Transgenerational effects of land use on offspring performance and growth in Trifolium repens

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• 作者：Zhengwen Wang ; Oliver Bossdorf ; Daniel Prati ; Markus Fischer ; Mark van Kleunen
• 关键词：Competition ; Foraging ; Grazing ; Mowing ; Phenotypic plasticity
• 刊名：Oecologia
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：February 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：180
• 期：2
• 页码：409-420
• 全文大小：850 KB
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• 作者单位：Zhengwen Wang (1)
  Oliver Bossdorf (2)
  Daniel Prati (3)
  Markus Fischer (3) (4)
  Mark van Kleunen (5)
  
  1. State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110164, China
  2. Institute of Evolution and Ecology, Plant Evolutionary Ecology, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 5, 72076, Tübingen, Germany
  3. Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Altenbergrain 21, 3013, Bern, Switzerland
  4. Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre BIK-F, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325, Frankfurt, Germany
  5. Department of Biology, Ecology, University of Konstanz, Universitätsstrasse 10, Konstanz, 78464, Germany
  
• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Life Sciences
  Ecology
  Plant Sciences
  
• 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
• ISSN：1432-1939

文摘

Central European grasslands vary widely in productivity and in mowing and grazing regimes. The resulting differences in competition and heterogeneity among grasslands might have direct effects on plants, but might also affect the growth and morphology of their offspring through maternal effects or adaptive evolution. To test for such transgenerational effects, we grew plants of the clonal herb Trifolium repens from seeds collected in 58 grassland sites differing in productivity and mowing and grazing intensities in different treatments: without competition, with homogeneous competition, and with heterogeneous competition. In the competition-free treatment, T. repens from more productive, less frequently mown, and less intensively grazed sites produced more vegetative offspring, but this was not the case in the other treatments. When grown among or in close proximity to competitors, T. repens plants did not show preferential growth towards open spaces (i.e., no horizontal foraging), but did show strong vertical foraging by petiole elongation. In the homogeneous competition treatment, petiole length increased with the productivity of the parental site, but this was not the case in the heterogeneous competition treatment. Moreover, petiole length increased with mowing frequency and grazing intensity of the parental site in all but the homogeneous competition treatment. In summary, although the expression of differences between plants from sites with different productivities and land-use intensities depended on the experimental treatment, our findings imply that there are transgenerational effects of land use on the morphology and performance of T. repens. Keywords Competition Foraging Grazing Mowing Phenotypic plasticity