The ecological drivers of growth form evolution in flowering plants

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/22:10452538 RIV/00216208:11620/22:10452538

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13888" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13888</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13888" target="_blank" >10.1111/1365-2745.13888</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The ecological drivers of growth form evolution in flowering plants

Original language description

In flowering plants (angiosperms), the herbaceous habit has evolved repeatedly from the ancestral woody state and herbs evolved repeatedly back to woody plants. Yet, how common these transitions were and which ecological conditions promote the herbaceous habit is poorly known. Several hypotheses exist, postulating an advantage of the herbaceous growth form to better cope with frost, drought, fire and shade and in allowing a fast life strategy, but their evaluation has been hitherto limited and support equivocal. We aim to evaluate these hypotheses by testing the difference between woody plants and herbs for a set of variables related to these hypotheses. We compiled and integrated data for up to 21,581 species representing 359 families from public databases. We estimated the minimum number of evolutionary transitions between both growth forms. We assembled data on frost, drought, fire and shade tolerances, clonality and specific leaf area and we tested individual hypotheses by comparing herbaceous and woody angiosperm growth forms globally and within selected biomes and clades using phylogenetic comparative analyses. We found 1656 evolutionary transitions from woody towards herbaceous growth form and 2111 transitions in the opposite direction. In agreement with our expectations, herbs were more tolerant to frost and shade than woody plants and had higher specific leaf area. However, the growth forms did not differ in their fire tolerance and clonality. Furthermore, contrary to our expectation, woody plants were more drought tolerant than herbs. The majority of the differences were robust to the choice of biome or clade. Synthesis. Both herbaceous and woody habits evolved many times making the evolution of growth forms a well-replicated event and suggesting that conditions favourable for either of the growth forms emerge often and plants respond to them. Apart from standard explanation by low temperatures, the success of herbs was likely enabled also by biotic interactions-by their fast life strategy, which is beneficial in seasonal and early successional habitats, and by their ability to tolerate shade.

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

10611 - Plant sciences, botany

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

2022

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

1365-2745

Volume of the periodical

110

Issue of the periodical within the volume

7

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

1525-1536

UT code for WoS article

000780635100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85127971297