Intraspecific trait variation of woody species reduced in a savanna community, southwest China.

ABSTRACT: Plants deploy various ecological strategies in response to environmental heterogeneity. In many forest ecosystems, plants have been reported to have notable inter- and intra-specific trait variation, as well as clear phylogenetic signals, indicating that these species possess a degree of phenotypic plasticity to cope with habitat variation in the community. Savanna communities, however, grow in an open canopy structure and exhibit little species diversification, likely as a result of strong environmental stress. In this study, we hypothesized that the phylogenetic signals of savanna species would be weak, the intraspecific trait variation (ITV) would be low, and the contribution of intraspecific variation to total trait variance would be reduced, owing to low species richness, multiple str

SUBMITTER: Liu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9043304 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature