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| Distribution and dynamics of multiple components of plant diversity in a high mountain area: the Ordesa-Monte Perdido National Park = Distribución y dinámica temporal de los diferentes componentes de la diversidad vegetal en la alta montaña: el Parque Nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido | |
| Pardo Guereño;Iker | |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 学位授予单位 | Universitat de Barcelona |
| 英文摘要 | Tesi realitzada a l'Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE-CSIC) The aim of this thesis was to explore the distribution of the taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional components of plant diversity in high mountains, and to show how different components of diversity have responded to land-use and climate change over the last two decades. To address this aim, we used a multiple approach at different scales, by combining information from biodiversity databases and descriptive and experimental data gathered in the field. Some methodological improvements were implemented to account for the main sources of uncertainty inherent in the baseline data. The study was conducted in the Central Pyrenees, mainly in the Ordesa-Monte Perdido National Park (OMPNP). In Chapter 1 we developed a novel method to assess the effect of the sampling effort when using information of classical databases to analyze spatial diversity patterns. Such method was used in chapter 2 to identify hotspots, and results were compared with the ones produced by an unbiased database information (standardized community surveys), Finding an overall spatial mismatch among the different diversity components at small scale (Chapter 2). Grasslands resulted to be the richest habitat in terms of species and endemisms, whereas the highest values of phylogenetic and functional diversity were observed in some forests, specially among the mixed ones. The second part of the thesis analyzed recent trends of the richest plant communities in high mountain ranges, alpine grasslands, to the generalized reduction in grazing and climate warming. In chapter 3 we compared plant community composition and tree cover in the upper limit of the treeline ecotone between 1998 and 2009. A weak effect of the increase in tree cover on the dynamics of Field layer vegetation was found, evidencing the slow response of alpine plant communities to drastic structural changes in the habitat. In chapter 4, we revisited after two decades 12 sites along an elevational gradient in two valleys of the Central Pyrenees. After accounting for the effect of the resampling error and the natural fluctuations of communities, we found that alpine grasslands were relatively stable over time at community, species and trait level. Evidences of the large ecological inertia of alpine grasslands were also Found in two experimental exclusion of herbivores set 20 years ago where species richness did not significantly differ from control grasslands (Chapter 5). Differences in the community trajectories of ungrazed and control grasslands occurred only during a sequence of warm and dry growing seasons, which led us to conclude that the effects of the grazing reduction and climate warming acted synergistically. Taken together, these results indicate that the response of alpine grasslands to land-use and climate change may be weaker and slower than expected according to predictive models and observations made in several grasslands below the treeline (rapid ecological succession after abandonment) and mountain summits (thermophilization) in the Central Pyrenees. The apparent stability of alpine grasslands depicted in our studies may revert as some tipping points are exceed. However, the smooth response of grasslands may provide a good opportunity to implement timely management actions for the conservation of this exceptionally rich habitat. The maintenance, and in some cases restoration, of traditional grazing activities, might be the simpler and more efficient strategy in the Face of global change, and perhaps the only possible to alleviate the impact of climate warming on plant diversity. En esta tesis investigamos la distribución de los componentes taxónomico, filogenético y funcional de la diversidad vegetal en la alta montaña, y cómo ha respondido a los principales motores de cambio global en montañas (cambio climático y de uso de suelo) en las últimas décadas. Para abordar estas dos cuestiones usamos una aproximación a vari |
| 英文关键词 | Ciències Experimentals i Matemàtiques 574 - Ecologia general i biodiversitat |
| 语种 | 其他 |
| URL | http://hdl.handle.net/10803/384840 |
| 来源机构 | Universitat de Barcelona |
| 资源类型 | 学位论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/250295 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Pardo Guereño;Iker. Distribution and dynamics of multiple components of plant diversity in a high mountain area: the Ordesa-Monte Perdido National Park = Distribución y dinámica temporal de los diferentes componentes de la diversidad vegetal en la alta montaña: el Parque Nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido[D]. Universitat de Barcelona,2016. |
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