Patterns and drivers of plant sexual systems in the dry-hot valley region of southwestern China

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	Patterns and drivers of plant sexual systems in the dry-hot valley region of southwestern China
	Ma, Rong; Xu, Qi; Gao, Yongqian; Peng, Deli; Sun, Hang; Song, Bo
	2024
发表期刊	PLANT DIVERSITY
ISSN	2096-2703
卷号	46 期号:2 页码:158-168
摘要	Sexual systems play important roles in angiosperm evolution and exhibit substantial variations among different floras. Thus, studying their evolution in a whole flora is crucial for understanding the formation and maintenance of plant biodiversity and predicting its responses to environmental change. In this study, we determined the patterns of plant sexual systems and their associations with geographic elements and various life-history traits in dry-hot valley region of southwestern China, an extremely vulnerable ecosystem. Of the 3166 angiosperm species recorded in this area, 74.5% were hermaphroditic, 13.5% were monoecious and 12% were dioecious, showing a high incidence of diclinous species. Diclinous species were strongly associated with tropical elements, whereas hermaphroditic species were strongly associated with temperate and cosmopolitan elements. We also found that hermaphroditism was strongly associated with showy floral displays, specialist entomophily, dry fruits and herbaceous plants. Dioecy was strongly associated with inconspicuous, pale-colored flowers, generalist entomophily, fleshy fruits, and woody plants, whereas monoecy was strongly associated with inconspicuous, pale-colored flowers, anemophily, dry fruits, and herbaceous plants. In addition, hermaphroditic species with generalist entomophily tended to flower in the dry season, whereas diclinous species with specialist entomophily tended to flower in the rainy season. However, independent of sexual systems, plants that produce dry fruits tended to flower in the rainy season and set fruits in the dry season, but the opposite pattern was found for fleshy fruit-producing plants. Our results suggest that in the dry-hot valleys, plant sexual systems are associated with geographic elements as well as various life-history traits that are sensitive to environmental change. Copyright (c) 2023 Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
DOI	10.1016/j.pld.2023.07.010
WOS记录号	WOS:001225664500001
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.kib.ac.cn/handle/151853/76049
专题	中国科学院昆明植物研究所
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ma, Rong,Xu, Qi,Gao, Yongqian,et al. Patterns and drivers of plant sexual systems in the dry-hot valley region of southwestern China[J]. PLANT DIVERSITY,2024,46(2):158-168.
APA	Ma, Rong,Xu, Qi,Gao, Yongqian,Peng, Deli,Sun, Hang,&Song, Bo.(2024).Patterns and drivers of plant sexual systems in the dry-hot valley region of southwestern China.PLANT DIVERSITY,46(2),158-168.
MLA	Ma, Rong,et al."Patterns and drivers of plant sexual systems in the dry-hot valley region of southwestern China".PLANT DIVERSITY 46.2(2024):158-168.

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