Plant Functional Groups Dominate Responses of Plant Adaptive Strategies to Urbanization.

ABSTRACT: Urbanization causes alteration in atmospheric, soil, and hydrological factors and substantially affects a range of morphological and physiological plant traits. Correspondingly, plants might adopt different strategies to adapt to urbanization promotion or pressure. Understanding of plant traits responding to urbanization will reveal the capacity of plant adaptation and optimize the choice of plant species in urbanization green. In this study, four different functional groups (herbs, shrubs, subcanopies, and canopies, eight plant species totally) located in urban, suburban, and rural areas were selected and eight replicated plants were selected for each species at each site. Their physiological and photosynthetic properties and heavy metal concentrations were quantified to reveal plant adap

SUBMITTER: Xiao Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8669269 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature