Community characteristics of Pinus armandi forest on Qinling Mountains

Abstract

Abstract: The community characteristics of Pinus armandi forest distributed on the mid-west zone of Qinling Mountains' south slope were investigated.The results showed that there were 166 seed plants belonging to 51 families,111generas.Among them,65 genera,66.7% of the total,belonged to temperate biome.There was a closely relationship between Pinus armandi forest and the temperate biome.As regards to the physiognomy of the community,phanerophyte made up 75.9% of the total,dominating the community.In the community,96 species with middle-sized leaves made up 57.8%,and there were 139 single leaf species,accounted for 83.7% of the total.There was a complicated vertical structure in the community,which could be divided into three layers:arbor layer,shrub layer and herb layer.In addition,there were also a lot of inter-stratum plants in the community.It is also found that the lack of seedlings,saplings and small trees was due to both the self-thinning caused by intra-specific competition and the alien-thinning by inter-specific competition for the light resource in the stand.The population of P.armandi was characterized with the patch size about 100 m².The dynamics of the community showed that the community was stable and in a process of development.

CLC Number:

S791.24

WANG Dexiang, LIU Jianjun, LI Dengwu, LEI Ruide, LAN Guoyu. Community characteristics of Pinus armandi forest on Qinling Mountains[J]. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 2004, (3): 357-362.

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