Environmental factors influencing herb layer productivity in
Central European oak forests: insights from soil and biomass
analyses and a phytometer experiment

J 2011

Environmental factors influencing herb layer productivity in Central European oak forests: insights from soil and biomass analyses and a phytometer experiment

AXMANOVÁ, Irena, David ZELENÝ, Ching-Feng LI and Milan CHYTRÝ

Basic information

Original name

Environmental factors influencing herb layer productivity in Central European oak forests: insights from soil and biomass analyses and a phytometer experiment

Authors

AXMANOVÁ, Irena (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), David ZELENÝ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Ching-Feng LI (158 Taiwan, belonging to the institution) and Milan CHYTRÝ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Plant and Soil, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2011, 0032-079X

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

Fulltext on SpringerLink

Impact factor

Impact factor: 2.733

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/11:00049749

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11104-010-0683-9

UT WoS

000289562000015

Keywords in English

Bioassay experiment`; Biomass; Czech Republic; Quercus woodland; Raphanus sativus; Soil chemistry

Abstract

V originále

Habitat productivity and vegetation biomass are important factors affecting species diversity and ecosystem function, but factors determining productivity are still insufficiently known, especially in the forest herb layer. These factors are difficult to identify because different methods often yield different results. We sampled the herb layer biomass and assessed soil nutrients, moisture and light availability in 100 m2 plots in Czech oak forests. Habitat productivity was estimated independently from nutrient content in the soil, herb layer biomass and using a bioassay experiment (growing phytometer plants of Raphanus sativus under standardised conditions in soil samples taken from forest plots). Combined evidence based on different approaches indicates that canopy shading and soil phosphorus tend to be the most important factors influencing the herb layer productivity of the studied oak forests.

Links

GD526/09/H025, research and development project

Name: Evolučně-ekologická analýza společenstev a populací

Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Evolutionary ecological analysis of communities and populations

MSM0021622416, plan (intention)

Name: Diverzita biotických společenstev a populací: kauzální analýza variability v prostoru a čase

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Diversity of Biotic Communities and Populations: Causal Analysis of variation in space and time

Citovat

AXMANOVÁ, Irena, David ZELENÝ, Ching-Feng LI and Milan CHYTRÝ. Environmental factors influencing herb layer productivity in Central European oak forests: insights from soil and biomass analyses and a phytometer experiment. Plant and Soil. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2011, vol. 342, 1-2, p. 183-194. ISSN 0032-079X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11104-010-0683-9.

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AXMANOVÁ, Irena, David ZELENÝ, Ching-Feng LI and Milan CHYTRÝ. Environmental factors influencing herb layer productivity in Central European oak forests: insights from soil and biomass analyses and a phytometer experiment. \textit{Plant and Soil}. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2011, vol.~342, 1-2, p.~183-194. ISSN~0032-079X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11104-010-0683-9.

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