Effects of islanding on plant species diversity in Thousand-island Lake region

Abstract

Abstract: In this paper,the typical area of fragmentation in Thousand-island Lake region was selected to study the effects of islanding on plant species diversity after reservoir built.26 quadrates were installed on 18 small,medium and large islands to investigate the species and number of trees and shrubs,with inland as the control One-way variance analysis (ANOVA) showed that the species richness of trees was significantly different (F=13.055,P=0.000) among all kinds of islands,which was significantly higher on large islands than on small and medium ones,but not significantly different from that on inland.The species richness of shrubs was not significantly different among all kinds of islands and inland.Spearman correlation analysis showed that the species richness of trees was significantly positively correlated with island area,while the correlation between specie richness of shrubs and island area was not significant.Shannon-Wiener Index (H) analysis suggested that the diversity of both trees and shrubs on large islands was the highest,followed by on inland,but the diversity of shrubs was larger on small than on medium islands.The analysis of Simpson index and Pielou index showed that the species evenness of trees was the highest,but the dominance was the lowest on medium and large islands,while the species evenness of shrubs was the highest on medium and small islands,but the dominance was the lowest on small islands.

Key words: Thousand-Island Lake, Landscape fragmentation, Biodiversity, Tree, Shrub

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LU Jianbo, DING Lizhong, XU Gaofu . Effects of islanding on plant species diversity in Thousand-island Lake region[J]. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 2005, 16(9): 1672-1676.

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