中国亚热带山地植被垂直带分布对气候季节性的响应

根据植被研究的文献,收集了中国亚热带地区(23°-34°N)具有亚热带常绿阔叶林基带的49个山地的地理位置、气候因子、植被垂直带分布等数据;计算了不同山地基带的温度和降水季节性(分别以月平均温度和降水量的变异系数表示),以及气候季节性强度指数(以月平均温度和降水量的变异系数的乘积表示);最后分析了季节性强度与植被垂直带分布的关系。结果显示,中国亚热带地区北纬25°以南的所有山体缺少落叶阔叶林带,而北纬32°以北的则一定具有落叶林带;在中间地带,具有落叶阔叶林带的山体比例随纬度上升而上升。温度的季节性强度和气候季节性强度随纬度上升而增加,但降水的季节性强度与纬度没有显著关系。非参数相关分析表明,中国亚热带山地植被垂直带落叶阔叶林缺失与否与气候要素的季节性强度显著相关,即随山体的温度季节性强度和气候季节性强度的增加,山体拥有落叶阔叶林带的可能性增加。这种纬度梯度上的山体植被垂直分布格局(落叶阔叶林带存在与否)的变化与叶片水平上碳平衡模型的预测一致。

Variations in the vertical vegetation zonation of subtropical Chinese mountains: the importance of climatic seasonality

One of the most significant research themes in plant ecology is the vegetation-climate relationship. Mean annual temperature and precipitation are frequently used to characterize stand qualities and predict vegetation distributions,while seasonalities of climate have seldom been employed to study the climate-vegetation relationship despite their long-recognized importance to the vegetation distributions. Mountain vertical vegetation zonations are often assumed to be the reduction of vegetation distribution ...