油松(Pinus tabulaeformis)人工林林下植被发育对油松生长节律的响应

林下植被作为森林生态系统的一个重要组成部分,对维持林分结构和土壤质量起着重要作用.不同年龄树种对林下植被发育的影响已有所涉及,但这些为数不多的研究往往割裂了林木种群的生长规律与其林下植被间的相互作用,以林龄为尺度探讨林下植被发育的差异必然掩盖了林分种群对林下植被作用的异质性.采用时序研究法,按照油松(Pinus tabulaeformis)高速生期、径速生期、材积慢生期和材积速生期等不同发育时期,探讨林下植被组成、多样性、生物量和元素积累量的差异性.结果表明,高速生期阶段油松与林下植被竞争最为激烈,林下植被物种丰富度、多样性、生物量、元素积累量均最低.因此,高速生期阶段应及时对油松采取较大强度的抚育间伐以缓和油松种群与林下植被剧烈竞争的关系.径速生阶段林下植被与油松竞争最为缓和,草本层Gleason、Shannon-Wiener、Pielow指数由高生长阶段的7.817、2.222和0.769剧增到19.978、3.470和0.907,灌木层、草本层地上部分生物量、元素积累量也均达到最大.径速生阶段对油松林分的管理可相对粗放一些.进入材积阶段,油松与林下植被的关系日趋紧张.材积慢生阶段灌木层、草本层生物量由径速生期的2 262.61、461.92 kg/hm2分别下降至1 549.85、 220.84 kg/hm2,而灌木层Gleason、Shannon-Wiener指数均达到峰值.相对于材积慢生期,材积速生期灌木层、草本层物种多样性指数、元素积累量进一步下降,而生物量略有上升,材积速生期阶段应对油松林分适度间伐或主伐.可见,林下植被可作为人工纯林乔木生长规律的指示剂,根据林下植被发育状况选择林分经营方式具有一定的参考价值.     

宁南山区华北落叶松林下草本层群落特征及其影响因素

林下草本植物是森林生态系统的基本组成要素,对森林的更新、生态系统结构、功能的维持和提升具有重要作用,理解林下草本层群落特征及其影响因素,有助于构建理想的林-草结合模式。本研究以宁南山区泾源县无人为干扰的华北落叶松林人工林、间伐处理的华北落叶松林人工林和华北落叶松与白桦自然混交林为研究对象,探究林下草本层群落特征(物种多样性和地上生物量)及其与土壤理化特性(土壤容重、含水量、全碳含量、全氮含量及全磷含量)和林分结构(密度和郁闭度)的关系。结果表明：(1)与人工林相比,自然混交林林下草本植物组成最丰富(34种),且物种多样性和地上生物量也最高;(2)自然混交林林下土壤特性均优于人工林,但间伐处理的人工林林下土壤特性较无人为干扰的人工林土壤特性有显著提高;(3)冗余分析表明,林下草本层物种多样性主要与土壤含水量、土壤全碳、全氮和全磷含量呈正相关,与土壤容重、林分密度和郁闭度呈负相关,且林分密度、0～20 cm土层含水量对林下草本物种多样性有显著影响(P<0.05);(4)回归分析结果表明,0～20 cm土层的土壤特性、物种丰富度和优势度、林分密度及郁闭度显著影响林下草本地上生物量的积累...     

南亚热带人工马尾松林下植物组成特征及主要木本种群生态位研究

1引言物种多样性是生态系统的重要特征并维持系统的功能运行,生物多样性与生态系统抵御逆境和抗干扰能力有关,多样性的提高会增强系统的稳定性及生态服务功能[4,5,13,14,24,25,32,36].林下植被在维持森林物种多样性、立地指示、水土保持、促进人工林养分循环、维护林地地力和揭示植被演替特征等方面具有不可忽视的作用[3,12,19,20,35].马尾松(Pinus massoniana)是我国南亚热带地区的主要针叶林之一,由于人为活动(造林、抚育、樵采等)对人工林下物种丰富度干扰很大,造成了森林的严重退化[33,34,37],不利于人工林的可持续发展.南亚热带植被的…     

林分结构对湖南栎类天然次生林林下植被生物量的影响

对湖南栎类天然次生林不同林分类型的林下植被生物量特征及其影响因素进行研究。结果表明: 将50块样地划分为甜槠-鹿角杜鹃混交林、亮叶水青冈-箭竹混交林、石栎-虎刺+山茶混交林、甜储+枹栎-鹿角杜鹃混交林、青冈栎-油茶+杜鹃混交林5种林分类型。5种林分的林下植被生物量均较低,不超过2.3 t·hm^-2。5种林分类型的林下灌木生物量没有显著差异,甜槠-鹿角杜鹃混交林草本层生物量显著低于其他4种林分类型。影响不同林分林下植被生物量的因素不同。在甜槠-鹿角杜鹃混交林,草本层生物量与郁闭度、角尺度呈显著负相关,林下植被总体生物量与开敞度呈显著正相关;在亮叶水青冈-箭竹混交林,灌木层生物量与林分的角尺度、郁闭度呈显著负相关,草本层生物量与林下植被总体生物量与混交度呈显著正相关;在石栎-虎刺+山茶混交林,草本层生物量与林分的聚集指数呈显著正相关;在甜储+枹栎-鹿角杜鹃混交林,灌木层生物量与林分的混交度呈显著负相关,草本层生物量与林分的株数密度呈显著正相关;而在青冈栎-油茶+杜鹃混交林,林分结构与林下生物量没有显著相关关系。对林下植被生物量进行调整,应该以调整林分水平分布格局为主,综合考虑林分遮盖程度与树种结构。     

林火干扰对北方针叶林林下植被的影响

林下植被在北方针叶林植被群落中的物种多样性最高, 且具有较高的生物量周转率和地上部分净初级生产力, 对北方针叶林生态系统功能起着重要作用。火干扰是决定北方针叶林林下植被结构与功能的一个重要景观过程。该文综述了火干扰是如何通过与地形、火前林冠组成的交互作用而影响环境资源和林下植被的。最近的研究表明: 林下植被能够影响火后树木更新苗的定植、重建速率及森林演替轨迹; 林下植被还会通过影响元素的生物地球化学过程(凋落物降解和养分循环)影响林下环境资源的数量与异质性。因此, 研究火后初期北方针叶林林下植被的动态变化, 对于物种多样性保护和森林管理具有重要意义。     

黑龙江省大兴安岭主要森林生态系统 生物量分配特征

大兴安岭林区是我国重要的森林资源分布区,森林生物量和碳储量巨大,对于维持东北地区生态系统碳平衡具有重要意义。本文基于野外样地调查数据,分析了大兴安岭地区林分尺度上森林生态系统的生物量及其分配特征、生物量各组分间的数量关系,并利用CANOCO 4.5对调查样地进行排序轴分类,划分了7种典型的植物群落,探讨了群落生态系统生物量分配特征差异及其与环境因子的关系。结果表明:大兴安岭地区森林生态系统生物量密度范围为17.83~283.93 t·hm-2,生物量密度均值由大到小为蒙古栎林兴安落叶松林樟子松林。相比蒙古栎林,针叶林地下生物量和凋落物层生物量比重较大,且在海拔梯度上,植物群落的地理分布和生物量分配特征差异明显。     

辽河源自然保护区不同年龄天然油松林林下草本层植物物种多样性及其环境解释

林下草本层植物在森林群落结构稳定性的调节和生态功能的发挥上具有非常重要的作用,是森林生态系统不可或缺的组成部分。本文从揭示天然林林下物种组成的主导因子出发,以不同年龄天然油松林林下草本层植物为研究对象,探讨了辽河源自然保护区林下草本层物种组成与环境因子间的相关关系。结果表明,林龄是影响林分土壤化学性质的空间变化的重要因子,但林龄与林下草本植物的物种丰富度和多样性指数间不存在线性关系。CCA排序及Monte Carlo检验结果表明,林龄、林分密度、平均胸径、郁闭度、坡度为显著影响天然油松林林下物种分布的因子,说明该地区林分的冠层结构特征主导了林下草本层植物群落的分布格局。     

四川柏木人工林林下植被生物量与林分结构的关系

森林结构与林下植被生物量的关系是森林持续经营与森林碳计量监测的科学基础,但一直缺乏必要的研究。以四川柏木(Cupressus funebris)人工林为研究对象,揭示林下植被生物量(Wu)、灌木生物量(Ws)和草本生物量(Wh)与林分结构的关系,并试图构建区域性林下植被生物量估测的混合模型。结果表明:(1)乔、灌、草群体共12个结构因子中,灌木群体的平均基径(Ds)、盖度(Cs)、高度(Hs)、体积(Vs)与林下植被生物量关系更紧密,在林下植被生物量模型构建中更有效;(2)多模型拟合与比较表明,柏木林Ws最佳估算模型为Ws=0.0005V1.0411s(R2a=0.762,P0.001,n=40),而Wu的最佳估算模型为ln Wu=0.0158Hs+0.0111Cs-0.5358(R2a=0.695,P0.001,n=40),但对于Wh未能获得较为理想的估算模型(R2a0.410,P0.01,n=40);(3)林分密度(Du)整合进入多元线性模型提高了林下植被生物量的估测精度,ln Wu=a+b Du+c Hs+d Cs(R2a=0.721,P0.001,n=40)。研究为区域性林下生物量估测模型构建提供了新论据。     

不同密度杉木林对林下植被和土壤微生物群落结构的影响

为揭示土壤养分和细菌群落对林下植被调控的响应机制, 调查了浙江开化3种林分密度(高密度(KH)、中密度(KM)和低密度(KL))的17年生杉木人工林林下植被和生物量, 测定土壤理化性质, 并基于16S rDNA高通量测序技术分析细菌群落结构变化。结果表明, 3种密度的杉木林下植被地上部分总生物量为0.10-2.10 t·hm^-2, 且优势植物物种差异显著。理化性质测定分析发现, 高密度与低密度林分的土壤pH、有效磷含量差异显著。相关性分析表明, 土壤pH与林下植被中草本、灌木生物量及总生物量均呈显著正相关关系, 土壤有机质含量与灌木植被生物量及林下植被总生物量呈显著正相关关系, 速效钾含量与灌木植被生物量呈显著正相关关系。土壤微生物群落结构分析可知, 3种密度杉木林地土壤中酸杆菌门、变形菌门、放线菌门和绿弯菌门为优势菌群, 总相对丰度占比超过80%。冗余分析(RDA)表明土壤pH、碱解氮、有效磷和速效钾含量是土壤细菌群落结构变化的关键影响因素。酸杆菌门的优势亚群为Gp2、Gp1、Gp3和Gp6, 占酸杆菌群的51.32%-57.38%, 且随林分密度降低, 林下植被增多, Gp1占比增大, Gp2和Gp6占比下降; Gp6相对丰度与pH呈极显著负相关关系。可见, 杉木纯林经营中适度降低林分密度有利于林下植被生长和良好细菌群落结构保持, 有利于维持杉木林地土壤肥力, 实现可持续经营。     

