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New Multicentury Evidence for Dispersal Limitation during Primary Succession
Title: | New Multicentury Evidence for Dispersal Limitation during Primary Succession |
Authors: | Kobayashi, Makoto1 Browse this author →KAKEN DB | Wilson, Scott D. Browse this author |
Authors(alt): | K., Makoto1 |
Keywords: | arctic | biomass | ecosystem development | foreland | glacier | growth form | soil C | sorted circle |
Issue Date: | Jun-2016 |
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
Journal Title: | American naturalist |
Volume: | 187 |
Issue: | 6 |
Start Page: | 804 |
End Page: | 811 |
Publisher DOI: | 10.1086/686199 |
Abstract: | Primary succession is limited by both ecosystem development and plant dispersal, but the extent to which dispersal constrains succession over the long-term is unknown. We compared primary succession along two co-occurring arctic chronosequences with contrasting spatial scales: sorted circles that span a few meters and may have few dispersal constraints and glacial forelands that span several kilometers and may have greater dispersal constraints. Dispersal constraints slowed primary succession by centuries: plots were dominated by cryptogams after 20 years on circles but after 270 years on forelands; plots supported deciduous plants after 100 years on circles but after >400 years on forelands. Our study provides century-scale evidence suggesting that dispersal limitations constrain the rate of primary succession in glacial forelands. |
Type: | article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/65888 |
Appears in Collections: | 北方生物圏フィールド科学センター (Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere) > 雑誌発表論文等 (Peer-reviewed Journal Articles, etc)
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Submitter: 小林 真
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