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. 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.

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

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 10600 1.6 Biological sciences
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: 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
• Tags: AKR, rivok
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

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