Phenotypic Plasticity of Early and Late Successional Forbs in Response to Shifts in Resources

We compared the phenotypic plasticity of two early successional forbs of nutrient-poor mobile dunes (Agriophyllum squarrosum and Corispermum macrocarpum) and two later successional forbs (weeds) of stabilized, higher nutrient dunes and cropland (Chenopodium acuminatum and Salsola collina) to variati...

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Main Authors:	Huang, Yingxin, Zhao, Xueyong, Zhou, Daowei, Zhang, Hongxiang, Zheng, Wei
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science 2012
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3503999/

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spelling	pubmed-35039992012-11-26 Phenotypic Plasticity of Early and Late Successional Forbs in Response to Shifts in Resources Huang, Yingxin Zhao, Xueyong Zhou, Daowei Zhang, Hongxiang Zheng, Wei Research Article We compared the phenotypic plasticity of two early successional forbs of nutrient-poor mobile dunes (Agriophyllum squarrosum and Corispermum macrocarpum) and two later successional forbs (weeds) of stabilized, higher nutrient dunes and cropland (Chenopodium acuminatum and Salsola collina) to variations in environmental factors. A controlled (including soil nutrients, water, and population density) greenhouse experiment was conducted in Horqin sandy land, China. Late successional species had high plasticity in growth response to nutrients and water or high performance in high soil nutrients and water, reflecting their higher nutrient habitat. In contrast, the early successional species have low plasticity, reflecting their adaptation to resource-poor early successional soil. Late successional species did not always have higher reproductive effort than early successional species. Plants did not have a uniform strategy of increasing reproductive effort with any environmental stressors. Reproductive effort increased with increasing water availability and decreasing nutrient levels, while density had no effect. Patterns of plasticity traits for late successional species exhibited a complex of Master-of-some and Jack-of-all-trades. Late successional species had higher performance or higher plasticity than early successional species. Public Library of Science 2012-11-21 /pmc/articles/PMC3503999/ /pubmed/23185600 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0050304 Text en © 2012 Huang et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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author	Huang, Yingxin Zhao, Xueyong Zhou, Daowei Zhang, Hongxiang Zheng, Wei
spellingShingle	Huang, Yingxin Zhao, Xueyong Zhou, Daowei Zhang, Hongxiang Zheng, Wei Phenotypic Plasticity of Early and Late Successional Forbs in Response to Shifts in Resources
author_facet	Huang, Yingxin Zhao, Xueyong Zhou, Daowei Zhang, Hongxiang Zheng, Wei
author_sort	Huang, Yingxin
title	Phenotypic Plasticity of Early and Late Successional Forbs in Response to Shifts in Resources
title_short	Phenotypic Plasticity of Early and Late Successional Forbs in Response to Shifts in Resources
title_full	Phenotypic Plasticity of Early and Late Successional Forbs in Response to Shifts in Resources
title_fullStr	Phenotypic Plasticity of Early and Late Successional Forbs in Response to Shifts in Resources
title_full_unstemmed	Phenotypic Plasticity of Early and Late Successional Forbs in Response to Shifts in Resources
title_sort	phenotypic plasticity of early and late successional forbs in response to shifts in resources
description	We compared the phenotypic plasticity of two early successional forbs of nutrient-poor mobile dunes (Agriophyllum squarrosum and Corispermum macrocarpum) and two later successional forbs (weeds) of stabilized, higher nutrient dunes and cropland (Chenopodium acuminatum and Salsola collina) to variations in environmental factors. A controlled (including soil nutrients, water, and population density) greenhouse experiment was conducted in Horqin sandy land, China. Late successional species had high plasticity in growth response to nutrients and water or high performance in high soil nutrients and water, reflecting their higher nutrient habitat. In contrast, the early successional species have low plasticity, reflecting their adaptation to resource-poor early successional soil. Late successional species did not always have higher reproductive effort than early successional species. Plants did not have a uniform strategy of increasing reproductive effort with any environmental stressors. Reproductive effort increased with increasing water availability and decreasing nutrient levels, while density had no effect. Patterns of plasticity traits for late successional species exhibited a complex of Master-of-some and Jack-of-all-trades. Late successional species had higher performance or higher plasticity than early successional species.
publisher	Public Library of Science
publishDate	2012
url	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3503999/
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Phenotypic Plasticity of Early and Late Successional Forbs in Response to Shifts in Resources

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