期刊
PLANT AND SOIL
卷 351, 期 1-2, 页码 337-353出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-011-0967-8
关键词
Mound-field landscapes; Carbon stable isotopes; French Guiana; C3/C4 plants; Phytoliths; Seasonally flooded savannas
资金
- CNRS (INEE, Institut National Ecologie et Environnement) Amazonie
- Ingenierie Ecologique
Seasonally flooded South American savannas harbor different kinds of mound-field landscapes of largely unknown origin. A recent study used soil carbon-isotope depth profiles and other proxies to infer vegetation history in murundu landscapes in Brazil. Results suggested that differential erosion, not building-up processes (e.g., termite mounds), produced mounds. We tested this approach to inferring mound origin in a mound-field landscape in French Guiana. We examined carbon-isotope depth profiles of soil organic matter, phytolith profiles and contemporary vegetation composition in mounds and inter-mounds. Relative abundance of C3 and C4 plants across habitats was very different from that in murundu landscapes; C3 plants were better represented in inter-mounds than on mounds. Habitat differences in C3/C4 distribution were subtler than in murundu landscapes, limiting inference of vegetation history based on carbon isotopes. Still, carbon-isotope and phytolith depth profiles gave similar pictures of vegetation history, both favoring a building-up hypothesis, corroborating other evidence that these mounds are vestiges of ancient agricultural raised fields. Carbon-isotope depth profiles are unlikely to be adequate for deciphering origin of mound-field landscapes from vegetation history in seasonally flooded savannas. Including data on current vegetation and phytoliths makes inferences more robust.
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