Vegetation changes in a field abandoned after a wheat crop

The natural vegetation of well drained fields of Southern Santa Fe (Argentina) are a different kind of communities characterized by the abundance of several species of Stipa. When agricultural lands are abandoned, they are often recolonized by the original vegetation. The object of this paper is to analize the first ten years of secondary succession on a field under a long time of agriculture abandoned after a wheat crop. On the first year, wheat with annual weeds (Chenopodium album and Portulaca oleracea) appeared. After the first year, one plot was colonized by Baccharis salicifolia and the others by Carduus acanthoides, Cerastium glomeratum, Ammi majus, etc. The last years constitute another stage where diversity is reduced and a strong dominance of Baccharis salicifolia or Carduus acanthoides becomes visible. Johnson grass appeared at the begining of the succession and stayed for the whole period with high abundance values. So far no species of the natural communities have established on this field, possibly because not enough time has elapsed yet or because they are absent from the seed bank or in the neighbourhood.The natural vegetation of well drained fields of Southern Santa Fe (Argentina) are a different kind of communities characterized by the abundance of several species of Stipa. When agricultural lands are abandoned, they are often recolonized by the original vegetation. The object of this paper is to analize the first ten years of secondary succession on a field under a long time of agriculture abandoned after a wheat crop. On the first year, wheat with annual weeds (Chenopodium album and Portulaca oleracea) appeared. After the first year, one plot was colonized by Baccharis salicifolia and the others by Carduus acanthoides, Cerastium glomeratum, Ammi majus, etc. The last years constitute another stage where diversity is reduced and a strong dominance of Baccharis salicifolia or Carduus acanthoides becomes visible. Johnson grass appeared at the begining of the succession and stayed for the whole period with high abundance values. So far no species of the natural communities have established on this field, possibly because not enough time has elapsed yet or because they are absent from the seed bank or in the neighbourhood.The natural vegetation of well drained fields of Southern Santa Fe (Argentina) are a different kind of communities characterized by the abundance of several species of Stipa. When agricultural lands are abandoned, they are often recolonized by the original vegetation. The object of this paper is to analize the first ten years of secondary succession on a field under a long time of agriculture abandoned after a wheat crop. On the first year, wheat with annual weeds (Chenopodium album and Portulaca oleracea) appeared. After the first year, one plot was colonized by Baccharis salicifolia and the others by Carduus acanthoides, Cerastium glomeratum, Ammi majus, etc. The last years constitute another stage where diversity is reduced and a strong dominance of Baccharis salicifolia or Carduus acanthoides becomes visible. Johnson grass appeared at the begining of the succession and stayed for the whole period with high abundance values. So far no species of the natural communities have established on this field, possibly because not enough time has elapsed yet or because they are absent from the seed bank or in the neighbourhood

Breve revisión sobre el desarrollo de los conocimientos sobre la dinámica de la vegetación

Con el tiempo la vegetación sufre cambios tanto en su composición florística como en la importancia relativa de sus especies. Estos cambios pueden ser fenológicos debido a la estacionalidad, en forma de fluctuaciones debido a variaciones ambientales interanuales, cambios cíclicos cuando ocurre una secuencia recurrente de poblaciones específicas en un sitio determinado, o bien cambios unidereccionales en la vegetación, cuyas etapas constituyen la sucesión vegetal. A lo largo de la historia de la ciencia de la vegetación, se han propuesto distintos modelos y teorías que han tratado de explicar la dinámica y los procesos que ocurren durante la sucesión vegetal. El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar una breve revisión de los mismos.Vegetation undergoes changes along time in its floristical composition as well as in the relative importance of its species. These may be phenological changes along seasons, fluctuations due to interannual environmental variation, cyclic changes when there is a recurrent sequence of specific populations in a site, and unidirectional changes in vegetation, which are known as plant succession. Along the history of vegetation science different models and theories have been proposed in order to explain the dynamics of such complex systems and the processes which occur during plant succession. The object of this paper is to offer a brief review of them

Cambios en la vegetacion de un campo abandonado despues de un cultivo de trigo

La vegetación prístina de los campos altos del sur de Santa Fe (Argentina) son distintos tipos de flechillares caracterizados por la abundancia de varias especies del género Stipa. Cuando un campo agrícola se abandona suele revertir a las comunidades prístinas. El objeto de este trabajo es analizar los diez primeros años de la sucesión secundaria de un campo sometido a agricultura durante largo tiempo que se abandonó después de un cultivo de trigo (Triticum aestivum). En el primer año aparece trigo acompañado de malezas anuales (Chenopodium album y Portulaca oleracea); después del primer año una parcela fue colonizada por Baccharis salicifolia y las otras por Carduus acanthoides, Cerastium glomeratum, Ammi majus, etc. Los últimos años constituyen una etapa en la que disminuye la diversidad y se establece una fuerte dominancia de Baccharis salicifolia o Carduus acanthoides. El Sorgo de Alepo (Sorghum halepense) aparece en las etapas tempranas y perdura durante todo el período con valores altos de abundancia. Aún, prácticamente no han aparecido especies de los flechillares, por lo tanto se concluye que no ha transcurrido suficiente tiempo para que se regenere el flechillar, o porque sus especies no se encuentran en los bancos de semillas o en las proximidades