Vegetation dynamics in the fens of Chautagne (Savoie,France) after the cessation of mowing |
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Authors: | J. Fossati G. Pautou |
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Affiliation: | (1) U.R.A. 367 Ecologie des eaux douces, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon I, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France;(2) Ecologie des Populations et des Peuplements Végétaux Alluviaux, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble I, B.P. 35 X, 38041 Grenoble Cedex, France |
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Abstract: | The mechanisms controlling secondary succession on eutrophic peat are analyzed on an area of 500 ha marsh near the Lac du Bourget in the Rhône floodplain between Geneva and Lyon. After describing the succession, the authors compare the succession with that described for fens in England.During succession, three categories of phenomena occur:-Predictable phenomena based on the occurrence of well-established relationships between species with a high cover density. When mowing ceases, populations with increasingly higher biomasses reach dominance one by one.-Phenomena which were to be expected although the manner in which they occurred were more difficult to predict, such as the conditions in which woody plants take over.-Phenomena hidden in the framework of a synchronic analysis. The lowering of the water table, for example, can modify the entire community of species occurring in the sequence as well as the competition between species. The pecularities of each type of ecological situation made it difficult to develop general models. |
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Keywords: | Cladium mariscus Floodplain Frangula alnus Molinia caerulea Peat Phragmites australis Rhô ne Schoenus nigricans Secondary succession |
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