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Species diversity and community structure of forest communities in Lishan Mountain

RU Wenming1,2;ZHANG Jintun1,3;ZHANG Feng1;ZHANG Guiping1,2;LIU Ruixiang1,2   

  1. 1Institute of Loess Plateau,Shanxi University,Taiyuan 030006,China;2Department of Biology and Chemistry,Changzhi College,Changzhi 046011,China;3College of Life Science,Beijing Normal University,Beijing 100875,China

  • Received:2005-04-27 Revised:2005-11-11 Online:2006-04-18 Published:2006-04-18

Abstract: Lishan Mountain is belonged to the Zhongtiao Ranges in Southeast Shanxi,and situated between 35°16′30″~35°27′20″N and 111°51′~112°5′35″E.The climate is cool and arid in winter,but warm and rainy in summer.This paper studied the species diversity and community structure of forest communities there,based on field investigation data and by using diversity,richness and evenness indices.The results showed that the species diversity and evenness of the communities were in the order of Acer davidii + Acer mono>Acer davidii+Carpinus turczaninouii>Quercus liaolugensis>Quercus varibilis> Pinus armandii + Betula albo-sinensis>Pinus tabulaeformis + Quercus glandulifera>Betula platyphylla>Platycladus orientalis + Quercus variabilis>Betula albosinensis>Pinus armandii>Platycladus orientalis>Pinus tabulaeformis>Populus davidiana + Betula albo-sinensis.The diversity and richness of shrub layer were higher than those of herb layer and arbor layer,but the evenness of arbor,shrub and herb layers had no significant difference.There were positive correlations (P<0.05) between Shannon-Wiener index,Hill index,and species richness from 1 000 m to 1 920 m above sea level,but negative correlations (P<0.05) from 1 920 m to the top of the Mountain.The species diversity showed a “mid-altitude bulge” pattern with the change of altitude,and the reason was that the combination of temperature and moisture conditions from 1 000 m to 1 920 m above sea level was improved,and human disturbance was decreased gradually.

Key words: Isolated tree, Permeability, Wind velocity field, Wind tunnel experiment