Spatial distribution of the copepod Centropages typicus in Ligurian Sea (NW Mediterranean). Role of surface currents estimated by Topex-Poseidon altimetry

A particle-tracking model was used to simulate the dispersion and development of the planktonic copepod Centropages typicus during spring in Ligurian Sea. We show that mesoscale current structure, with a coastal jet and eddies, plays a key role in the transport and dispersion of C. typicus during its life cycle. Although, in the north, offshore Nice, cohorts can be advected southwestward out of Ligurian basin, more to the south others are retained in the central eddy and may give the start to the spring bloom of this species. However, input of individuals from the south through the Corsican Channel and along the west coast of Corsica may also be important in spring. This study shows that the ambit of C. typicus population is larger than the Ligurian Sea.     

Spectral sensitivity of vertically migrating marine copepods

Light is a critical factor in the proximate basis of diel vertical migration (DVM) in zooplankton. A photobehavioral approach was used to examine the spectral sensitivity of four coastal species of calanoid copepod, representing a diversity of DVM patterns, to test whether species that migrate (nocturnal or reverse DVM) have response spectra that differ from non-migratory surface dwellers. The following species were given light stimuli at wavelengths from 350 to 740 nm, and their photoresponses were measured: Centropages typicus (nocturnal migrator), Calanopia americana (nocturnal migrator), Anomalocera ornata (reverse migrator), and Labidocera aestiva (non-migrator). Centropages typicus and A. ornata had peak responses at 500 and 520 nm, respectively, while Calanopia americana had maximum responses at 480 and 520 nm. Thus, the species that undergo DVM have peak photobehavioral responses at wavelengths corresponding to those available during twilight in coastal water, although the range of wavelengths to which they respond is variable. Non-migratory surface-dwelling L. aestiva had numerous response peaks over a broad spectral range, which may serve to maximize photon capture for vision in their broad-spectrum shallow-water habitat.     

Physical and biological coupling in eddies in the lee of the South-West Indian Ridge

Eddies have some decisive functions in the dynamics of the Southern Ocean ecosystems. This is particularly true in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean, where a region of unusually high-mesoscale variability has been observed in the vicinity of the South-West Indian Ridge. In April 2003, three eddies were studied: eddy A, a recently spawned anticyclone south of the Antarctic Polar Front (APF),; eddy B, an anticyclone north of lying between the Subantarctic Front and the APF; and eddy C, a cyclone north of the APF west of the ridge. Elevated concentrations of total Chl-a coincided with the edges of the cyclonic eddy, whereas both anticyclonic eddies A and B were characterised by low total Chl-a concentrations. Biologically, the two anticyclonic eddies A and B were distinctly different in their biogeographic origin. The zooplankton community in the larger anticyclonic eddy A was similar in composition to the Antarctic Polar Frontal Zone (APFZ) community with an addition of some Antarctic species suggesting an origin just north of the APF. In contrast, the species composition within the second anticyclonic eddy B appeared to be more typical of the transitional nature of the APFZ, comprising species of both subantarctic and subtropical origin and thus influenced by intrusions of water masses from both north and south of the Subantarctic Front. Back-tracking of these features shows that the biological composition clearly demarcates the hydrographic origin of these features.     

Diversity and structure of pelagic copepod populations in the frontal zone of the eastern Alboran sea

During the oceanographic campaign, ALMOFRONT I (April 24–May 26, 1991) a total of 50 vertical zooplankton hauls was carried out in the Alboran Sea using a triple net. Leg A (18 stations; 18 hauls) described a widely spaced grid in the region of the Atlantic current and some northern eddies, while Leg B (16 stations; 32 hauls, 6 hydrodynamically characterized sites sampled during a two day period) covered a more restricted area in the frontal zone. Ninety-one species of copepods were found in 100 samples collected by either 200 µm or 500 µm mesh size nets, including 32 genera and 26 families. Copepod abundance, structure indexes (species richness, evenness, Shannon species diversity index, standardized for unequal sample counts) and species abundance patterns (as rank-frequency diagrams) are presented and compared among the sites of leg-B. Copepod abundance was found to be the highest in the more productive sites of the Atlantic current. Structure indexes values and the changing shape of rank-frequency diagrams give a coherent view of the ecological succession stages of the copepod community. Juvenile stage (1) develops from the Atlantic divergence zone, left side of the jet. More mature stages (1 and 2) occur on the right side of the jet influenced by cross frontal flow. Both abundance and structure indexes decrease within an anticyclonic gyre south to the current. A situation more influenced by oligotrophic conditions was observed in a Mediterranean anticyclonic gyre north of the current. The importance of lateral displacement and meandering of the Atlantic current across the Alboran Sea to the community structure is discussed.     

天津近岸海域夏季大型底栖生物群落结构变化特征

近年来,天津海岸带区域经济发展迅速,污染物排放量及污染海域面积持续增加,特别是2004年以来,天津港和临港工业区进行了大规模的海洋工程建设。由于具有迁移能力差、随季节波动不明显、生命周期相对较长等优点,大型底栖生物作为重要的人类干扰的反应指标,被广泛的应用于河口和海岸带生态系统对人类干扰的环境响应评价。为研究遭受人类干扰活动的天津近岸海域大型底栖生物群落结构的时空变化特征,分别于2004年和2007年夏季对渤海湾天津近岸海域进行了大面积的底栖生物群落调查。运用聚类分析、多维标度(MDS)及相似性分析(ANOSIM)等多元统计方法,分析了该区域底栖生物丰度、优势种、群落结构及生物多样性的时空变化特征。结果表明:1)2004年夏季底栖生物调查获得底栖生物29种,平均丰度为402.8个/m²,优势种为日本鼓虾、脆壳理蛤;2007年夏季底栖生物调查获得底栖生物36种,平均丰度为120.27个/m²,优势种为脆壳理蛤、小胡桃蛤、绒毛细足蟹、涡虫4种。2)2004年,调查区域底栖生物丰度空间分布呈现北低南高特征,2007年,则呈现中间低南北高的空间分布特征。3)2004年到2007年,位于大沽河口的19号站点底栖生物群落结构与其它站点存在显著性差异,生物群落受冲淡水影响明显,具有河口生物群落结构的独特性。2004年调查区域中的塘沽断面的底栖生物群落结构与其它四个断面存在显著性差异,而到2007年,五个断面底栖生物群落结构整体趋向一致。4)2004年,北部北塘、汉沽及南部岐口断面具有较高的丰富度、均匀度、多样性及较低的优势度指数,而到2007年,南部岐口、北部汉沽区域丰富度、均匀度和多样性指数均呈现下降趋势,而优势度指数则有所上升。中部区域特别是塘沽断面在丰富度、均匀度、多样性指数上有所增加,且越靠近中心区域增加程度越大。海岸工程、污染物排放、围垦养殖等人为干扰因素可能是造成天津近岸海域底栖生物丰度降低及其群落结构和多样性指数空间分布不均匀变化的主要原因。     

Integrated ecosystem health assessment based on eco-exergy theory: A case study of the Jiangsu coastal area

The main objective of ecosystem health management is to preserve the capacity of ecosystems to respond to disturbances and future changes. We proposed a set of ecological indicators for coastal ecosystem health assessment using physical stressors such as total suspended matter, chemical stressors including nutrients and heavy metal pollutants, community structure metrics including species richness, diversity and evenness, and ecosystem level eco-exergy indicators. The results of our case study indicate that the health status of the Jiangsu coastal ecosystem is limited by environmental stressors and factors that affect the community species diversity. The health status of nektonic and benthic communities is reflected by water quality and sediment physicochemical properties, respectively. The results of our case study demonstrate that the integrated ecological health indicator system can provide a comprehensive assessment that corresponds with the current health of coastal ecosystems and a reliable theoretical basis for regional coastal management.     

豫西黄土高原农作区鼠类群落动态：时空尺度格局的初步分析

本文分析了豫西农业生态系统中鼠类群落局部空间尺度的短期动态格局。在区域尺度上,该群落为棕色田鼠＋大仓鼠型,群落多样性与丰富度和均匀度都有显著的正相关,丰富度的作用大于均匀度的作用。由于资源分布的斑块性,群落优势种和次优势种对环境变异的季节性反应不同,故群落的时空格局具有明显的变化。在农田中,群落在秋季分化为棕色田鼠＋大仓鼠亚群落型和大仓鼠＋棕色田鼠型,后者的生境斑块为单一的玉米田和油葵田;在作物轮作的格局下,群落多样性与丰富度和均匀度都有显著的正相关。在果园中,无论果树树龄和季节的变化,棕色田鼠的多度总是大于大仓鼠,即群落格局是不变的,而群落多样性与丰富度和多度之间均无显著的相关性。然而,灌溉可使大仓鼠与棕色田鼠的数量关系发生逆转,因此灌溉不仅影响果园中鼠类群落格局的分化,而且也将影响到农田中的这种分化。在一年弃耕地中,群落格局从夏季开始由棕色田鼠＋大仓鼠亚群落型转化为大仓鼠＋棕色田鼠亚群落型;在第３年末演替结束时,多年生植物取代一年生植物成为优势种,大仓鼠＋棕色田鼠群落格局则趋于稳定。在此过程中,群落多样性和丰富度与均匀度均无显著的相关性。本研究结果还表明,异质性可导致农作区鼠类群落的多样性     

