Joint control of plant ecological strategy by climate, regeneration mode, and ontogeny in Northeastern Chinese forests.

ABSTRACT: Research on how plant ecological strategies (competitive, stress-tolerant, or ruderal) vary within species may improve our understanding of plant and community responses to climate warming and also successional changes. With increasing temperature, the importance of ruderal (R) and stress tolerance (S) components is hypothesized to decrease, while the strength of the competitive (C) component should increase. Offshoots and younger plants are predicted to have greater R and smaller S components.Leaf area, leaf dry matter content, and specific leaf area were measured for 1,344 forest plants belonging to 134 species in Liangshui and Fenglin Nature Reserves in Northeastern China, and C, R, and S scores calculated for each. Linear mixed effect models were used to assess how these indicators dif

SUBMITTER: Zhang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8207407 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature