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Leithead, Mark D.

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Vegetation dynamics of North and South America: Gradients, climate change and disturbance across spatiotemporal scales.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Vegetation dynamics of North and South America: Gradients, climate change and disturbance across spatiotemporal scales./
作者:	Leithead, Mark D.
面頁冊數:	187 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-01, Section: B, page: 0047.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-01B.
標題:	Biology, Ecology. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR67836
ISBN:	9780494678367

Vegetation dynamics of North and South America: Gradients, climate change and disturbance across spatiotemporal scales.
Leithead, Mark D.

Vegetation dynamics of North and South America: Gradients, climate change and disturbance across spatiotemporal scales. - 187 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-01, Section: B, page: 0047.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Guelph (Canada), 2010.

Our understanding of vegetation dynamics is derived from case studies of how plant communities respond to both changes in climate and disturbances; however comparative studies of these responses across temperate, subtropical and tropical forests are rare. In this thesis I investigate vegetation responses to changes in climate and disturbance across temperate, subtropical and tropical forests of North and South America. My review of the disturbance literature in forest ecology has led me to identify a lack of comparative studies testing general applicability of disturbance hypotheses across temperate and tropical forests. I also find, from pollen records across North and South America, that both low latitude and high elevation woody plant communities show greater amounts of community change than plant communities at high latitudes and low elevations, respectively, during the late-Holocene (5,000 - 150 years before present) which I attribute to increased aridity around the tropics and decreased temperatures at high elevations. I also find from a comparative study between a temperate old-growth red pine forest of Canada, a subtropical Araucaria Atlantic forest of southern Brazil and a tropical Gallery forest of central Brazil that differences in local factors, such as dispersal limitation, and regional factors, such as species ranges, for each forest type define tree diversity and richness responses to disturbance in recovering chronosequence plots. I further identify strong, directional secondary succession trajectories in temperate, subtropical and tropical forests; however small-scale disturbances (in this case treefall gap disturbances) can yield an alternative succession trajectory in the temperate forest. I attribute this alternative succession trajectory to the presence of northward migrating tree pressures in the Great Lakes -- St. Lawrence temperate forest ecotone. I further show that both gap size and gap age define the establishment of northward migrating tree species in the temperate forest ecotone. I conclude that differences in local and regional factors can yield varied responses to changes in climate and disturbance between temperate, subtropical and tropical forests, requiring comparative studies across forest types to identify such factors and explain inconsistent responses between forests worldwide.

ISBN: 9780494678367Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017726
Biology, Ecology.

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