Aboveground and Soil Seed Bank Woody Flora Comparison in Plantation and Natural Forest, Southern Ethiopia: An Implication for Forest Ecosystem Sustainability

ABSTRACT Forest restoration depends on the availability of seeds in the soils. Understanding relationships between soil seed banks and aboveground flora is vital for framing strategies to ensure sustainable use of forest ecosystems. Human-induced pressures are threatening the natural forests of Southern Ethiopia. The aim of this study was to compare the relationships between aboveground and soil seed bank flora of the plantation and natural forest, Southern Ethiopia. Thirty-nine 20 m by 20 m quadrats were laid along six transects. Woody species with DBH ≥ 2.5 cm were recorded in each quadrat. Overall, 117 composite soil samples were collected from three soil layers of 1 m × 1 m subplots. The soil seed bank was analyzed using the seedling emergence technique. The findings revealed that the aboveground vegetation was represented by 55 woody species, whereas the soil seed bank flora was represented by 31. The seed abundance, species richness and diversity decreased with increasing soil depth. Sorensen’s similarity between the soil seed bank and aboveground flora was low inferring low restoration potential from the SSB in the natural and plantation forests. Therefore, in-situ conservation measures other than SSB alone should be implemented for sustainable development and use of the forest ecosystem.

• Publication year

  2021

• Venue

  Journal of Sustainable Forestry

• Publication date

  2021-09-20

• Fields of study

  Not labeled

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1080/10549811.2021.1979414
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• Forest and Landscape Restoration

  2021cited by this paper
• Composition Study of Soil Seed Bank at Gera Moist Evergreen Afromontane Forest, Jimma Zone of Oromia Regional State, Southwest Ethiopia

  2019cited by this paper
• Effects of Eucalyptus tree plantations on soil seed bank and soil physicochemical properties of Qimbaba forest

  2019cited by this paper
• Soil seed bank characteristics in two central African forest types and implications for forest restoration

  2018cited by this paper
• Comparison of aboveground vegetation and soil seed bank composition at sites of different grazing intensity around a savanna-woodland watering point in West Africa

  2018cited by this paper
• The Role of Soil Seed Bank in Forest Regeneration

  2018cited by this paper
• Influence of the edge effect on a soil seed bank of a natural fragment in the Atlantic Forest

  2017cited by this paper
• The biology subject group [in The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters]

  2017cited by this paper
• Relationships between soil seed banks and above-ground vegetation along a disturbance gradient in the W National Park trans-boundary biosphere reserve, West Africa

  2016influential reference
• The Vertical Distribution of Soil Seed Bank and Its Restoration Implication in an Active Sand Dune of Northeastern Inner Mongolia, China

  2016cited by this paper
• Soil Seed Bank Study at Gera Moist Evergreen Afromontane Forest, Jimma Zone of Oromia Regional State, Southwest Ethiopia

  2014cited by this paper
• Functional responses to edge effects: Seed dispersal in the southern Atlantic forest, Argentina

  2014cited by this paper
• Assessment of Soil Seedbank Composition of Woody Species in Hgumbirda National Forest Priority Area, Northeastern Ethiopia

  2014cited by this paper
• Soil seed bank and aboveground vegetation along a successional gradient on the shores of an oxbow

  2013cited by this paper
• Can hybrid poplar plantations accelerate the restoration of forest understory attributes on abandoned fields

  2013cited by this paper
• Soil Seed Bank and Seedlings Bank Composition and Diversity of Wondo Genet Moist Afromontane Forest South Central Ethiopia

  2012cited by this paper
• Soil seed bank in different habitats of the Eastern Desert of Egypt.

  2012cited by this paper
• Relationship Between Soil Seed Bank and Above-ground Vegetation of a Mixed-deciduous Temperate Forest in Northern Iran

  2011cited by this paper
• Vegetation Description and Data Analysis: A Practical Approach

  2011cited by this paper
• A protocol for data exploration to avoid common statistical problems

  2010cited by this paper
• Seed supply and the regeneration potential for plantations and shrubland in southern China

  2010cited by this paper
• ATLAS OF THE POTENTIAL VEGETATION OF ETHIOPIA

  2010cited by this paper
• Seed bank composition and above-ground vegetation in response to grazing in sub-Mediterranean oak forests (NW Greece)

  2009cited by this paper
• Soil seed bank compositional change constrains biodiversity in an invaded species-rich woodland

