期刊
PLANT ECOLOGY
卷 204, 期 1, 页码 145-153出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-009-9578-3
关键词
Koenigia islandica; Germination light requirements; Arctic; Alpine; Wet-cold stratification; Genetic population differentiation
资金
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
Light is known to regulate conservative germination strategies and the formation of seed banks. Although these strategies are crucial to survival in tundra environments-especially for annuals-light requirements for germination in arctic-alpine species are seldom investigated. Furthermore, environmental differences between arctic and alpine regions are expected to lead to evolutionary divergence among conspecific populations in seed germination strategies. In this study, we report important differences in germination light requirements among six arctic and alpine populations of the annual Koenigia islandica. Light had little effect on germination of the seeds from Iqaluit (Nunavut, Canada), Yukon (Canada), and Jasper (Alberta, Canada), whereas the seeds from the most severe climates, Svalbard (Norway) and Colorado (USA), had strong light requirements. Stratification of the seeds had little influence on their germination light requirements, with the exception of the population from Dovre (Norway), in which it induced a strong light requirement. Possible adaptive explanations and some implications of these observed germination patterns are discussed.
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