caa a22 4500 475750934 CHVBK 20180406123523.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1009846605935 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1009846605935 Floristic relationship between scrubland and grassland patches in the Mediterranean landscape of the Iberian Peninsula [Elektronische Daten] [L. Ramírez-Sanz, M.A. Casado, J.M. de Miguel, I. Castro, M. Costa, F.D. Pineda] In the rural Mediterranean landscape, mosaics of patches of sclerophyllous scrubland and semi-natural grasslands are frequent. The plant communities of these patches, which are physiognomically easy to recognise, are very heterogeneous. The objective of this paper is to determine whether the patches of scrub-grassland represent an integrated response unit of the vegetation with regard to the physical environment (climatic, geographical and edaphic factors) and human use, or whether, on the contrary, this is an independent response. In order to do this a total of 50 sampling sites where scrubland and grassland patches were in contact were studied along a 370km E-W mesoclimatic gradient from central Spain to Portugal (Iberian Peninsula). Two distinct zones, the east and the west halves of the study area, were identified according to the plant communities. Within each of these zones, each type of patch responded to the previously mentioned factors, differentially and independently. This determined a general lack of inter-community association or floristic correlation between scrub and grassland plant communities in contact. The spatial association is a random process probably related to the particular human management realised on every scrubland and grassland patch. The scrub-grassland pattern, which is characteristic of the Mediterranean landscape, does not represent an integrated response unit of the vegetation to a given environment, but rather the sum of the independent responses to the environment of the two patches in contact. Nomenclature for taxa: T. G. Tutin etal. 1694-1980. Flora Europaea Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Environmental gradient nationallicence Inter-community association nationallicence Mediterranean scrubland nationallicence Rural landscape nationallicence Spatial association nationallicence Therophyte grasslands nationallicence Ramírez-Sanz L. Centro de Investigaciones Ambientales de la Comunidad de Madrid, 'sFernando González Bernáldez', C/ San Sebastian 71, Soto del Real, 28791, Madrid, Spain aut Casado M.A. Departamento interuniversitario de Ecología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain aut de Miguel J.M. Departamento interuniversitario de Ecología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain aut Castro I. Departamento interuniversitario de Ecología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain aut Costa M. Departamento de Biología Vegetal I, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain aut Pineda F.D. Departamento interuniversitario de Ecología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain aut Plant Ecology Kluwer Academic Publishers 149/1(2000-07-01), 63-70 1385-0237 149:1<63 2000 149 11258 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009846605935 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009846605935 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ramírez-Sanz L. Centro de Investigaciones Ambientales de la Comunidad de Madrid, 'sFernando González Bernáldez', C/ San Sebastian 71, Soto del Real, 28791, Madrid, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Casado M.A. Departamento interuniversitario de Ecología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- de Miguel J.M. Departamento interuniversitario de Ecología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Castro I. Departamento interuniversitario de Ecología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Costa M. Departamento de Biología Vegetal I, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pineda F.D. Departamento interuniversitario de Ecología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Plant Ecology Kluwer Academic Publishers 149/1(2000-07-01), 63-70 1385-0237 149:1<63 2000 149 11258 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer