Light-dependent associations of germination proportion with seed mass in alpine grasslands of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau

	Light-dependent associations of germination proportion with seed mass in alpine grasslands of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau
	Zhang, Chunhui 1,2,4; Du, Guozhen 2; Ma, Zhen 3,4
刊名	ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
	2017-08-01
卷号	105 页码:306-313
关键词	Bet-hedging strategy Community assembly Phylogenetic signal Regeneration niche differentiation Resource limitation Seed mass
英文摘要	Interspecific variation in seed mass and the degree of seed dormancy can contribute to the differentiation in the regeneration niche of co-occurring plant species. At the community level, however, little is known about the combined effects of biotic (seed mass) and abiotic (light availability) competitive factors on the germination proportion (GP) across species. We determined the GP for 613 angiosperm species of the eastern Qinghai-Tibet plateau grasslands under two light treatments in the field: high-light (i.e., natural) and low-light. We also measured the change in germination proportion (CGP) across both treatments for all species. Furthermore, we used both standard linear models and phylogenetic generalized linear models to test whether or not GP and CGP were associated with seed mass, which is an important trait for competitive interactions. We found a significant negative relationship between GP and seed mass only in the high-light treatment; that is, smaller seeds had a greater potential for germination than did large seeds, though this was absent under low-light. Additionally, we found a significant positive correlation between CGP and seed mass; that is, smaller-seeded species (those with a high GP under high-light) tended to germinate less whereas the larger-seeded species (low GP under low-light) tended to germinate more under low-light vs. high-light conditions. We also found that closely related species shared a similar GP in both light environments, and that they also had similar values for CGP and seed mass. In sum, a low light availability appears to neutralize the negative effect of greater seed mass on GP, thus possibly reducing the degree of regeneration niche differentiation among small- and large-seeded species. This field study has important implications for better understanding the effects of light availability on species' regeneration niche differentiation at the community level, and for interpreting how plant communities are assembled from traits of seed the starting point of the plant life cycle. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
WOS标题词	Science & Technology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine ; Technology
类目[WOS]	Ecology ; Engineering, Environmental ; Environmental Sciences
研究领域[WOS]	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Engineering
关键词[WOS]	COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY ; REGENERATION NICHE ; PLANT-COMMUNITIES ; DESERT ANNUALS ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; SPECIES LOSS ; SIZE ; SOIL ; VEGETATION ; EVOLUTION
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000404305300033
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.nwipb.ac.cn/handle/363003/7081]
专题	西北高原生物研究所_中国科学院西北高原生物研究所
作者单位	1.Qinghai Univ, State Key Lab Plateau Ecol & Agr, Xining 810016, Qinghai, Peoples R China 2.Lanzhou Univ, Sch Life Sci, State Key Lab Grassland Agroecosyst, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, Peoples R China 3.Key Lab Restorat Ecol Cold Reg Lab Qinghai, Xining 810008, Qinghai, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Northwest Inst Plateau Biol, Key Lab Adaptat & Evolut Plateau Biota, Xining 810008, Qinghai, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang, Chunhui,Du, Guozhen,Ma, Zhen. Light-dependent associations of germination proportion with seed mass in alpine grasslands of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau[J]. ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING,2017,105:306-313.
APA	Zhang, Chunhui,Du, Guozhen,&Ma, Zhen.(2017).Light-dependent associations of germination proportion with seed mass in alpine grasslands of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau.ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING,105,306-313.
MLA	Zhang, Chunhui,et al."Light-dependent associations of germination proportion with seed mass in alpine grasslands of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau".ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING 105(2017):306-313.