Survival and Growth of Epiphytic Ferns Depend on Resource Sharing | |
Lu, Hua-Zheng1,2; Song, Liang1; Liu, Wen-Yao1; Xu, Xing-Liang3; Hu, Yue-Hua1; Shi, Xian-Meng1,2; Li, Su1; Ma, Wen-Zhang4; Chang, Yan-Fen1; Fan, Ze-Xin1; Lu, Shu-Gang5; Wu, Yi1,2; Yu, Fei-Hai6 | |
2016-03-31 | |
发表期刊 | FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE |
卷号 | 7 |
摘要 | Locally available resources can be shared within clonal plant systems through physiological integration, thus enhancing their survival and growth. Most epiphytes exhibit clonal growth habit, but few studies have tested effects of physiological integration (resource sharing) on survival and growth of epiphytes and whether such effects vary with species. We conducted two experiments, one on individuals (single ramets) and another on groups (several ramets within a plot), with severed and intact rhizome treatments (without and with physiological integration) on two dominant epiphytic ferns (Polypodiodes subarnoena and Lepisorus scolopendrium) in a subtropical montane moist forest in Southwest China. Rhizome severing (preventing integration) significantly reduced ramet survival in the individual experiment and number of surviving ramets in the group experiment, and it also decreased biomass of both species in both experiments. However, the magnitude of such integration effects did not vary significantly between the two species. We conclude that resource sharing may be a general strategy for clonal epiphytes to adapt to forest canopies where resources are limited and heterogeneously distributed in space and time. |
关键词 | Canopy-dwelling Plants Clonal Growth Clonal Integration Forest Canopy Habitat Adaptation Montane Moist Forest Physiological Integration |
DOI | 10.3389/fpls.2016.00416 |
收录类别 | SCI |
语种 | 英语 |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000373263600005 |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://ir.kib.ac.cn/handle/151853/26182 |
专题 | 中国科学院东亚植物多样性与生物地理学重点实验室 |
作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Xishuangbanna Trop Bot Garden, Key Lab Trop Forest Ecol, Mengla, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Key Lab Ecosyst Network Observat & Modeling, Beijing, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Kunming Inst Bot, Kunming, Peoples R China 5.Yunnan Univ, Inst Ecol & Geobot, Kunming, Peoples R China 6.Beijing Forestry Univ, Sch Nat Conservat, Beijing, Peoples R China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Lu, Hua-Zheng,Song, Liang,Liu, Wen-Yao,et al. Survival and Growth of Epiphytic Ferns Depend on Resource Sharing[J]. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE,2016,7. |
APA | Lu, Hua-Zheng.,Song, Liang.,Liu, Wen-Yao.,Xu, Xing-Liang.,Hu, Yue-Hua.,...&Yu, Fei-Hai.(2016).Survival and Growth of Epiphytic Ferns Depend on Resource Sharing.FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE,7. |
MLA | Lu, Hua-Zheng,et al."Survival and Growth of Epiphytic Ferns Depend on Resource Sharing".FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 7(2016). |
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