Ecological analysis of disturbed riverbanks in the Montréal area of Québec |
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Authors: | Edith Morin André Bouchard Pierre Jutras |
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Institution: | (1) Institut botanique de l'Université de Montréal, Jardin botanique de la Ville de Montréal, 4101 est, rue Sherbrooke, H1X 2B2 Montréal, Québec, Canada |
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Abstract: | In revegetation trials on disturbed riverbank sites in the Montréal region (Québec, Canada), an analysis of their structure by means of their biotic and abiotic components was undertaken. Vegetation sampling and physical surveys, together with soil analyses of 62 stands, grouped in 20 sectors, were carried out in the summer of 1986. The statistical analyses of biotic and abiotic data were executed in parallel by a hierarchical agglomerative cluster analysis (arithmetic average clustering) and by an ordination in reduced space (principal coordinate analysis). The species colonizing these riverbanks are, for the most part, ruderals from the Montréal region, of which more than 50% are introduced species. The pioneering communities characterizing these artificial habitats have had very little impact on the physical conditions of their environment; therefore, the ordination on the plant communities proves to be strongly correlated to the ordination stemming from the abiotic components. The statistical analysis retains the original sectors, underlining the fact that each human intervention generally results in the creation of a particular ecological situation. |
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Keywords: | Ecological analysis Artificial urban riverbanks Principal coordinate analysis Hierarchical agglomerative cluster analysis Qué bec |
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