期刊
NEW PHYTOLOGIST
卷 230, 期 2, 页码 832-844出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/nph.17069
关键词
bud position; drought; fire frequency; fire intensity; life history; Poaceae; photosynthetic pathway; traits
资金
- Natural Environment Research Council [1371737]
- Project Sunshine studentship
- Royal Society [UF120016]
- Royal Society [UF120016] Funding Source: Royal Society
The study found that resprouters are more closely associated with less frequent fires compared to seeders. Resprouters typically have lower leaf N, higher C:N ratios, and belowground buds, while seeder distributions are influenced by competitive ability and recruitment.
Plant populations persist under recurrent fire via resprouting from surviving tissues (resprouters) or seedling recruitment (seeders). Woody species are inherently slow maturing, meaning that seeders are confined to infrequent fire regimes. However, for grasses, which mature faster, the relationships between persistence strategy and fire regime remain unknown. Globally, we analysed associations between fire regimes experienced by hundreds of grass species and their persistence strategy, within a phylogenetic context. We also tested whether persistence strategies are associated with morphological and physiological traits. Resprouters were associated with less frequent fire than seeders. Whilst modal fire frequencies were similar (fire return interval of 4-6 yr), seeders were restricted to regions with more frequent fire than resprouters, suggesting that greater competition with long-lived resprouters restricts seeder recruitment and survival when fire is rare. Resprouting was associated with lower leaf N, higher C:N ratios and the presence of belowground buds, but was unrelated to photosynthetic pathway. Differences between the life histories of grasses and woody species led to a contrasting prevalence of seeders and resprouters in relation to fire frequency. Rapid sexual maturation in grasses means that seeder distributions, relative to fire regime, are determined by competitive ability and recruitment, rather than time to reproductive maturity.
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