Reproduction by seed and clonality in plants: correlated syndromes or independent strategies?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/16:10329036

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12646" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12646</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12646" target="_blank" >10.1111/1365-2745.12646</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Reproduction by seed and clonality in plants: correlated syndromes or independent strategies?

Original language description

Although there are a number of functional differences between these sets of traits underlying two different modes of reproduction, they both constitute a response to ecological gradients, which makes them potentially interdependent. We performed phylogenetic regressions of seed traits and traits of bud banks and clonal growth across the Central European flora. We took Ellenberg indicator values and indices of responses to disturbance as information on the positions of species optima along important ecological gradients. The analyses show that there are almost no relationships between these two groups of traits. This contrasts with the existence of strong correlations within these groups of traits which indicate specific syndromes of seed reproduction and of clonality. Both seed traits and traits of bud banks and clonal growth show fairly strong phylogenetic conservatism. The absence of correlations between individual groups of traits is at least partly due to the fact that each trait group shows relationships to different parameters of species' niches. Bud bank traits are determined by the disturbance niche of the species, clonal traits by soil and climatic factors, while seed traits show only weak correlations with the examined environmental factors if phylogeny is taken into account.Synthesis. The absence of integrated syndromes that would cover both seed reproduction and clonality across the flora implies that there are no selective forces that would affect both trait groups simultaneously. Clonal and bud bank traits are more tightly linked to species' niches, presumably because they are selected by local population processes only, in contrast to seed traits, which play a role also in dispersal. As the phylogenetic conservatism of clonal traits is almost as strong as the phylogenetic conservatism of seed traits, these traits do not serve as an evolutionarily more flexible alternative to seed reproduction.

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

EF - Botany

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

Journal of Ecology

ISSN

0022-0477

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

104

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

1696-1706

UT code for WoS article

000385915200018

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84992088276