Plant trait-species abundance relationships vary with environmental properties in subtropical forests in eastern china.

Understanding how plant trait-species abundance relationships change with a range of single and multivariate environmental properties is crucial for explaining species abundance and rarity. In this study, the abundance of 94 woody plant species was examined and related to 15 plant leaf and wood trai...

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Autores principales:	En-Rong Yan, Xiao-Dong Yang, Scott X Chang, Xi-Hua Wang
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:0679f20499484b61886573d35dc356c52021-11-18T07:50:50ZPlant trait-species abundance relationships vary with environmental properties in subtropical forests in eastern china.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0061113https://doaj.org/article/0679f20499484b61886573d35dc356c52013-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23560114/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Understanding how plant trait-species abundance relationships change with a range of single and multivariate environmental properties is crucial for explaining species abundance and rarity. In this study, the abundance of 94 woody plant species was examined and related to 15 plant leaf and wood traits at both local and landscape scales involving 31 plots in subtropical forests in eastern China. Further, plant trait-species abundance relationships were related to a range of single and multivariate (PCA axes) environmental properties such as air humidity, soil moisture content, soil temperature, soil pH, and soil organic matter, nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) contents. At the landscape scale, plant maximum height, and twig and stem wood densities were positively correlated, whereas mean leaf area (MLA), leaf N concentration (LN), and total leaf area per twig size (TLA) were negatively correlated with species abundance. At the plot scale, plant maximum height, leaf and twig dry matter contents, twig and stem wood densities were positively correlated, but MLA, specific leaf area, LN, leaf P concentration and TLA were negatively correlated with species abundance. Plant trait-species abundance relationships shifted over the range of seven single environmental properties and along multivariate environmental axes in a similar way. In conclusion, strong relationships between plant traits and species abundance existed among and within communities. Significant shifts in plant trait-species abundance relationships in a range of environmental properties suggest strong environmental filtering processes that influence species abundance and rarity in the studied subtropical forests.En-Rong YanXiao-Dong YangScott X ChangXi-Hua WangPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 4, p e61113 (2013)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q En-Rong Yan Xiao-Dong Yang Scott X Chang Xi-Hua Wang Plant trait-species abundance relationships vary with environmental properties in subtropical forests in eastern china.
description	Understanding how plant trait-species abundance relationships change with a range of single and multivariate environmental properties is crucial for explaining species abundance and rarity. In this study, the abundance of 94 woody plant species was examined and related to 15 plant leaf and wood traits at both local and landscape scales involving 31 plots in subtropical forests in eastern China. Further, plant trait-species abundance relationships were related to a range of single and multivariate (PCA axes) environmental properties such as air humidity, soil moisture content, soil temperature, soil pH, and soil organic matter, nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) contents. At the landscape scale, plant maximum height, and twig and stem wood densities were positively correlated, whereas mean leaf area (MLA), leaf N concentration (LN), and total leaf area per twig size (TLA) were negatively correlated with species abundance. At the plot scale, plant maximum height, leaf and twig dry matter contents, twig and stem wood densities were positively correlated, but MLA, specific leaf area, LN, leaf P concentration and TLA were negatively correlated with species abundance. Plant trait-species abundance relationships shifted over the range of seven single environmental properties and along multivariate environmental axes in a similar way. In conclusion, strong relationships between plant traits and species abundance existed among and within communities. Significant shifts in plant trait-species abundance relationships in a range of environmental properties suggest strong environmental filtering processes that influence species abundance and rarity in the studied subtropical forests.
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author	En-Rong Yan Xiao-Dong Yang Scott X Chang Xi-Hua Wang
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title	Plant trait-species abundance relationships vary with environmental properties in subtropical forests in eastern china.
title_short	Plant trait-species abundance relationships vary with environmental properties in subtropical forests in eastern china.
title_full	Plant trait-species abundance relationships vary with environmental properties in subtropical forests in eastern china.
title_fullStr	Plant trait-species abundance relationships vary with environmental properties in subtropical forests in eastern china.
title_full_unstemmed	Plant trait-species abundance relationships vary with environmental properties in subtropical forests in eastern china.
title_sort	plant trait-species abundance relationships vary with environmental properties in subtropical forests in eastern china.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2013
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Plant trait-species abundance relationships vary with environmental properties in subtropical forests in eastern china.

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