Metabolic Niches and Plasticity of Sand-Dune Plant Communities Along a Trans-European Gradient.

ABSTRACT: Background: One of the greatest challenges to biologists is to understand the adaptive mechanisms of how plants will respond to climate at all levels from individual physiology to whole populations. For example, variation (plasticity) in the composition and concentration of metabolites will determine productivity, reproduction, and ultimately survival and distribution of plants, especially those subjected to rapid climate change. Objectives: Our aim was to study how interspecific and intraspecific metabolic variation in plant species within a single community can be elucidated. Methods: We used a metabolomics approach to study metabolic acclimation (by measuring the metabolome between plants under "common garden" controlled environment conditions) and metabolic plastic

SUBMITTER: Davey MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12029026 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature