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DOI | 10.1007/s11069-020-04002-y |
Vegetation evolution by ecological succession as a potential bioindicator of landslides relative age in Southwestern Mediterranean region | |
Lopes L.F.; Oliveira S.C.; Neto C.; Zêzere J.L. | |
发表日期 | 2020 |
ISSN | 0921030X |
起始页码 | 599 |
结束页码 | 622 |
卷号 | 103期号:1 |
英文摘要 | Landslides have a direct impact in the ecosystems dynamics being considered one of the main vegetation perturbation processes. Our objective is to determine the relation between vegetation cover evolution and time period after landslide disturbance, and therefore to assess the potential use of vegetation evolution within landslide areas as temporal bioindicators of landslide activity, in order to determine landslide relative age. Four rotational slides of known relative age, located in the Grande da Pipa River basin (Arruda dos Vinhos, Portugal) were selected. The methodology includes four main steps: (1) to identify the flora and vegetation differences between the main landslide sectors (scarp, body, foot); (2) to find out if the differences in floristic composition and vegetation structure are reflected in the succession process; (3) to find out if the succession process has produced different seral stages along the longitudinal gradients; (4) to compare the succession process in landslide affected areas with the undisturbed adjacent areas. The data points towards a slow evolution of the vegetation in the period following the disturbance, being necessary long periods for the perturbed area reach vegetation characteristics similar to the ones of the unperturbed areas. The progressive succession is rapid in the foot, slow in the body and extremely slow in the scarp. The presence of orchids in the body may be considered as an age bioindicator of more than 15 years since landslide disturbance. In the case of the older landslide (> 50 years), it corresponds to the evolved stage close to the potential natural vegetation. © 2020, Springer Nature B.V. |
关键词 | Disturbed areasLandslidesMediterranean regionPhytodiversity hotspotsRelative age bioindicatorVegetation succession |
英文关键词 | bioindicator; debris flow; environmental disturbance; landslide; slope failure; succession; vegetation structure; Arruda dos Vinhos; Lisboa [Portugal]; Portugal; Orchidaceae; Pipa |
语种 | 英语 |
来源期刊 | Natural Hazards |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/205807 |
作者单位 | Centro de Ecologia Aplicada ‘Prof. Baeta Neves’, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Tapada da Ajuda, Lisbon, 1349-017, Portugal; Centre for Geographical Studies, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, Universidade de Lisboa, Edifício IGOT, Rua Branca Edmée Marques, Lisbon, 1600-276, Portugal |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Lopes L.F.,Oliveira S.C.,Neto C.,et al. Vegetation evolution by ecological succession as a potential bioindicator of landslides relative age in Southwestern Mediterranean region[J],2020,103(1). |
APA | Lopes L.F.,Oliveira S.C.,Neto C.,&Zêzere J.L..(2020).Vegetation evolution by ecological succession as a potential bioindicator of landslides relative age in Southwestern Mediterranean region.Natural Hazards,103(1). |
MLA | Lopes L.F.,et al."Vegetation evolution by ecological succession as a potential bioindicator of landslides relative age in Southwestern Mediterranean region".Natural Hazards 103.1(2020). |
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