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Relationships between distribution of soil-born bryophytes in urban area of Hangzhou and related ecological factors.

LIU Yan1,2;CAO Tong1,3;WANG Jian3;CAO Yang4   

  1. 1Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China;2Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China; 3College of Life & Environmental Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China; 4College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200240, China
  • Received:2007-09-14 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2008-04-20 Published:2008-04-20

Abstract: At the 21 sampling sites in urban area of Hangzhou, 47 species of soil-born bryophytes belonging to 31 genera and 22 families were recorded. Based on the ecological importance value of these species and the data of ecological factors at the sampling sites, the relationships between the distribution of the bryophytes species in urban area of Hangzhou and related ecological factors were studied by canonical correspondence analysis. The results showed that human disturbance and soil pH were the most important factors determining the distribution of the bryophytes. In urban parks and green lands where human disturbance was greater, soil pH was alkali, and the species were mainly belonging to the genera of Haplocladium and Bryum and the family of Pottiaceae. In hilly area where human disturbance was lesser, soil pH turned to acidic, and the bryophytes were more, with pleurocarpous mosses and liverworts being relatively rich. The niche width of the 47 bryophytes was calculated, which revealed that most of them had very narrow niche width (<0.1). The Pseudotaxiphyllum pohliaecarpum widely distributed in the hilly area of southwest Xihu Lake had the widest niche width (0.3510), followed by Trichostomum planifolium (0.2239) and Haplocladium microphyllum (0.2185), the commonest species in the parks and greenlands in urban area of Hangzhou.

Key words: multidimensional poverty, coupling coordination degree, interaction mechanism, eco-environmental vulnerability, coupling degree