Universität zu Köln

Papadopoulou, Maria, Tsiripidis, Ioannis, Panajiotidis, Sampson ORCID: 0000-0003-1236-9000, Fotiadis, Georgios, Veres, Daniel ORCID: 0000-0003-3932-577X, Magyari, Eniko ORCID: 0000-0002-2844-8937, Bormann, Marc, Fontana, Sonia ORCID: 0000-0001-8238-4172, Shumilovskikh, Lyudmila ORCID: 0000-0002-7429-3163, Panagiotopoulos, Konstantinos ORCID: 0000-0002-3158-7962, Schabitz, Frank and Giesecke, Thomas (2022). Testing the potential of pollen assemblages to capture composition, diversity and ecological gradients of surrounding vegetation in two biogeographical regions of southeastern Europe. Veg. Hist. Archaeobot., 31 (1). S. 1 - 16. NEW YORK: SPRINGER. ISSN 1617-6278

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Abstract

Due to the complex relationship between pollen and vegetation, it is not yet clear how pollen diagrams may be interpreted with respect to changes in floristic diversity and only a few studies have hitherto investigated this problem. We compare pollen assemblages from moss samples in two southeastern European forests with the surrounding vegetation to investigate (a) their compositional similarity, (b) the association between their diversity characteristics in both terms of richness and evenness, and (c) the correspondence of the main ecological gradients that can be revealed by them. Two biogeographical regions with different vegetation characteristics, the Pieria mountains (north central Greece) and the slopes of Ciomadul volcano (eastern Romania), were chosen as divergent examples of floristic regions, vegetation structure and landscape openness. Pollen assemblages are efficient in capturing the presence or absence, rather than the abundance in distribution of plants in the surrounding area and this bias increases along with landscape openness and vegetation diversity, which is higher in the Pieria mountains. Pollen assemblages and vegetation correlate better in terms of richness, that is, low order diversity indices. Relatively high correlation, in terms of evenness, could be potentially found in homogenous and species poor ecosystems as for Ciomadul. Composition and diversity of woody, rather than herb, vegetation is better reflected in pollen assemblages of both areas, especially for Pieria where a direct comparison of the two components was feasible, although this depends on the species-specific pollen production and dispersal, the openness of landscape and the overall diversity of vegetation. Gradients revealed by pollen assemblages are highly and significantly correlated with those existing in vegetation. Pollen assemblages may represent the vegetation well in terms of composition, diversity (mainly richness) and ecological gradients, but this potential depends on land use, vegetation structure, biogeographical factors and plant life forms.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Papadopoulou, Maria UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Tsiripidis, Ioannis UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Panajiotidis, Sampson UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-1236-9000 UNSPECIFIED Fotiadis, Georgios UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Veres, Daniel UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-3932-577X UNSPECIFIED Magyari, Eniko UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-2844-8937 UNSPECIFIED Bormann, Marc UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Fontana, Sonia UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-8238-4172 UNSPECIFIED Shumilovskikh, Lyudmila UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-7429-3163 UNSPECIFIED Panagiotopoulos, Konstantinos UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-3158-7962 UNSPECIFIED Schabitz, Frank UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Giesecke, Thomas UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-601174
DOI:	10.1007/s00334-021-00831-4
Journal or Publication Title:	Veg. Hist. Archaeobot.
Volume:	31
Number:	1
Page Range:	S. 1 - 16
Date:	2022
Publisher:	SPRINGER
Place of Publication:	NEW YORK
ISSN:	1617-6278
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language LONG-TERM CHANGES; PALYNOLOGICAL RICHNESS; FLORISTIC DIVERSITY; SOURCE AREA; PLANT RICHNESS; FOSSIL POLLEN; MOUNTAINS; LANDSCAPE; EVENNESS; REPRESENTATION Multiple languages Plant Sciences; Paleontology Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/60117