Possible effects of climate change on the vegetation of floodplain meadows
Hamburg, Univ., FB Biologie, Diss. 2014
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Hamburg, Univ., FB Biologie, Diss. 2014 The aim of this thesis was to elucidate the possible effects of climate change on Central European floodplain meadows. Therefore, four research objectives were addressed: (1) identifying the current influence of climate on the vegetation of floodplain meadows, (2) elucidating the effects of reduced water potentials on the germination of floodplain meadow species, (3) quantifying the effects of reduced summer precipitation on the forage quality of floodplain meadows, and (4) disentangling the effects of water level and competition on the endangered floodplain meadow species Cnidium dubium. All studies of this thesis were conducted on or with species originating from floodplain meadows located in functional floodplains of the rivers Elbe and Rhine and of two Elbe River tributaries, the Havel and the Sude River. All studied floodplains have in common the fact that the climatic and hydrological conditions result in highly variable soil water potentials. |
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| Beschreibung: | Enth.: 4 Zeitschriftensonderdrucke Zsfassung in engl. u. dt. Sprache |
| Beschreibung: | VIII, 137 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Tab |