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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY
卷 87, 期 10, 页码 1495-1506出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.2307/2656876
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altitude; climate; Cornaceae; Cornus; ecological wood anatomy; genus-level trends; latitude; species-level trends
Latitudinal trends in wood anatomical characters in three Asiatic species of Cornus sensu lato (s.l.) were studied and compared with those for the whole genus based on an extensive sampling covering the specific distribution ranges and the generic data from a previous study. We studied 124 specimens of C, controversa growing between 31.5 degrees and 45.3 degrees N, 54 of C. kousa between 24.4 degrees and 40.5 degrees N, and 64 of C. macrophylla between 27.8 degrees and 41.0 degrees N. Characters studied were Vessel element length, fiber length, vessel frequency, tangential vessel diameter, and Vessel grouping index. At the species level no latitudinal trends were detected throughout the distribution ranges of the species. Neither tree size, altitude, nor climatic factors had a significant correlation with wood anatomical characters. In contrast, at the genus level, latitudinal trends were significant not just for the whole genus, but for both New and Old World species groups. At the genus level, latitude and three climatic factors all had a significant correlation with wood anatomical characters, but correlation coefficients with latitude were markedly high. The difference in latitudinal trends between the genus and species levels may be due to the radiation of Comics along paleoclimatic gradients in the early Tertiary.
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