期刊
FIRE-SWITZERLAND
卷 6, 期 7, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/fire6070265
关键词
fire ecology; fire regime; functional traits; community assembly; functional ecology; flammability; leaf economics spectrum; plant adaptations
This study investigated the influence of fire on plant communities in a mountainous grassland in Brazil. The results showed that increased fire frequency led to reduced flammability of plants and a shift towards more resource acquisition strategy.
Fire is an ecological factor that strongly influences plant communities and functional traits. Communities respond differently to fire, either decreasing or increasing in flammability and resource acquisition strategies. This study aimed to investigate the influence of fire over traits associated with flammability and the plant economic spectrum in a stressful and infertile mountainous grassland located in the Espinhaco mountain range in Brazil. Non-graminoid plant species were sampled in 60 5 m x 5 m plots distributed in three fire frequency categories. We measured several traits related to flammability-leaf dry matter content (LDMC), twig dry matter content, leaf area, bark thickness, branching architecture, plant height, leaf toughness (LT), and specific leaf area (SLA). Traits responded differently to the increase in fire frequency. For instance, the LDMC and LT were lower while the SLA was higher at high fire frequencies, indicating a trend towards reduced heat release and fire residence time. This shift resulted in the dominance of plants with a relatively more acquisitive strategy. This study brings evidence that traits respond coordinately towards a reduction of flammability with the increase in fire frequency and are strong indicators of the filtering role that fire plays as a disturbance on rupestrian grassland vegetation.
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