期刊
BIOTROPICA
卷 54, 期 2, 页码 301-308出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/btp.13043
关键词
climbing mechanism; dispersal limitation; habitat preference; spatial process; variation partitioning
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资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31870385, 31470470]
- CAS 135 program [2017XTBG-F01]
- CAS Light of West China program
The study found that in high elevation subtropical forests in Southwest China, the spatial distribution of lianas is mainly influenced by spatial autocorrelation, with host trees and topography playing a smaller role in explaining their spatial distribution.
Lianas are an important component of subtropical forests, but the mechanisms underlying their spatial distribution patterns have received relatively little attention. Here, we selected 12 most abundant liana species, constituting up to 96.9% of the total liana stems, in a 20-ha plot in a subtropical evergreen broadleaved forest at 2472-2628 m elevation in SW China. Combining data on topography (convexity, slope, aspect, and elevation) and host trees (density and size) of the plot, we addressed how liana distribution is shaped by host tree properties, topography and spatial autocorrelation by using principal coordinates of neighbor matrices (PCNM) analysis. We found that lianas had an aggregated distribution based on the Ripley's K function. At the community level, PCNM analysis showed that spatial autocorrelation explained 43% variance in liana spatial distribution. Host trees and topography explained 4% and 18% of the variance, but less than 1% variance after taking spatial autocorrelation into consideration. A similar trend was found at the species level. These results indicate that spatial autocorrelation might be the most important factor shaping liana spatial distribution in subtropical forest at high elevation.
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