期刊
PLANT ECOLOGY
卷 212, 期 12, 页码 1959-1966出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-011-9976-1
关键词
Functional traits; Leaf nitrogen and carbon; Non-resprouters; Photosynthetic capacity; PSII photochemical efficiency; Resprouters; Specific leaf area
资金
- SINREG [REN2003-07198-C02-02/GLO]
- PERSIST [CGL2006-07126/BOS]
- ESTRES [063/SGTB/2007/7.1]
- FUME [GA-243888]
- Generalitat Valenciana
- Fundacion Bancaja
- GRACCIE
- FEEDBACKS (Prometeo-Generalitat Valenciana)
- CSIC
- University of Alicante
- Universitat de Valencia
In Mediterranean ecosystems, fire is a strong selective agent among plants, and the different post-fire regeneration strategies (e.g. resprouting and non-resprouting) have implications for other plant traits. Because young plants of non-resprouters need to grow quickly and mature well before the next fire, we predict that they should possess leaf traits related to increased efficiency in growth and resource acquisition compared with resprouter species. To test this hypothesis, we measured specific leaf area, leaf nitrogen and carbon concentrations and leaf physiological traits, including gas exchange parameters and chlorophyll fluorescence, in 19 Mediterranean species cultivated in a common garden. Both cross-species and phylogenetically informed analyses suggest that non-resprouters have better physiological performance at the leaf level (i.e. higher photosynthetic capacity) than resprouters. All these results suggest that non-resprouter species are able to take greater advantage for vegetative growth and carbon fixation than resprouters during periods when water is readily available. The contrasted physiological differences between resprouters and non-resprouters reinforce the idea that these two syndromes are functionally different (i.e. they are functional types).
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