Patchiness and disturbance: plant community responses to porcupine diggings in the central Negev

We tested the hypothesis that diversity and productivity of herbaceous plant communities in disturbed soil are related to the physical and biological heterogeneity of the landscape Our study was earned out on vegetation responses in porcupine diggings on a rocky slope in the central Negev desert in Israel We measured aboveground bio-mass and plant density per species in 150 porcupine diggings (15 cm deep and 15 to 20 cm wide) and in equally sized adjacent control samples in the undisturbed soil matrix We calculated mean annual biomass production, plant density and species richness for 10 sample areas along the slope In addition, we divided the plants into groups according to propagule size and dispersal mode We denoted two types of landscape heterogeneity, which we called physical and biological patchiness Physical patchiness was measured as the ratio of bare rock to soil surface Biological patchiness was the area of the soil covered by shrubs with associated soil mound and under-story relative to the total soil surface We also measured disturbance density, as the long term (17 yr) average density of newly made porcupine diggings We found that 1) the physical patchiness explained 30% of the variation of biological patchiness along the slope, while 2) the patterns of disturbance intensity and biological patchiness were similar (R-=0 386) 3) Biomass, density and species richness were significantly higher in diggings than m the soil matrix 4) Plant density in the matrix, but not m the diggings, was significantly correlated with physical patchiness, 5) species richness in diggings was significantly correlated with biological patchiness, but 6) biomass production in diggings and matrix was not affected by either physical or biological patchiness of the landscape 7) Disturbance density did not affect vegetation responses in diggings and matrix 8) A shift in the plant communities in the matrix towards plants with smaller seeds was associated with increasing physical patchiness, while m diggings there was an opposite shift 9) The proportion of wind dispersers was higher in diggings than outside, while the proportion of runoff dispersers was lower, 10) the densities of runoff dispersers in diggings and matrix were positively correlated with physical and biological patchiness 11) Physical and biological patchiness formed the two major gradients of species composition, explaining 30 and 25% respectively We conclude that the network of physical and biological patchiness and soil disturbance are important in the redistribution of resources and seeds, which control plant biomass, density, species richness and diversity The bare rock surface is the main source for runoff flow with associated soil, organic matter and nutrients The understory vegetation of shrubs provides seeds for creating and maintaining diversity The soil matrix absorbs runoff flow, and disturbances absorb runoff and trap seeds Thus, differences in landscape heterogeneity and their effects on resource and seed movement interact in controlling plant community productivity and diversity in the landscape     

Seasonal Cycles of Egg Production of Two Planktonic Copepods, Centropages typicus and Temora stylifera, in the North-western Mediterranean Sea

Reproduction of the dominant copepods Centropages typicus andTemora stylifera was studied at a permanent station in the LigurianSea (north-western Mediterranean). Seasonal patterns of eggproduction, clutch size, egg size and female prosome lengthwere followed from January 1998 to December 1999. Female carboncontent and weight-specific egg production were compared inautumn 1998 and spring 1999. Reproductive patterns of C. typicusand T. stylifera were very similar, indicating that reproductionwas affected by the same environmental factors. Reproductiveactivity was highest in autumn in both species and years. Asecond peak of egg production was observed in early summer,which was less intense in 1999 after a bloom of salps. Egg productionrates reached maximal values of 33.5 and 33.3 eggs female^–1day^–1 and annual means of 10.8 and 11.7 eggs female^–1day^–1 in Centropages and Temora, respectively. Maximalweight-specific egg production was 0.21 day^–1 in bothspecies in November 1998, when female carbon contents were 6.7(C. typicus) and 12.0 µg (T. stylifera). No statisticalrelationship between egg production and food availability ortemperature was detected. Reproductive activity did not reflectthe seasonal abundance patterns, with C. typicus dominatingin spring and T. stylifera in autumn.     

北部湾雷州近海春、夏季鱼类群落结构初探

根据2005年4月、7月和8月在北部湾雷州近海进行的渔业资源刺网和底拖网调查,对该海域春、夏季鱼类群落结构进行了初步研究.结果表明,银鲳(Stromateoides argenteus)是当地绝对的优势种,其它鱼类优势种随区域和季节有着较大的差异.分别计算了北部湾雷州近海春、夏季鱼类生物多样性指数的种类丰度指数(R)、多样性指数(H')、均匀度指数(J').聚类分析表明该水域鱼类群落结构存在一定程度的时空异质性,但空间异质性不如时间异质性明显.此外,不同群落中的鱼类呈现出不同的生态型特征.同时部分结果表明,在不同网具的调查下,有的结果会出现较大变化.     

庙岛群岛典型植物群落物种、功能、结构多样性及其对环境因子的响应

海岛植被在全球生物多样性研究中起重要作用,研究海岛植被多样性对于理解海陆相互作用下植物群落的多样性维持机制有重要意义.本研究以庙岛群岛的麻栎群落、刺槐群落、黑松群落、荆条群落4种典型植物群落为对象,采用物种多样性指数、功能多样性指数和结构多样性指数,在群落尺度上探讨了海岛典型植物群落物种、功能、结构多样性间的关系及其对环境因子的响应.结果表明: 黑松群落的物种丰富度与Rao指数高于刺槐群落与麻栎群落,而结构多样性却较低;荆条灌丛的物种、结构多样性均低于森林群落,而功能多样性高于部分森林群落.物种丰富度与Rao指数以及树高多样性间呈显著正相关,与功能均匀度呈显著负相关.结构多样性主要由坡度决定且与坡度呈负相关;功能均匀度与坡度呈正相关,而功能异质性、功能离散度和物种多样性则更多地受土壤理化性质的影响,与土壤容重及土壤总碳呈正相关,与土壤含水率呈负相关.总体而言,庙岛群岛的植物群落多样性格局既有与大陆植被相似的特征,但也有其海岛特殊性.     

Zooplankton Community During the Transition from Spring Bloom to Oligotrophy in the Open NW Mediterranean and Effects of Wind Events. 1. Abundance and Specific Composition

Short-term changes in the zooplankton community were investigatedat a time-series station in the open NW Mediterranean duringthe DYNAPROC cruise programme (May 1995). Based on the samplesobtained with three devices (12 l bottle, 200 µm and 500µm mesh nets), the abundance and specific compositionare presented for mesozooplankton (copepods mainly), macroplanktonand micronekton. Over the 3 week sampling period, overall densityof the copepod community decreased and changes in the specificcomposition occurred. The decline was also observed in naupliiand was more marked in small-sized copepod species than in largerones; one species, Centropages typicus, even disappeared. Anincrease in the proportion of carnivorous organisms appearedin both copepods (Euchaeta acuta, Heterorhabdus spp.) and euphausiids(Nematoscelis megalops, Stylocheiron longicorne). These changesare discussed in relation to environmental features and in thecontext of seas-onal variability, the observational period coincidingwith the transition from spring bloom to oligotrophy in thisarea. Effects of a major wind event that appeared to have inducedlong-lasting changes are also explored.     

林业生态工程措施对滨海盐碱地草本植物的影响

林业生态工程是当前国内滨海盐碱地生态改良的重要措施,这一措施对滨海盐碱地的自然生态系统产生了一定的影响。为揭示林业生态工程措施对滨海盐碱地草本植物的影响,在杭州湾余姚段滨海盐碱地上,应用生态工程措施营造一条长约3.5km、宽约30m的人工林带,分别以林带两侧农田和荒地为对照,运用目测法和样方法,以盐生和耐盐草本植物的种类、物种-面积关系、频度、单位面积生物量、综合优势度比、丰富度、Pielou均匀度指数、Shannon指数和Simpson指数为指标,研究了滨海盐碱地不同处理的草本植物在群落结构和物种多样性上的差异。结果表明:研究区草本植物共有14科30属31种,不同处理的草本植物均以禾本科和菊科为主;与荒地和农田草本群落相比,林业生态工程改良带草本群落的物种数目没有显著变化,但种类组成有了显著的改变,最小面积显著扩大,群落结构复杂化,物种多样性有提高趋势;林业生态工程改良区生境过滤作用发挥着主要作用,而物种间的竞争排斥作用还不明显。林业生态工程措施有效地改变了滨海盐碱地原生草本植物的群落结构和物种多样性,促使研究区草本植物进入一个新的演替进程,显示出较高的生态效益。     

Mesozooplankton assemblage and first record of Paracartia grani Sars G.O., 1904 (Copepoda: Calanoida) in the Western harbour of Genova (Ligurian Sea).

Harbours are characterized by high pollutant charge and by the occurrence of well adapted and resistant species. This paper reports the results of an annual plankton survey (May 1997-June 1998) carried out in the western harbour of Genova (Ligurian Sea) and in its mouth. Plankton samples were collected by horizontal trawls using a WP2 net. Copepods were the bulk of plankton in almost all samples. Eight copepod species were recognized: Paracalanus parvus and Acartia clausi were the most abundant. The first record of Paracartia grani in the harbour of Genova is here reported; this species, which is known to occur in polluted harbour waters of the Mediterranean Sea and was found in semi-confined Mediterranean and Atlantic coastal areas, was dominant during October 1997. Also Clausocalanus spp., Centropages typicus, Oithona helgolandica, Oithona nana, Farranula spp., Eurytemora spp., Isias clavipes and Lucicutia spp. were frequently sampled. Among other zooplankters, cladocerans, ostracods and tunicates occurred frequently, while cnidarians, mysids and chaetognaths showed low densities. These results show the occurrence of a well defined harbour plankton and point out the differences between harbour and neritic plankton of the Gulf of Genova.     

幕阜山森林群落结构与物种多样性研究

幕阜山地处中亚热带-北亚热带过渡地带,物种资源丰富.通过对其典型样地的调查,分别采用Shannon-Wiener指数、Simpson指数和Pielou均匀度指数作为测度指标,研究了幕阜山地区森林群落结构及其物种多样性特征.结果表明,该地区主要有21个森林群落类型.其中常绿阔叶林中,物种丰富度指数与多样性指数在群落梯度上的总体趋势均为灌木层相对高于乔木层,乔木层相对高于草本层;在落叶阔叶林中,其丰富度指数的趋势为灌木层＞草本层和乔木层,而在草本层与乔木层间是波动的,多样性指数的趋势为灌木层＞草本层＞乔木层;在针叶林中,物种丰富度、多样性指数表现的总趋势基本一致,即灌木层的丰富度相对较高,其次为草本层,乔木层的相对较小.在其他群落类型中,多样性指数、均匀度指数在乔木层、灌木层和草本层则表现出多样化的趋势;另外,从总体上看,各种指数在海拔梯度上并未表现出明显的规律性.     

When competition does not matter: grassland diversity and community composition

We examined whether the intense root competition in a rough fescue grassland plant community in central Alberta, Canada, was important in structuring plant species diversity or community composition. We measured competition intensity across gradients of species richness, evenness, and community composition, using pairs of naturally occurring plants of 12 species. One plant in each pair was isolated from neighbors to measure competition; community structure and environmental conditions were also measured at each pair. We used structural equation modeling to examine how competition influenced community structure. Competition intensity was unrelated to species richness and community composition, but increased competition intensity was associated with a slight decline in evenness. Size-symmetric root competition was probably unimportant in structuring this plant community because there are no feedback mechanisms through which size-symmetric competition can magnify small initial differences and eventually lead to competitive exclusion. In plant communities with little shoot competition, competition and community structure should be unlinked regardless of competition intensity. In more productive systems, we propose that interactions between root and shoot competition may indirectly structure communities by altering the overall asymmetry of competition.     

浙江近海春、夏季蟹类群落结构及其与环境因子的关系

根据2015年4月和7月浙江近岸海域单船底拖网调查资料, 分析了春、夏两个季节浙江近岸海域蟹类的种类组成、优势种及资源密度分布, 采用生态多样性指数和丰度/生物量比较曲线(ABC曲线)分析了群落物种多样性及其动态变化, 同时运用典范对应分析(CCA)研究了蟹类群落变化与海洋环境因子的关系。结果表明: 浙江沿岸海域春、夏季共捕获蟹类28种, 隶属于11科19属, 调查海域蟹类主要以暖水性种类占优势; 春季优势种为双斑蟳(Charybdis bimaculata)、三疣梭子蟹(Portunus trituberculatus)和日本蟳(Charybdis japonica), 夏季优势种为三疣梭子蟹和双斑蟳; 两个季节蟹类平均资源密度分别为244.38 和585.60 kg/km2, 中北部海域资源密度高于南部海域; 种类丰富度指数(D)、物种多样性指数(H′)和种类均匀度指数(J′)三种群落多样性指数均不高, 蟹类群落多样性水平处于较低水平; 根据ABC曲线评估干扰对蟹类群落的影响可得: 春、夏季浙江近岸蟹类群落分别处于严重干扰和中等干扰状态; 典范对应分析结果表明: 在进行对应分析的9个环境因子中, 水深为影响研究海域春夏两季蟹类分布的首要环境因子; 盐度(表层和底层)为影响蟹类分布的次要环境因子, 其他环境因子也均在一定程度上影响蟹类群落分布。     

Taxonomic and functional diversity covary in rock pool microalgal communities despite their different drivers

Local biodiversity has traditionally been estimated with taxonomic diversity metrics such as species richness. Recently, the concept of biodiversity has been extended beyond species identity by ecological traits determining the functional role of a species in a community. This interspecific functional diversity typically responds more strongly to local environmental variation compared with taxonomic diversity, while taxonomic diversity may mirror more strongly dispersal processes compared with functional metrics. Several trait‐based indices have been developed to measure functional diversity for various organisms and habitat types, but studies of their applicability on aquatic microbial communities have been underrepresented. We examined the drivers and covariance of taxonomic and functional diversity among diatom rock pool communities on the Baltic Sea coast. We quantified three taxonomic (species richness, Shannon''s diversity, and Pielou''s evenness) and three functional (functional richness, evenness, and divergence) diversity indices and determined abiotic factors best explaining variation in these indices by generalized linear mixed models. The six diversity indices were highly collinear except functional evenness, which merely correlated significantly with taxonomic evenness. All diversity indices were always explained by water conductivity and temperature–sampling month interaction. Taxonomic diversity was further consistently explained by pool distance to the sea, and functional richness and divergence by pool location. The explained variance in regression models did not markedly differ between taxonomic and functional metrics. Our findings do not clearly support the superiority of neither set of diversity indices in explaining coastal microbial diversity, but rather highlight the general overlap among the indices. However, as individual metrics may be driven by different factors, the greatest advantage in assessing biodiversity is nevertheless probably achieved with a simultaneous application of the taxonomic and functional diversity metrics.     

Factors influencing fish distribution and community structure in a small coastal river in southwestern Costa Rica

We evaluated the relative importance of habitat size and diversity and distance from the ocean in explaining longitudinal patterns of fish distribution and community structure (species richness, evenness, and diversity) in the lower 5 km of the Rio Claro. The Rio Claro is a small coastal river in Corcovado National Park, southwestern Costa Rica, with a depauperate freshwater fish fauna. We observed 22 species in pools, 19 of which occured during quantitative sampling. Most of these species probably spent part of their lives in the Pacific Ocean. We observed no species in riffles, although these habitats were common and several taxa (e.g., Gobiesocidae, Gobiidae) were adapted for life in fast turbulent water. Fish abundance, and species richness, evenness, and diversity were highest near the ocean, where high tides influenced river levels and salinity. Eight species were not observed further than 2900 m from the ocean, whereas 6 species were not encountered in samples nearest the ocean; the remaining 8 species were present throughout the study area. Distance from the ocean was a better predictor of fish abundance and community structure than were pool width, pool depth, pool surface area, pool volume, amount of cover present, substrate diversity, or depth diversity. Based in qualitative comparisons of our data with previously published data from 1980–1986, the fish assemblage of the Rio Claro is persistent in both species composition and relative abundance.     

广东南澳岛马尾松林的群落结构

1996年调查了广东南澳岛马尾松群落的种类组成、群落的水平结构和垂直结构、群落的组织水平结构。南澳岛马尾松群落的组成种类数量为28－32种,群落高度为7－10m,可分为乔木层、灌木层和草水层3个层次,乔木层的平均个体密度为17－32株m-2,群落的Shannon－Weiner多样性指数为1．715－3．269,均匀度0．439－0．818,生态优势度为0．223－0．102。马尾松群落是海岛植被破坏后形成的先锋群落,但山于海岛环境的特殊性,不宜大面积发展马尾松林,可通过间种台湾相思等阔叶树种进行林分改造。