edaphicとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Edaphic is a general term referring to characteristics of the soil. This could be, for example, the drainage, the texture, or soil chemical properties, such as the pH. Edaphic characteristics are often used to describe plant communities that are found only on specific soil conditions. Edaphic plant communities include:

• Sandy soils: plant communities distinct to sandy, acidic, nutrient-poor soils include the tropical heath forests and restingas and temperate pine barrens.
• Ultramafic soils: plant communities distinct to soils derived from manganese and iron-rich ultramafic rocks include ultramafic woodlands and ultramafic barrens of the Appalachian mountains and piedmont, the "wet maquis" of the New Caledonia rain forests, the ultramafic forests of Mount Kinabalu and other peaks in Sabah, Malaysia, and the Serpentine soil plant communities of California.