依托哀牢山按公里网格布设的20个亚热带常绿阔叶林1 hm^(2)动态样地,选取样地内所有胸径(Diameter at breast height,DBH)≥10 cm的木果柯(Lithocarpus xylocarpus)个体作为研究对象,测量其6个功能性状(叶面积、比叶面积、叶片厚度、叶...依托哀牢山按公里网格布设的20个亚热带常绿阔叶林1 hm^(2)动态样地,选取样地内所有胸径(Diameter at breast height,DBH)≥10 cm的木果柯(Lithocarpus xylocarpus)个体作为研究对象,测量其6个功能性状(叶面积、比叶面积、叶片厚度、叶干物质含量、叶绿素含量和枝条木质密度),利用基于距离矩阵的多元回归解析遗传变异、环境距离、个体发育阶段差异对木果柯功能性状种内变异的相对作用。结果表明:木果柯的功能性状均存在不同程度的种内变异,叶面积变异最大,其次是比叶面积和叶片厚度,木质密度、叶干物质含量和叶绿素含量变异较小;对种内变异程度最大的叶面积来说,个体发育阶段差异的正效应最强,其次是遗传变异,环境距离的正效应最弱;遗传变异对叶绿素含量种内变异的正效应在所有性状中最强,而环境距离对比叶面积的正效应在所有性状中最强。展开更多
The community assembly rules and species coexistence have always been interested by ecologists. The community phylogenetic structure is the consequence of the interaction process between the organisms and the abiotic ...The community assembly rules and species coexistence have always been interested by ecologists. The community phylogenetic structure is the consequence of the interaction process between the organisms and the abiotic environment and has been used to explain the relative impact of abiotic and biotic factors on species co-existence. In recent years, grassland degradation and biodiversity loss have become increasingly severe on the Mongolian Plateau, while the drivers for these changes are not clearly explored, especially whether climate change is a main factor is debated in academia. In this study, we examined the phylogenetic structure of grassland communities along five transects of climate aridity on the Mongolian Plateau, and analyzed their relations with environmental factors, with the aims to understand the formation mechanism of the grassland communities and the role of climatic factors. We surveyed grassland communities at 81 sites along the five transects, and calculated their net relatedness index(NRI) at two different quadrat scales(small scale of 1 m2 and large scale of 5 m2) to characterize the community phylogenetic structure and analyze its relationship with the key 11 environmental factors. We also calculated the generalized UniFrac distance(GUniFrac) among the grassland communities to quantify the influence of spatial distance and environmental distance on the phylogenetic β diversity. The results indicated that plant community survey using the large scale quadrat contained sufficient species to represent community compositions. The community phylogenetic structure of grasslands was significantly overdispersed at both the small and large scales, and the degree of overdispersion was greater at the large scale than at the small scale, suggesting that competitive exclusion instead of habitat filtering played a major role in determination of community composition. Altitude was the main factor affecting the community phylogenetic structure, whereas climatic factors, such as precipitation and temperatur展开更多
文摘依托哀牢山按公里网格布设的20个亚热带常绿阔叶林1 hm^(2)动态样地,选取样地内所有胸径(Diameter at breast height,DBH)≥10 cm的木果柯(Lithocarpus xylocarpus)个体作为研究对象,测量其6个功能性状(叶面积、比叶面积、叶片厚度、叶干物质含量、叶绿素含量和枝条木质密度),利用基于距离矩阵的多元回归解析遗传变异、环境距离、个体发育阶段差异对木果柯功能性状种内变异的相对作用。结果表明:木果柯的功能性状均存在不同程度的种内变异,叶面积变异最大,其次是比叶面积和叶片厚度,木质密度、叶干物质含量和叶绿素含量变异较小;对种内变异程度最大的叶面积来说,个体发育阶段差异的正效应最强,其次是遗传变异,环境距离的正效应最弱;遗传变异对叶绿素含量种内变异的正效应在所有性状中最强,而环境距离对比叶面积的正效应在所有性状中最强。
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFC0500503)the Science and Technology Program of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China (20140409, 201503001)
文摘The community assembly rules and species coexistence have always been interested by ecologists. The community phylogenetic structure is the consequence of the interaction process between the organisms and the abiotic environment and has been used to explain the relative impact of abiotic and biotic factors on species co-existence. In recent years, grassland degradation and biodiversity loss have become increasingly severe on the Mongolian Plateau, while the drivers for these changes are not clearly explored, especially whether climate change is a main factor is debated in academia. In this study, we examined the phylogenetic structure of grassland communities along five transects of climate aridity on the Mongolian Plateau, and analyzed their relations with environmental factors, with the aims to understand the formation mechanism of the grassland communities and the role of climatic factors. We surveyed grassland communities at 81 sites along the five transects, and calculated their net relatedness index(NRI) at two different quadrat scales(small scale of 1 m2 and large scale of 5 m2) to characterize the community phylogenetic structure and analyze its relationship with the key 11 environmental factors. We also calculated the generalized UniFrac distance(GUniFrac) among the grassland communities to quantify the influence of spatial distance and environmental distance on the phylogenetic β diversity. The results indicated that plant community survey using the large scale quadrat contained sufficient species to represent community compositions. The community phylogenetic structure of grasslands was significantly overdispersed at both the small and large scales, and the degree of overdispersion was greater at the large scale than at the small scale, suggesting that competitive exclusion instead of habitat filtering played a major role in determination of community composition. Altitude was the main factor affecting the community phylogenetic structure, whereas climatic factors, such as precipitation and temperatur
