Plants on Rich-Magnesium Dolomite Barrens: A Global Phenomenon
For botanists and ecologists, the close link between some plants and substrates, such as serpentine or gypsum, is well known. However, the relationship between dolomite and its flora has been much less studied, due to various causes. Its diffuse separation from limestone and the use of a vague appro...
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| author | Mota Poveda, Juan Francisco Merlo Calvente, María Encarnación Martínez Hernández, Fabián Mendoza Fernández, Antonio Jesús Pérez García, Francisco Javier Salmerón Sánchez, Esteban |
| author_facet | Mota Poveda, Juan Francisco Merlo Calvente, María Encarnación Martínez Hernández, Fabián Mendoza Fernández, Antonio Jesús Pérez García, Francisco Javier Salmerón Sánchez, Esteban |
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| description | For botanists and ecologists, the close link between some plants and substrates, such as serpentine or gypsum, is well known. However, the relationship between dolomite and its flora has been much less studied, due to various causes. Its diffuse separation from limestone and the use of a vague approach and terminology that, until now, no one has tried to harmonize are among these reasons. After carrying out an extensive review, completed with data on the distribution of plants linked to dolomite, the territories in which this type of flora appears at a global level were mapped using a geographic information system software. In addition, data on soils were collected, as well as on their influence on the ionomic profile of the flora. These data were completed with the authors’ own information from previous research, which also served to assess these communities’ degree of conservation and the genetic diversity of some of their characteristic species. The results showed that the so-called “dolomite phenomenon” is widely represented and is clearly manifested in the appearance of a peculiar flora, very rich in endemisms, on dry soils, poor in nutrients, and with a high Mg level. Although dolomite habitats cause adaptations in plants which are even more recognizable than those of other rock types, they have not been widely studied from an ecological, evolutionary, and conservation point of view because, so far, neither their characteristics nor their universal demarcation have been precisely defined. |
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| spelling | oai:repositorio.ual.es:10835-93142023-04-12T18:59:04Z Plants on Rich-Magnesium Dolomite Barrens: A Global Phenomenon Mota Poveda, Juan Francisco Merlo Calvente, María Encarnación Martínez Hernández, Fabián Mendoza Fernández, Antonio Jesús Pérez García, Francisco Javier Salmerón Sánchez, Esteban glade dolostone erpentine gypsum Mg endemism plant ionomic For botanists and ecologists, the close link between some plants and substrates, such as serpentine or gypsum, is well known. However, the relationship between dolomite and its flora has been much less studied, due to various causes. Its diffuse separation from limestone and the use of a vague approach and terminology that, until now, no one has tried to harmonize are among these reasons. After carrying out an extensive review, completed with data on the distribution of plants linked to dolomite, the territories in which this type of flora appears at a global level were mapped using a geographic information system software. In addition, data on soils were collected, as well as on their influence on the ionomic profile of the flora. These data were completed with the authors’ own information from previous research, which also served to assess these communities’ degree of conservation and the genetic diversity of some of their characteristic species. The results showed that the so-called “dolomite phenomenon” is widely represented and is clearly manifested in the appearance of a peculiar flora, very rich in endemisms, on dry soils, poor in nutrients, and with a high Mg level. Although dolomite habitats cause adaptations in plants which are even more recognizable than those of other rock types, they have not been widely studied from an ecological, evolutionary, and conservation point of view because, so far, neither their characteristics nor their universal demarcation have been precisely defined. 2021-01-18T09:31:26Z 2021-01-18T09:31:26Z 2021-01-08 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2079-7737 http://hdl.handle.net/10835/9314 en https://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/10/1/38 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess MDPI |
| spellingShingle | glade dolostone erpentine gypsum Mg endemism plant ionomic Mota Poveda, Juan Francisco Merlo Calvente, María Encarnación Martínez Hernández, Fabián Mendoza Fernández, Antonio Jesús Pérez García, Francisco Javier Salmerón Sánchez, Esteban Plants on Rich-Magnesium Dolomite Barrens: A Global Phenomenon |
| title | Plants on Rich-Magnesium Dolomite Barrens: A Global Phenomenon |
| title_full | Plants on Rich-Magnesium Dolomite Barrens: A Global Phenomenon |
| title_fullStr | Plants on Rich-Magnesium Dolomite Barrens: A Global Phenomenon |
| title_full_unstemmed | Plants on Rich-Magnesium Dolomite Barrens: A Global Phenomenon |
| title_short | Plants on Rich-Magnesium Dolomite Barrens: A Global Phenomenon |
| title_sort | plants on rich-magnesium dolomite barrens: a global phenomenon |
| topic | glade dolostone erpentine gypsum Mg endemism plant ionomic |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10835/9314 |
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