| Title |
Soil shapes community structure through fire
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Oecologia, January 2010
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| DOI | 10.1007/s00442-009-1550-3 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Fernando Ojeda, Juli G. Pausas, Miguel Verdú |
| Abstract |
Recurrent wildfires constitute a major selecting force in shaping the structure of plant communities. At the regional scale, fire favours phenotypic and phylogenetic clustering in Mediterranean woody plant communities. Nevertheless, the incidence of fire within a fire-prone region may present strong variations at the local, landscape scale. This study tests the prediction that woody communities on acid, nutrient-poor soils should exhibit more pronounced phenotypic and phylogenetic clustering patterns than woody communities on fertile soils, as a consequence of their higher flammability and, hence, presumably higher propensity to recurrent fire. Results confirm the predictions and show that habitat filtering driven by fire may be detected even in local communities from an already fire-filtered regional flora. They also provide a new perspective from which to consider a preponderant role of fire as a key evolutionary force in acid, infertile Mediterranean heathlands. |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 5 | 4% |
| Spain | 3 | 2% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 1% |
| United States | 2 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Argentina | 1 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 117 | 87% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 32 | 24% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 23 | 17% |
| Professor | 10 | 7% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 6% |
| Other | 31 | 23% |
| Unknown | 20 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 68 | 51% |
| Environmental Science | 31 | 23% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 4 | 3% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 1% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 2 | 1% |
| Other | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 26 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
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#4
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