Community Ecology
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Volume 3: Issue 1
Vascular plant and epiphytic lichen communities in Canadian aspen parkland: scale-dependence of species-area relationships
Author:
H.L. Buckley Ecology and Entomology Group, Soil, Plant and Ecological Sciences Division P.O. Box 84, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand

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Pages:
59–67
Online Publication Date:
22 Jul 2005
Publication Date:
01 Jun 2002
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/comec.3.2002.1.7
Keywords:
Diversity; Diversity; Alberta; Community ecology; Richness
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Important predictors of the species richness of vascular plants and epiphytic lichens on Populus spp in the Canadian aspen parkland were determined. Plants and lichens were sampled on three scales within 100 treed patches within an area of less than 4 km2 (patch-scale and two within-patch scales). Small-scale species richness within patches was positively related to the number of species in the surrounding patch and a few measured environmental variables. This suggests that, at this scale, the species richness of these communities is limited by the availability of species in addition to local environmental conditions and species habitat preferences. For plant species richness, environmental variables that were related to light availability were most important, whereas for epiphytic lichens, variables that were related to moisture availability on trees were most important. This study adds to a growing body of literature showing that both small-scale and larger-scale processes affect species richness within communities.

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