Claim · model-written summary
Litter cover and the total cover of field and moss layers are the environmental variables determining the variation structure of the samples.
- Taxon
- plant communitiese1
- Treatment
- amount (cover) of litter and the total cover of field and moss layerse2
- Outcome
- variation structure of samplese2
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingDirectionValueQualifier
Verbatim
e1“39 plant communities were described and thereafter classified into 7 syntaxonomic units”
e2“Environmental variables determining the variation structure of samples are the amount (cover) of litter and the total cover of field and moss layers”
Title
On sand knobs vegetation in Verhulitsa-Lutepää region, South-Eastern Estonia
Jaanus Paal; Kaie Kurg; Taimi Paal Forestry Studies / Metsanduslikud Uurimused 2008. doi:10.2478/v10132-011-0065-y
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation 39 plant communities of Estonian inland sand knobs were described and classified into 7 syntaxonomic units.
- Association Species richness of the communities depends mostly on the amount of litter.
- Association Species richness depends marginally insignificantly on humus horizon thickness (p = 0,051).
- Observation 415 quadrats of the sand knob vegetation were clustered into 23 microcoenose types.
- Observation The most frequent microcoenoses are those of Cladina arbuscula with Pycnothelia papillaria, Festuca ovina, or Festuca ovina with Pilosella officinarum.
- Observation Microcoenoses of any type are confined to only one type of plant community.
- Recommendation To maintain the features of Estonian inland sand knob plant communities, they must be kept open and the dense bottom layer vegetation removed in some places.