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Spatial and temporal variation of community composition and species cover following dune restoration in the Devesa de Albufera (Valencia, Spain).

2015

Plant populations were reintroduced to the coastal dune bar of the Devesa de Albufera from 1988 to 2004; different coastline sections received different species composition and cover. With the aim to detect spatial and temporal variation of floristic diversity, we compared current species composition and cover across the length of the Devesa and across the dune bar with those imposed at the time of restoration. Non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) detected significant differences both across the dune faces and across the coast sections. Differences across the dune faces reflect the sea-inland ecological gradient and resulted from a spatial rearrangement of plant populations: Calystegi…

0106 biological sciencesdune restorationEvolutionMalcolmia littoreaLagurus ovatusCoastal sand dunes; dune restoration; Mediterranean sea; spatial dynamics; temporal dynamics; Plant Science; Ecology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsPlant Science010603 evolutionary biology01 natural sciencesCalystegia soldanellaFloristicsMediterranean seaBehavior and SystematicsEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsAchillea maritimaspatial dynamicsEcologybiologyEcologytemporal dynamicsPlant communitybiology.organism_classificationGeographyCommunity compositionCoastal sand dunesMediterranean sea010606 plant biology & botanyPlant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology
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What do leaf anatomy and micromorphology tell us about the psammophilous Pancratium maritimum (Amaryllidaceae) in response to sand dune conditions?

2015

Abstract The present study aimed at verifying the morphological variation in leaf traits among different populations of Pancratium maritimum (sea daffodil) and the correlation between leaf diversity and climate conditions at different sites. Eleven populations of P. maritimum from Mediterranean coastal sand dunes were investigated with respect to leaf surface micro-morphology, leaf anatomy, and vascular pattern. Morphometric analysis was based on 29 quantitative foliar parameters. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), principal component analysis (PCA), discriminant function analysis (DFA), and clustering by Ward’s method were used for the statistical evaluation. Results revealed a rather u…

Mediterranean climatePancratium maritimumPlant SciencePlant anatomyPhenotypic plasticityBiologySand dune stabilizationBotanySea daffodilLeaf micromorphologyWater-use efficiencyEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsPancratium maritimumMediterranean coastal sand dunePhenotypic plasticityVascular patternEcologyLeaf anatomyfungifood and beveragesAmaryllidaceaeAnatomybiology.organism_classificationPlant morphologyLeaf anatomy; Leaf micromorphology; Mediterranean coastal sand dunes; Pancratium maritimum; Psammophyte; Vascular patternLeaf traitPsammophyte
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