SOIL-PLANT INTERRELATIONS AND VEGETATION
BOUNDARIES ALONG AN ELEVATION GRADIENT IN A
HUNGARIAN SODIC GRASSLAND

Márta. ZALATNAI, László KÖRMÖCZI, Tibor TÓTH


Abstract: In a 30 m transect soil-plant interrelations and vegetation boundaries influenced by edaphic factors
were studied with moving split window (MSW) techniques. Boundaries between vegetation patches were
sharp lines on the basis of both visual observation and MSW analysis but the boundaries between the different
soil sections separated by MSW analysis were wider. Factor analysis showed that in the four vegetation
sections separated by MSW the correlation coefficients were significant between plant and soil at p<0.01.

Keywords: moving split window, transect, solonetz