10.018 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=82192 [article]