中亚热带杉木人工幼林林下植被生物量对短期增温和隔离降雨交互作用的响应

通过在野外条件下设置对照(CT)、土壤增温(W,+5℃)、隔离降雨(P,隔离50%降雨量)以及增温与隔离降雨协同作用(WP) 4种处理,研究增温与隔离降雨及其交互作用对中亚热带杉木人工林林下植被生物量的影响,结果表明:增温和隔离降雨及其交互作用显著影响杉木人工林林下植被生物量。W和WP处理显著提高地上、地下和总生物量,其中W处理地上、地下和总生物量增加比例均高于WP处理;隔离降雨导致地下部分生物量显著减少;增温、隔离降雨及其交互作用均导致林下植被根冠比值下降。土壤温度升高是导致植被地上、地下和总生物量以及根冠比值变化的根本原因,而土壤溶液中可溶性碳氮及矿质元素浓度的变化可能是导致植被地上、地下和总生物量变化的直接原因。其中,Al~(3+)、Fe~(3+)、Ca~(2+)浓度的降低可能是导致增温后杉木林林下植被地上、地下和总生物量显著增加的原因; Al~(3+)、Na~+浓度的增加可能是导致隔离降雨后林下植被地下部分生物量下降的原因。本研究从土壤溶液养分组成变化的角度,探讨增温、隔离降雨及其交互作用对中亚热带杉木幼林林下植被生物量的影响,研究结果可为全球气候变化背景下森林生态系统碳循环研究与森林经营提供重要理论依据。     

Understory Plant Community Composition Is Associated with Fine-Scale Above- and Below-Ground Resource Heterogeneity in Mature Lodgepole Pine (Pinus contorta) Forests

Understory plant communities play critical ecological roles in forest ecosystems. Both above- and below-ground ecosystem properties and processes influence these communities but relatively little is known about such effects at fine (i.e., one to several meters within-stand) scales, particularly for forests in which the canopy is dominated by a single species. An improved understanding of these effects is critical for understanding how understory biodiversity is regulated in such forests and for anticipating impacts of changing disturbance regimes. Our primary objective was to examine the patterns of fine-scale variation in understory plant communities and their relationships to above- and below-ground resource and environmental heterogeneity within mature lodgepole pine forests. We assessed composition and diversity of understory vegetation in relation to heterogeneity of both the above-ground (canopy tree density, canopy and tall shrub basal area and cover, downed wood biomass, litter cover) and below-ground (soil nutrient availability, decomposition, forest floor thickness, pH, and phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs) and multiple carbon-source substrate-induced respiration (MSIR) of the forest floor microbial community) environment. There was notable variation in fine-scale plant community composition; cluster and indicator species analyses of the 24 most commonly occurring understory species distinguished four assemblages, one for which a pioneer forb species had the highest cover levels, and three others that were characterized by different bryophyte species having the highest cover. Constrained ordination (distance-based redundancy analysis) showed that two above-ground (mean tree diameter, litter cover) and eight below-ground (forest floor pH, plant available boron, microbial community composition and function as indicated by MSIR and PLFAs) properties were associated with variation in understory plant community composition. These results provide novel insights into the important ecological associations between understory plant community composition and heterogeneity in ecosystem properties and processes within forests dominated by a single canopy species.     

Spatial heterogeneity of understory vegetation and soil in an Alaskan upland boreal forest fire chronosequence

In this study we characterized spatial heterogeneity of soil carbon and nitrogen pools, soil moisture, and soil pH of the first 15?cm of the soil profile; depth of the organic horizon; forest floor covers; and understory vegetation abundances in three sites (1999, 1987 and 1920 wildfires) of a boreal forest chronosequence of interior Alaska. We also investigated the cross-dependence between understory vegetation distribution and soil characteristics. Our results showed higher microbial respiration rates and microbial biomass in the oldest site and greater net N mineralization rates in the mid-successional site. Although spatial heterogeneity was absent at the scale studied for the majority of soil variables (60%), understory vegetation abundances and forest floor cover, spatial heterogeneity decreased with time after fire for the depth of organic horizon, soil microbial biomass, N mineralization rates and feathermoss cover. Our results also showed that increasing time after fire decreased the number of correlations between understory vegetation and soil characteristics while it increased between forest floor covers and soil characteristics. Overall, our study suggest that fire initially creates a patchy mosaic of forest floor cover, from fire hot spots, where high intensity burning exposes mineral soil, to practically unburned areas with intact mosses and lichens. As time since fire passes, forest floor cover and soil characteristics tend to become more uniform as understory species fill in severely burned areas.     

Effects of different Rhododendron control methods in eastern beech (Fagus orientalis Lipsky) ecosystems in the western Black Sea region of Turkey

Intensive weed control and plot preparation practices have become a critical and integral part of productive beech forest management in Turkey’s coastal Black Sea region (BSR). This study was conducted in an eastern beech forest of 100+ year old in the BSR to evaluate ecosystem effects of three different experimental Rhododendron ponticum understory control methods with a randomised block design, including manual grubbing, foliar and cut stump spraying with imazapyr (Arsenal) and foliar and cut stump spraying with triclopyr (Garlon). Untreated vegetation plots served as controls. Evaluation of these treatments included their effects on understory and forest floor biomass and nutrients (C, N, P, S, K, Ca and Mg) and effects on soils, including bulk density, pH, soil nutrients (C, N, P and S), exchangeable cations (K, Ca and Mg) and soil cation exchange capacity (CEC). Grubbing and imazapyr treatments had greatly reduced the amount of understory biomass 5 years after application (P = 0.002). Triclopyr treatment also had a major effect on understory vegetation control, but by 5 years later, about 10% of the rhododendron originally present on these plots had gradually re‐sprouted and partially covered the plots. Five years after woody vegetation control treatments, at the 0‐ to 20‐cm depth, treatments did not appear to affect soil bulk density, pH and CEC. For the upper 20‐cm soil depth, the exchangeable soil K concentration at the 10‐ to 20‐cm depth on triclopyr‐treated plots was 33% higher than on grubbing plots, and it was twice that of imazapyr application plots. Imazapyr plots had almost 11 times more dead organic matter on the forest floor than there was on grubbing plots. Forest floor C concentrations on imazapyr plots were 26 and 14% greater than those on grubbing and triclopyr plots, respectively. Total ecosystem (forest floor + understory + soil exchangeable) Ca content was 50% higher on imazapyr plots than that on triclopyr plots, while the ecosystem K pool on imazapyr treatment plots was 27% lower than that on triclopyr plots. Herbicides can be used as an alternative for achieving some forest management objectives when other vegetation control methods are not feasible or economical. It is recommended that vegetation control not be used on steep slopes because of greater risk of soil erosion. There may be benefits in encouraging slash disposal by fire after imazapyr treatments, thus removing recalcitrant understory residues left on the forest floor and releasing the essential nutrients within them.     

西南桦人工林与山地雨林的群落学特征比较

人类活动对生态系统的影响是当今生态学的研究热点之一, 但对在退化生态系统上进行人工造林对地带性植被群落学特征的影响研究尚较欠缺。本文根据组成群落的植物生态学特征能对其生态环境做出准确的反应这一规则, 通过样地调查法分析了林龄为12年的西南桦(Betula alnoides)人工群落的区系组成和基本的群落学特征, 并与当地的地带性植被——山地雨林的区系组成和群落学特征进行了比较, 从而探讨人工造林对当地天然生态系统的影响。结果发现, 与天然群落相比, 人类活动(人工种植西南桦林)对生态系统的植物物种的生活型谱、物种叶型谱、区系成分、物种多样性等方面的群落学特征影响不大;即使在这些方面有或多或少的差异, 可能也是小环境的异质性造成的。但是人工种植西南桦林对群落的季相外貌、群落的结构、物种组成、物种丰富度以及生物量等方面有较大的影响。进行综合分析后得出结论: 虽然人工造林可以缩短植被自然恢复的时间以及具有显著的经济价值, 但与地带性植被相比, 还是有较大的生态学差异。建议为了当地经济的发展, 有必要适当发展一定面积的人工林, 但规模应适度。     

连栽杉木林林下植被生物量动态格局

用空间一致时间连续的定位研究方法,在湖南会同杉木林生态系统国家野外科学观测研究站试验基地的第2集水区,对连栽杉木林林下植被生物量进行了12 a的监测,研究了林下植被种类的变化、生物量动态特征、生物量的组成与分布变化格局。结果表明:连栽杉木林在14a生长发育过程中,林下植物种类呈现波动性的减少趋势,其中木本植物物种数下降率为40.0%,草本植物物种数下降率为47.1%。林下植被生物量由杉木林3年生29.48 t/hm²下降至14年生的2.53 t/hm²,其中木本植物生物量由7.07 t/hm²,下降至1.25 t/hm²,下降了82.3%;草本植物由22.41 t/hm²,下降至1.28 t/hm²,下降了94.3%。在此期间,木本与草本植物生物量的高低均出现波动现象。3年生杉木林下木本植物以乔木树种生物量6068.97 kg/hm²最高,占总生物量85.88%,藤本植物生物量736.97 kg/hm²为次,占10.44%,灌木植物生物量259.87 kg/hm²最低,仅占3.68%。14年生杉木林下木本植物以灌木植物生物量881.87 kg/hm²为首,占总生物量70.73%,藤本植物生物量247.07 kg/hm²为次,占19.82%,乔木树种生物量117.87 kg/hm²最少,只占9.45%。3年生杉木林下草本植物以蕨类植物生物量8391.44 kg/hm²最高,占总生物量的37.44%,过路黄生物量36.77 kg/hm²最低,仅占0.16%。杉木14年生时,以芒生物量573.00 kg/hm²最大,占总生物量44.78%,金毛耳草生物量2.93 kg/hm²最小,仅占0.23%。研究结果,可为研究杉木林养分循环、碳平衡、维护和提高林地地力及可持续经营管理提供科学依据。     

Response to CO2 enrichment of understory vegetation in the shade of forests

Responses of forest ecosystems to increased atmospheric CO₂ concentration have been studied in few free‐air CO₂ enrichment (FACE) experiments during last two decades. Most studies focused principally on the overstory trees with little attention given to understory vegetation. Despite its small contribution to total productivity of an ecosystem, understory vegetation plays an important role in predicting successional dynamics and future plant community composition. Thus, the response of understory vegetation in Pinus taeda plantation at the Duke Forest FACE site after 15–17 years of exposure to elevated CO₂, 6–13 of which with nitrogen (N) amendment, was examined. Aboveground biomass and density of the understory decreased across all treatments with increasing overstory leaf area index (LAI). However, the CO₂ and N treatments had no effect on aboveground biomass, tree density, community composition, and the fraction of shade‐tolerant species. The increases of overstory LAI (~28%) under elevated CO₂ resulted in a reduction of light available to the understory (~18%) sufficient to nullify the expected growth‐enhancing effect of elevated CO₂ on understory vegetation.     

Interactive effects of understory removal and fertilization on soil respiration in subtropical Eucalyptus plantations

