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Floristic richness of three perhumid New Zealand alpine plant communities in comparison with other regionsстатья
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- Авторы: Onipchenko V., Mark A.F., Wells G.
- Журнал: Austral Ecology
- Том: 30
- Номер: 5
- Год издания: 2005
- Издательство: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
- Местоположение издательства: United Kingdom
- Первая страница: 518
- Последняя страница: 525
- DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2005.01466.x
- Аннотация: Results are presented on vascular species richness in three representative alpine plant communities at 1040-1410 m on Mt Burns in the perhumid Fiordland region, a hotspot of alpine plant diversity, in south-western South Island, New Zealand. Overall species richness was not dissimilar between the three communities in any of the eight plot sizes (mean values of 20.8-24.4 species in the largest plots of 100 m(2)), even though coefficients of floristic similarity were small (17.9; 23.5) between both low-alpine communities (snow tussock-shrubland and snow tussock grassland) and the high-alpine cushion fellfield. Vascular species richness was generally similar to that in the few other oceanic New Zealand alpine communities for which data are available. The decline in richness from the low-alpine to high-alpine zones, revealed in more comprehensive records from two other regions with generally similar oceanic environments, was not recorded, indeed was reversed, on Mt Burns. Whether the recognized biodiversity hotspot of Fiordland has a generally richer high-alpine flora than other regions in New Zealand needs further examination. The general pattern of alpine floristic richness in relation to elevation, in New Zealand, also prevails in most alpine regions abroad, usually under much more extreme continental environments. This pattern is usually ascribed to the associated decrease in temperature. Both the small size of the land mass and/or associated environmental conditions may be implicated but clarification awaits further data, preferably collected with standardized procedures.
- Добавил в систему: Онипченко Владимир Гертрудович