Identification of the important environmental factors influencing natural vegetation succession following cropland abandonment on the Loess Plateau, China.

ABSTRACT: Identification of typical vegetation succession types and their important influencing factors is an important prerequisite to implement differential vegetation and soil management after land abandonment on the Loess Plateau, China. However, there is no reported study specifically on the identification of vegetation types and their important factors as well as the thresholds of the important factors for classification of the vegetation types, based on the medium- to long-term succession of natural vegetation after cropland abandonment. We collected vegetation and soil data on the natural vegetation with the longest 60-year-old forest communities that developed after cropland abandonment and analyzed the data using two-way indicator species analysis, detrended correspondence analysis, direct

SUBMITTER: Zhang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7668204 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature