ADAPTATION AND ADJUSTMENT OF MAOLAN FOREST ECOSYSTEM TO KARST ENVIRONMENT
ZHOU Yun-chao
PAN Gen-xing
Abstract：This paper describes the characteristics of Maolan karst ecosystem, in which karstification is a main factor affecting the landform, soil and water content etc., on the other hand, forest ecosystem also responses to karstification ,showing that species have some specialized characteristics such as calciphile and xerophilous in order to grow in karst environment, which determines low productivity although it exists more biodiversities and species. Forest ecosystem responses to severe conditions, which are the origin of ecosystem frailty in karst mountainous regions in particular ways such as clone regeneration, continuous regeneration, etc.. To maintain or restore the productivity of karst forest ecosystem, it is better at first to study the mechanism of environmental stress on forest species under karstification, especially to study the adaptability of forest species to this kind of stress and the mechanism of the genetic adjustment.
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Publication Date：2001-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：6( 47-52 )