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Drivers of plant traits that allow survival in wetlands
- Source :
- Functional Ecology, 34, 5, pp. 956-967, Functional Ecology, Functional Ecology, 34(5), 956. Wiley-Blackwell, Pan, Y, Cieraad, E, Clarkson, B R, Colmer, T D, Pedersen, O, Visser, E J W, Voesenek, L A C J & van Bodegom, P M 2020, ' Drivers of plant traits that allow survival in wetlands ', Functional Ecology, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 956-967 . https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13541, Functional Ecology, 34(5), 956-967, Functional Ecology, 34, 956-967
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Plants have developed a suite of traits to survive the anaerobic and anoxic soil conditions in wetlands. Previous studies on wetland plant adaptive traits have focused mainly on physiological aspects under experimental conditions, or compared the trait expression of the local species pool. Thus, a comprehensive analysis of potential factors driving wetland plant adaptive traits under natural environmental conditions is still missing. In this study, we analysed three important wetland adaptive traits, that is root porosity, root/shoot ratio and underwater photosynthetic rate, to explore driving factors using a newly compiled dataset of wetland plants. Based on 21 studies at 38 sites across different biomes, we found that root porosity was affected by an interaction of temperature and hydrological regime; root:shoot ratio was affected by temperature, precipitation and habitat type; and underwater photosynthetic rate was affected by precipitation and lifeāform. This suggests that a variety of driving mechanisms affect the expression of different adaptive traits. The quantitative relationships we observed between the adaptive traits and their driving factors will be a useful reference for future global methane and denitrification modelling studies. Our results also stress that besides the traditionally emphasized hydrological driving factors, other factors at several spatial scales should also be taken into consideration in the context of future functional wetland ecology. A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Adaptive strategies
Biome
Wetland
Context (language use)
Biology
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
bioclimatic variables
Precipitation
adaptive strategy
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Driving factors
geography
root porosity
underwater photosynthesic rate
geography.geographical_feature_category
Ecology
wetland plant ecophysiological adaptive trate
Plant Ecology
wetland plant functional traits
food and beverages
Aquatic Ecology
Anoxic waters
root/shoot ratio
Habitat
driving factors
010606 plant biology & botany
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 02698463
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Functional Ecology, 34, 5, pp. 956-967, Functional Ecology, Functional Ecology, 34(5), 956. Wiley-Blackwell, Pan, Y, Cieraad, E, Clarkson, B R, Colmer, T D, Pedersen, O, Visser, E J W, Voesenek, L A C J & van Bodegom, P M 2020, ' Drivers of plant traits that allow survival in wetlands ', Functional Ecology, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 956-967 . https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13541, Functional Ecology, 34(5), 956-967, Functional Ecology, 34, 956-967
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....83153c6711938afe34277d0b8db0ccf9