  2009cited by this paper
• Soil seed banks in four 22-year-old plantations in South China: Implications for restoration

  2009cited by this paper
• The relationship between soil seed bank, above‐ground vegetation and disturbance intensity on old‐field successional permanent plots

  2009cited by this paper
• Soil seed banks in tropical forest fragments with different disturbance histories in southeastern Brazil

  2007cited by this paper
• A review of similarity between seed bank and standing vegetation across ecosystems

  2007influential reference
• A Mathematical Theory of Communication

  2006cited by this paper
• Soil seed reserves in arid grazing lands of central Australia. Part 1: seed bank and vegetation dynamics

  2005cited by this paper
• Seed and regeneration ecology in dry Afromontane forests of Ethiopia: I. Seed production - population structures

  2005cited by this paper
• The Ecology of Seeds: References

  2005cited by this paper
• Soil seed bank composition and diversity in a managed temperate deciduous forest

  2004cited by this paper
• The Impact of Fire on the Soil Seed Bank and Regeneration of Harenna Forest, Southeastern Ethiopia

  2004cited by this paper
• Seed bank assembly follows vegetation succession in dune slacks

  2004cited by this paper
• Seed-bank and vegetation development in a created tidal freshwater wetland on the Delaware River, Trenton, New Jersey, USA

  2003cited by this paper
• Analysis of Ecological Communities

  2002cited by this paper
• Native woody species regeneration in exotic tree plantations at Munessa-Shashemene Forest, southern Ethiopia

  2002cited by this paper
• Soil seed banks in plantations and adjacent natural dry Afromontane forests of central and southern Ethiopia

  2002influential reference
• Soil seed bank dynamics of fire‐prone wooded grassland, woodland and dry forest ecosystems in Ethiopia

  2002cited by this paper
• Change in marine communities : an approach to statistical analysis and interpretation

  2001cited by this paper
• PAST: paleontological statistics software package for education and data analysis version 2.09

  2001cited by this paper
• Flora of Ethiopia & Eritrea

  2000cited by this paper
• Floristic composition of established vegetation and the soil seed bank in pasture communities under different traditional management regimes

  2000cited by this paper
• Floristic composition of established vegetation and the soil seed bank in pasture communities under different traditional management regimes

  2000cited by this paper
• Vascular plant propagule banks of six eastern hemlock stands in the Catskill Mountains of New York.

  2000cited by this paper
• Soil seed flora, germination and regeneration pattern of woody species in an Acacia woodland of the Rift Valley in Ethiopia

  1999cited by this paper
• The impact of clearing and conversion of dry Afromontane forests into arable land on the composition and density of soil seed banks

  1997cited by this paper
• CATALYZING NATIVE FOREST REGENERATION ON DEGRADED TROPICAL LANDS

  1997cited by this paper
• Seed ecology and regeneration in dry Afromontane forests of Ethiopia

  1996influential reference
• Edge effects in fragmented forests: implications for conservation.

  1995cited by this paper
• Soil seed banks in dry Afromontane forests of Ethiopia

  1995cited by this paper
• Catastrophic and background disturbance of tropical ecosystems at the Luquillo Experimental Forest

  1993cited by this paper
• Useful trees and shrubs for Ethiopia: Identification, propagation, and management for agricultural and pastoral communities

  1993cited by this paper
• Weed seed bank and vegetation at the beginning and end of the first cycle of a 4-course crop rotation with minimal weed control.

  1989cited by this paper
• CHAPTER 15 – Seed Banks and the Management and Restoration of Natural Vegetation

  1989cited by this paper
• Buried seed populations in the subarctic forest east of Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories

  1975cited by this paper
• Multiple Comparisons Using Rank Sums

  1964cited by this paper
• A method of establishing group of equal amplitude in plant sociobiology based on similarity of species content and its application to analyses of the vegetation on Danish commons

  1948cited by this paper
• The National Herbarium

  1872cited by this paper

• Woody Species Composition, Structure, and Soil Seed Bank of the Degraded Parts of the Gera Moist Afromontane Forest, Southwestern Ethiopia

  2024cites this paper
• Variation in soil seed bank and relationship with aboveground vegetation across microhabitats in a savanna‐woodland of West Africa

  2022cites this paper
• Climate, soil, and stand factors collectively shape the macroscopic differences in soil seed bank density between planted and natural forests

  2020cites this paper