期刊
PLANT ECOLOGY
卷 212, 期 2, 页码 327-342出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-010-9825-7
关键词
Arid and semi-arid rangelands; Ecological threshold; Mongolia; Non-equilibrium dynamics; Plant traits; Sustainable management
资金
- Japan's Ministry of the Environment [G-071]
- Tohoku University
We focused on responses to grazing by individual species and functional groups in relation to ecological thresholds in Mongolian rangelands, with repeated measures from the same ecological sites to account for rainfall variability. At all sites, even under rainfall fluctuations, there were robust combinations of indicator species that could be used to forewarn managers to take action to minimize the probability of crossing ecological thresholds. Depending on the landscape condition of each site, the cover of functional groups, which shared traits of perennial life history, grass or forb growth form, linear leaf shape, and alternate leaf attachment, or the cover of functional groups of woody shrubs dramatically decreased before an ecological threshold was crossed. Thus, across all sites, the responses of certain functional groups to grazing appeared to predict the crossing of an ecological threshold. The ecological indicators derived in this study should help to improve land managers' ability to prevent adverse changes in states before ecological thresholds are reached.
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