Climbing strategy in herbs does not necessarily lead to lower investments into stem biomass

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Alternative codes found

RIV/67985939:_____/20:00534064 RIV/00216208:11310/20:10424698

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11258-020-01070-9" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11258-020-01070-9</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11258-020-01070-9" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11258-020-01070-9</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Climbing strategy in herbs does not necessarily lead to lower investments into stem biomass

Original language description

Herbaceous climbers (vines) represent a growth strategy in which the stem lacks most of its supporting function. This has led to the hypothesis that herbaceous climbers are structural parasites that invest less into stems than self-supporting plants. So far, the support for this idea has been ambiguous, as woody and herbaceous plants have been discussed jointly and evidence is often based on young plants in pot experiments. We collected in wild fully grown temperate herbaceous climbers and self-supporting herbs to examine the idea. We made a phylogenetically informed comparison of biomass allocation into stems and leaves of 16 climber species and 74 self-supporting herbs. Furthermore, we compared our results with those published for woody climbers to gain insight into different biomass allocation between herbaceous and woody growth forms. We found that herbaceous climbers and self-supporting herbs do not differ in their proportion of stem biomass to leaf biomass. Herbaceous climbers reach much higher in the canopy thanks to their climbing habit and in average more than seven times longer stems, but contrary to the expectation and unlike their woody counterparts, they do not save on investment into the stem. Herbaceous climbers and self-supporting herbs represent a study system which provides insight into biomass scaling with versus without supporting function where both stems as well as leaves are seasonal.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Plant Ecology

ISSN

1385-0237

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

221

Issue of the periodical within the volume

11

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

1159-1166

UT code for WoS article

000558831000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85089137108