regeneration of different plant functional types in a masson pine forest following pine wilt disease不同的植物功能类型的再生马森松林后松树枯萎病.pdfVIP

Regeneration of Different Plant Functional Types in a Masson Pine Forest Following Pine Wilt Disease 1 2 3 4 5 1 Guang Hu , Xuehong Xu , Yuling Wang , Gao Lu , Kenneth J. Feeley , Mingjian Yu * 1The Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology for Endangered Wildlife of the Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China, 2 Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, 3 General Station of Forest Pest Management, State Forestry Administration, Shenyang, People’s Republic of China, 4 Xiangshan Forest Pest Control and Quarantine Station, Xianshan, People’s Republic of China, 5 Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America Abstract Pine wilt disease is a severe threat to the native pine forests in East Asia. Understanding the natural regeneration of the forests disturbed by pine wilt disease is thus critical for the conservation of biodiversity in this realm. We studied the dynamics of composition and structure within different plant functional types (PFTs) in Masson pine forests affected by pine wilt disease (PWD). Based on plant traits, all species were assigned to four PFTs: evergreen woody species (PFT1), deciduous woody species (PFT2), herbs (PFT3), and ferns (PFT4). We analyzed the changes in these PFTs during the initial disturbance period and during post-disturbance regeneration. The species richness, abundance and basal area, as well as life-stage structure of the PFTs changed differently after pine wilt disease. The direction of plant community regeneration depended on the differential response of the PFTs. PFT1, which has a higher tolerance to disturbances, became dominant du