Local characterization of vegetation through growth forms: Mediterranean Quercus ilex coppice as an example
✍ Scribed by Floret, C. ;Galan, N. J. ;Floc'h, E. ;Orshan, G. ;Romane, F.
- Book ID
- 104623350
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 575 KB
- Volume
- 71
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1573-5052
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✦ Synopsis
Growth forms are considered from two viewpoints: a descriptive and a functional one.
Mono-character growth forms and their biological spectra were used to test whether they can characterize certain underlying processes in Quercus ilex coppice in southern France.
Correspondence analysis of 35 mono-character growth forms of 203 described taxa shows that location of renewal buds is a good integrating indicator of plant adaptations to the environment.
Two of these characters (renewal bud location, Le. Raunkiaer's main life forms, and leaf consistency) appear to vary significantly along a gradient of increasing environmental constraints, especially climatic ones.