Climatic envelope of evergreen sclerophyllous oaks and their present distribution in the eastern Himalaya and Hengduan Mountains

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	Climatic envelope of evergreen sclerophyllous oaks and their present distribution in the eastern Himalaya and Hengduan Mountains
	Yang, Qing-Song 1,2; Chen, Wen-Yun1 ; Xia, Ke 1,2; Zhou, Zhe-Kun1
刊名	JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION
	2009-05-01
卷号	47 期号:3 页码:183-190
关键词	climatic indices distribution limits multiple regression analysis principal components analysis Quercus section Heterobalanus
ISSN号	0529-1526
通讯作者	zhouzk@mail.kib.ac.cn
英文摘要	Evergreen sclerophyllous oaks (the E. S. oaks, Quercus section Heterobalanus) are the dominant species of the local ecosystem in the eastern Himalaya and the Hengduan Mountains, southwest China. In this study, we document the climatic envelope of the seven E.S. oak species and examine the relationships between climate and their distribution. This was done using a principal components analysis (PCA) and multiple regression analysis (MRA) of nine climatic indices. The main climatic envelope of the E.S. oaks were: mean temperature of the warmest month (MTW)=12.0-19.5 degrees C, warmth index (WI)=33.2-88.9 degrees C month, annual biotemperature (BT)=-6.9--0.3 degrees C, coldness index (Cl)=-30.4--10.1 degrees C month, mean temperature of the coldest month (MTC)=-3.7-3.0 degrees C and annual precipitation (AP)=701-897 nun at the lower limits; and MTW=8.3-16.1 degrees C, WI=15.7-59.1 degrees C month, BT=3.6-8.9 degrees C, CI=-55.4--19.3 degrees C month, MTC=8.3-16.1 degrees C and AP=610-811 mm, at the upper limits. The climatic range of the E.S. oaks is wide and includes two climatic zones, the cool-temperature zone and the subpolar zone. The PCA and MRA results suggest that the thermal climate plays a major role and precipitation plays a secondary role in controlling the large-scale distribution of the E.S. oaks, except Quercus monimotricha. In thermal regimes, BT and/or MTW are most important for both lower and upper limits of the E.S. oaks. Furthermore, our results indicate that the upper distribution limits of the E.S. oaks are less determined by low temperatures and their duration (CI) than by other factors.
学科主题	Plant Sciences
类目[WOS]	Plant Sciences
研究领域[WOS]	Plant Sciences
关键词[WOS]	FORESTS ; LIMITS ; RANGE ; MODEL ; PATTERNS ; CHINA ; SOUTH ; ASIA
收录类别	SCI
资助信息	State Key Basic Research and Development Plan of China [2003CB415102]; National Natural Science Foundation of China [30170077, 30670159]
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000267179800001
公开日期	2012-07-25
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.kib.ac.cn/handle/151853/14317]
专题	昆明植物研究所_中国科学院东亚植物多样性与生物地理学重点实验室
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Biodivers & Biogeog, Kunming Inst Bot, Kunming 650204, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Grad Univ, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Yang, Qing-Song,Chen, Wen-Yun,Xia, Ke,et al. Climatic envelope of evergreen sclerophyllous oaks and their present distribution in the eastern Himalaya and Hengduan Mountains[J]. JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION,2009,47(3):183-190.
APA	Yang, Qing-Song,Chen, Wen-Yun,Xia, Ke,&Zhou, Zhe-Kun.(2009).Climatic envelope of evergreen sclerophyllous oaks and their present distribution in the eastern Himalaya and Hengduan Mountains.JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION,47(3),183-190.
MLA	Yang, Qing-Song,et al."Climatic envelope of evergreen sclerophyllous oaks and their present distribution in the eastern Himalaya and Hengduan Mountains".JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION 47.3(2009):183-190.