Aims It has been well recognized that understory vegetation plays an important role in driving forest ecosystem processes and functioning. In subtropical plantation forests, understory removal and fertilization have been widely applied; however, our understanding on how understory removal affects soil respiration and how the process is regulated by fertilization is limited. Here, we conducted an understory removal experiment combined with fertilization to evaluate the effects of the two forest management practices and their interactions on soil respiration in subtropical forest in southern China.Methods The study was conducted in a split-plot design with fertilization as the whole-plot factor, understory removal as the subplot factor and block as the random factor in subtropical Eucalyptus plantations. In total, there were four treatments: control with unfertilized and intact understory (CK), understory removal but without fertilization (UR), with fertilization but without understory removal (FT) and with fertilization + understory removal (FT + UR). Eucalyptus above- and belowground biomass increment, fine root biomass, soil temperature, soil moisture and soil respiration were measured in the present study. Understory respiration (R U) was quantified in different ways: R u = R CK ? R UR or R u = R FT ? R (FT + UR); fertilization increased soil respiration (R FI) was also quantified in different ways: R FI = R FT ? R CK or R FI = R (FT + UR) ? R UR .Important findings Over a 2-year experiment, our data indicate that understory removal significantly decreased soil respiration, while fertilization increased soil respiration. Understory removal decreased soil respiration by 28.8% under fertilization, but only 15.2% without fertilization. Fertilization significantly increased soil respiration by 23.6% with the presence of understory vegetation, and only increased by 3.7% when understory was removed, indicating that fertilization increased soil respiration mainly by increasing the contribution of the understory. Our study advances our understanding of the interactive effects of understory management and fertilization on soil respiration in subtropical plantations.     

鼎湖山马尾松、荷木混交林生态系统碳素积累和分配特征

选取鼎湖山保护区3个马尾松9Pinus massoniana),荷木（Schima superba)针阔混交林样地,研究其生态系统的碳素积累和分配特征。结果表明,鼎湖山马尾松,荷木混交林乔木尾生物量（thm^-2)为：174.41-270.11。平均227.36,且均以马尾松的生物量居多（占54.9%-84.4%)。林下层植物生物量和地表现存凋落物量（thm^-2)分别为7.41-28.28和7.06-11.56。平均14.41和9.03。三个混交林生态系统总碳贮量（thm^-2)分别为146.35,215.30和205.79。平均为189.15,其中植被层碳贮量贡献率最大,依次占62.9%,61.9%和69.9%。平均65.0%;土壤层贡献率次之,依次占34.3%,35.5%和28.5%。平均32.8%;而地表现存凋落物层的贡献最小,仅占2.8%,2.6%和1.6%。平均为2.3%。此外,本文还对该生态系统植被碳吸存潜力进行了讨论。     

东北虎豹国家公园东部有蹄类栖息地的灌草层食物资源的量与质

东北虎和东北豹主要捕食马鹿、梅花鹿、狍  及野猪等大中型有蹄类动物,而这些有蹄类的生存依赖森林灌草层的植食性食物资源,形成了东北亚温带森林生态系统完整的啃食食物链 (grazing food chain) 主体。本研究通过对建设中的东北虎豹国家公园东部地区有蹄类栖息地的灌草层植物进行本底调查,获得有蹄类动物的食物资源基线数据。2015年及2016年生长季,在东北虎豹国家公园东部,随机选择141个样地嵌套496条样线,1948个样方,对不同森林结构 (郁闭林及开阔生境,开阔生境包括林窗、林缘和河岸带) 的灌草层植物生物量、食物类别组成 (嫩枝叶、禾莎草、杂类草和蕨类) 及碳、氮含量进行调查分析。研究结果显示：灌草层生物量在开阔生境显著高于郁闭林下 (94.91 g/m² vs. 30.15 g/m²),达到3.15倍。三种开阔生境下的灌草层食物资源类别组成差异显著,在林窗内以嫩枝叶优势,在林缘以杂类草占优势,在河岸带以蕨类占优势。灌草层中杂类草和嫩枝叶平均氮含量高,杂类草碳含量低、C/N低;四类植物热值均超17kJ/g,其中嫩枝叶最高。嫩枝叶、杂类草占优势的高生物量 (生物量大于40 g/m²) 斑块占郁闭林下的16 %、占开阔生境的50 %左右,可能是精食者 (browser) 的取食热点区域。建议在未来国家公园建设中,在合适的地段保留一定的开阔生境,为梅花鹿等食草动物补充高质量的灌草层食物资源斑块,促进有蹄类动物种群发展,并以此为基础恢复虎豹种群。