Functional plant types drive plant interactions in a Mediterranean mountain range

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60076658:12310/16:43890649

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2016.00662" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2016.00662</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2016.00662" target="_blank" >10.3389/fpls.2016.00662</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Functional plant types drive plant interactions in a Mediterranean mountain range

Original language description

Shrubs have positive (facilitation) and negative (competition) effects on understory plants, the net interaction effect being modulated by abiotic conditions. Overall shrubs influence to great extent the structure of plant communities where they have significant presence. Interactions in a plant community are quite diverse but little is known about their variability and effects at community level. Here we checked the effects of co-occurring shrub species from different functional types on a focal understory species, determining mechanisms driving interaction outcome, and tested whether effects measured on the focal species were a proxy for effects measured at the community level. Growth, physiological, and reproductive traits of Euphorbia nicaeensis, our focal species, were recorded on individuals growing in association with four dominant shrub species and in adjacent open areas. We also recorded community composition and environmental conditions in each microhabitat. Shrubs provided environmental conditions for plant growth, which contrasted with open areas, including moister soil, greater N content, higher air temperatures, and lower radiation. Shrub-associated individuals showed lower reproductive effort and greater allocation to growth, while most physiological traits remained unaffected. Euphorbia individuals were bigger and had more leaf N under N-fixing than under non-fixing species. Soil moisture was also higher under N-fixing shrubs; therefore soil conditions in the understory may counter reduced light conditions. There was a significant effect of species identity and functional types in the outcome of plant interactions with consistent effects at individual and community levels. The contrasting allocation strategies to reproduction and growth in Euphorbia plants, either associated or not with shrubs, showed high phenotypic plasticity and evidence its ability to cope with contrasting environmental conditions.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EH - Ecology - communities

OECD FORD branch

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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

2016

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Frontiers in Plant Science

ISSN

1664-462X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

May

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000376284700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84969506246