Behavioral and economic traits reflect distinct resource acquisition strategies in tendril vines and stem twining vines.

ABSTRACT: Climbing plants are important components of tropical and many temperate forest ecosystems. Current studies regard climbing plants as a single ecological plant type and ignore the ecological differences resulting from their climbing mechanisms, which may lead to a misrepresentation of the role of climbing plants in forest dynamics. Based on behavioral traits and economic traits of climbing plants, we test the hypothesis that tendril climbers and stem twiners are characterized by different resource acquisition strategies. We quantified and compared 4 behavioral traits and 7 economic traits of four stem twining vines and four tendril vines in a temperate oak forest and further tested their differences in resource acquisition strategy. Our study found that tendril vines were scattered in a gro

SUBMITTER: Bai H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11413626 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature