Ecological Archives A025-128-A1

Patricio N. Magliano, David D. Breshears, Roberto J. Fernández, Esteban G. Jobbágy. 2015. Rainfall intensity switches ecohydrological runoff/runon redistribution patterns in dryland vegetation patches. Ecological Applications 25:2094–2100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/15-0550.1

Appendix A. Description of the study site vegetation in Dry Chaco woodland (Argentina, lat-lon: -33.5; -66.5).

Table A1. Relative frequency of species present in transects grouped by layers (herbaceous, shrub and tree) according to their height based on Canfield lines (three 36-meter lines for each layer). Other species present in the study site, but not intercepted by transects, are the trees Geoffroea decorticans and Bulnesia retama.

Herbaceous layer (<0.5 m)

%

 

Shrub layer (0.5–2 m)

%

Stipa eriostachya

34.5

 

Larrea divaricata

46.8

Aristida mendocina

32.0

 

Senna aphylla

14.3

Pappophorum caespitosum

8.1

 

Moya spinosa

10.9

Cordobia argentea

6.9

 

Celtis ehrembergiana

10.8

Gouinia paraguayensis

3.9

 

Condalia microphylla

6.1

Abutilon terminale

2.8

 

Capparis atamisquea

4.8

Aristida adsencionis

2.6

 

Prosopis flexuosa

2.3

Celtis ehrembergiana

1.5

 

Ximenia americana

1.4

Trichloris crinita

1.4

 

Lycium teneuspinossum

1.3

Setaria leucopila

1.3

 

Schinus johnstonii

0.9

Prosopis flexuosa

1.2

 

Aloysia gratissima

0.5

Lycium teneuspinossum

1.0

 

 

 

Aloysia gratissima

0.8

 

 

 

Condalia microphylla

0.6

 

Tree layer (>2 m)

%

Moss

0.5

 

Prosopis flexuosa

63.9

Moya spinosa

0.4

 

Aspidosperma quebracho-blanco

32.7

Schinus johnstonii

0.3

 

Cercidium praecox

3.4

FigA1

Fig. A1. Non-overlapping cover frequency of the eight possible vegetation categories resulting from the combination of the three layers (herbaceous, shrub and tree) and the absence of vegetation.


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