Claim · model-written summary
Moisture, proximity to gas vents and disturbance are the main factors controlling grassland species and community distributions.
- Taxon
- Grassland vegetatione0
- Treatment
- Moisture, proximity to gas vents, and disturbancee2
- Outcome
- species and community distributionse2
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Verbatim
e0“Grassland vegetation on the Montlake fill was analyzed using TWINSPAN”
e2“Moisture, proximity to gas vents, and disturbance are the main factors that control species and community distributions”
Title
Plant-environment on the Montlake wildlife area, Seattle, Washington, USA
C. Huang; Roger del Moral 1988
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Association Grassland species distributions are controlled primarily by moisture.
- Association Grassland species distributions are also influenced by soil pH.
- Observation Eight herb communities were recognized in the grassland vegetation.
- Observation BDA revealed complex species response patterns.
- Method / resource Multiple regressions revealed little about plant-environment relationships beyond those found by BDA.
- Recommendation The authors recommend BDA alone as an efficient, useful first approach where species response patterns are initially unknown.
- Recommendation The authors state that BDA, metric ordination with data stratification and nonmetric ordination can yield satisfactory results in exploratory plant-environment studies.