Plant functional traits can be a useful tool for studying
the response of plant species to changes in the environment. In our research we
analyzed changes in plant functional traits and in life form according to the
age of forest gap and thus to the individual successional stage. Our research
was done at five forest gaps in Dinaric fir–beech forest in Slovenia. The
forest gaps were created as a result of natural disturbances but were in
different successional stage. For the analyze we choose main 18 functional
plant traits, whose values were obtained from the BiolFlor database. With the
help of the JUICE program, we calculated the frequency of occurrence individual
forest gaps for each functional plant trait. Then, we calculated Spearman’s
correlation coefficient at p < 0.05 between the occurrence of individual
functional plant traits and each forest gap. The forest gap, which
statistically differed from the others in the most functional plant traits
(16), was the youngest one. Our research showed that colonizing plant species
are primarily those that start flowering in June and July, and flower at least
two months, are pollinated by insects, mainly hover flies and wild bees. This
colonizing plant species reproduce via seeds or spores and vegetatively. They mostly
belong to the perennials and herbaceous perennials and chamaephytes.
Author(s) Details:
Blanka Ravnjak,
Faculty of Biotechnical, University Botanic Gardens Ljubljana, 1000
Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Jože Bavcon,
Faculty of
Biotechnical, University Botanic Gardens Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Andraž Carni,
Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts, Jovan
Hadzi Institute of Biology, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia and School for Viticulture
and Enology, University of Nova Gorica, 5000 Nova Gorica, Slovenia.
Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/IBS-V2/article/view/14135
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