Classification of the high-mountain coniferous forests in Taiwan

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Publikace nespadá pod Ekonomicko-správní fakultu, ale pod Přírodovědeckou fakultu. Oficiální stránka publikace je na webu muni.cz.
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LIN Cheng-Tao LI Ching-Feng ZELENÝ David CHYTRÝ Milan NAKAMURA Yukito CHEN Ming-Yih CHEN Tze-Ying HSIA Yue-Joe HSIEH Chang-Fu LIU Ho-Yih WANG Jenn-Che YANG Sheng-Zehn YEH Ching-Long CHIOU Chyi-Rong

Rok publikování 2012
Druh Článek v odborném periodiku
Časopis / Zdroj Folia Geobotanica
Fakulta / Pracoviště MU

Přírodovědecká fakulta

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www http://www.springerlink.com/content/d604pw8227gp6452/
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12224-012-9128-y
Obor Ekologie - společenstva
Klíčová slova Braun-Blanquet approach; Phytosociology; Plant communities; Syntaxonomy; Vaccinio-Piceetea; Vegetation classification; Woodland
Popis Vegetation of boreal coniferous forests has been extensively studied in many areas of northern Eurasia and North America, but similar forests in the high mountains of subtropical and tropical eastern Asia have been poorly documented so far. This paper, focusing on such forests, is the first phytosociological study at a national scale in Taiwan. The relevés from the National Vegetation Diversity Inventory and Mapping Project database were used to define vegetation types of the high-mountain coniferous forests and to characterize their distribution in Taiwan. Environmental variables such as aspect, elevation, soil rockiness and slope were related to species composition. Cluster analysis was used to classify relevés and establish groups that were interpreted as nine associations belonging to two alliances. The alliance Juniperion squamatae represents woodlands and forests scattered in the subalpine belt, in which Juniperus squamata dominates the canopy and subalpine meadow species occur in the understory. The Abieti kawakamii-Tsugion formosanae alliance includes forests dominated by Abies kawakamii and Tsuga chinensis var. formosana with shade-tolerant herb species in the upper montane belt. In addition to regional vegetation description, an identification key for the studied forests was developed based on the classification tree technique.
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