Termitaria enhance soil and forest diversity in Deciduous Dipterocarp Forest, Northern Thailand

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dc.contributor.authorKaewfoo, Manop
dc.contributor.authorBunyavejchewin, Sarayudh
dc.contributor.authorMarod, Dokrak
dc.contributor.authorWiwatwittaya, Decha
dc.contributor.authorBaillie, Ian C.
dc.contributor.authorDavies, Stuart J.
dc.contributor.authorHallett, Stephen H.
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-24T10:28:27Z
dc.date.available2024-04-24T10:28:27Z
dc.date.issued2024-04-16
dc.description.abstractWe characterised the soils and vegetation in 15 sets of four quadrats on and around mounds of Macrotermes annandalei (Isoptera, Macrotermitinae) on a plain of deep dystric clay over limestone in Deciduous Dipterocarp Forest in Northern Thailand. Termites have excavated the mounds from the deep calcareous substrate. The mound soils have darker subsoils, larger contents of clays and exchangeable cations, and higher pH values than the surrounding dystric clay loams. The thickets on the mounds are visually different from the surrounding Deciduous Dipterocarp Forest. They have few dipterocarps and are floristically similar to the regionally important Mixed Deciduous Forest. The clear visual differences are confirmed by floristic similarity, cluster, and canonical correspondence analyses for each of the tree, sapling and seedling size classes. The differences between the mound clays and surrounding red clay loams and the associations between soil and forest types are confirmed by ‘t tests’ and the significant correlations of the soil base status with the main floristic axis of the canonical correspondence analyses. Soil variability due to termites and other agents of pedoturbation can significantly contribute to short-range floristic and structural diversity in some dry tropical forests.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationKaewfoo M, Bunyavejchewin S, Marod D, et al., (2024) Termitaria enhance soil and forest diversity in Deciduous Dipterocarp Forest, Northern Thailand. Journal of Tropical Ecology, Volume 40, April 2024, e5en_UK
dc.identifier.issn0266-4674
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467423000342
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/21256
dc.language.isoen_UKen_UK
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectcationic nutrientsen_UK
dc.subjectDeciduous Dipterocarp Foresten_UK
dc.subjectMixed Deciduous foresten_UK
dc.subjectPedoturbationen_UK
dc.subjectTermitariaen_UK
dc.titleTermitaria enhance soil and forest diversity in Deciduous Dipterocarp Forest, Northern Thailanden_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK
dcterms.dateAccepted2023-11-15

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