RECOVERY OF PLANT COMMUNITY AND SOIL ATTRIBUTES DURING LAND ABANDONMENT FOLLOWING CULTIVATION IN....

Using the quadrat approach, this study sought to evaluate the chances of changes in herbaceous plant composition and soil parameters during plant community succession following the abandonment of arable cultivated land. While soil exchangeable potassium, pH, and textural class were unaffected by cultivated land abandonment, soil organic carbon, total nitrogen, and accessible phosphorus increased considerably (= 0.05). The abundances of the most dominating species shift dramatically as the succession progresses. Changes in species diversity (increase and reduction) were related to species richness, but not to abundance and evenness, over the duration of the succession. To summarise, abandonment of cultivated land affects soil physical and chemical properties primarily in the first year after abandonment, implying that subsequent changes in the succession process were primarily determined by species interactions through competition or facilitation of the earlier arriving species, with their influence on soil properties playing a minor role.

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