不同纬度植物群落系统发育与功能性状结构研究

研究植物群落系统发育和功能性状结构有助于了解植物多样性维持机制及物种间的亲缘关系。甘肃省地理环境复杂,显著而多变的气候梯度形成了区域植被和环境差异,丰富了栖息地类型,具有显著的纵向连通性和纬度隔离性,以甘肃省典型纬度梯度植物群落为研究对象,通过对其进行群落学调查和功能性状测定,计算净亲缘关系指数(Net relatedness index, NRI)和平均成对性状距离(Mean pairwise trait distance, PW)来分析植物群落系统发育结构和功能性状格局对不同纬度的响应。结果表明：(1) Shannon-Weiner多样性指数,物种丰富度,谱系α多样性指数表现出随纬度增加而显著降低的变化趋势(P<0.05),Pielou均匀度指数随纬度的升高没有显著的变化趋势;(2)系统发育结构在高、低纬度上趋于发散状态(NRI<0),在中纬度上又表现出聚集(NRI>0)的谱系结构,表明种间竞争作用减弱,环境过滤作用逐渐增强,随纬度继续升高相似性限制作用在物种聚集过程中占优势;而群落的功能性状结构随着纬度增加表现出与谱系结构相反的状态,因此植物群落的系统发育和功能...     

青藏高原东缘禾叶风毛菊的繁殖分配与海拔的相关性

通过采样调查法和烘干称重法,对分布在青藏高原东缘不同海拔高度的禾叶风毛菊的繁殖分配的特征进行研究。结果表明：（1）随着海拔的升高,禾叶风毛菊的个体大小、营养器官生物量、繁殖器官生物量、个体管状小花数目、雄蕊质量均与海拔呈负相关关系（P<0.01）;繁殖分配、管状小花生物量、雌蕊质量均与海拔呈正相关关系（P<0.01）;（2）繁殖分配是依赖个体大小的,个体越大,繁殖分配越小（P<0.01）;（3）禾叶风毛菊个体管状小花的数目及重量（P<0.05）、雌雄蕊重量（P<0.05）之间存在权衡关系。由此推论：（1）海拔作为外界因子对禾叶风毛菊花期各生物量及繁殖分配有显著的影响,但海拔并不是影响禾叶风毛菊繁殖分配唯一生态因子,植株个体大小也与其繁殖分配策略密切相关;（2）禾叶风毛菊的垂直分布的特征很有可能就是海拔通过影响植株个体大小变化来完成的。     

应用Illumina MiSeq高通量测序技术分析河西走廊地区盐碱土壤微生物多样性

【目的】以甘肃省河西走廊地区的9个盐碱土壤样品(原生盐碱土、次生盐碱土、农田土)为材料,研究该地区盐碱土壤中微生物群落的多样性。【方法】提取土壤微生物总DNA,应用Illumina Mi Seq高通量测序技术进行分析。【结果】从分布在河西走廊3个流域的9个盐碱土样品中共获得325 089条微生物的16S r RNA基因序列。冗余分析和热图分析表明,原生盐碱土与次生盐碱土、原生盐碱土与农田土微生物群落构成差异较大,次生盐碱土与农田土微生物群落差异较小。土壤p H对微生物群落组成的影响最显著。多样性指数和稀释性曲线分析得出,在9个土壤样品中,S6号Shannon指数最大,S1号Shannon指数最小,S1号Simpson指数最大,S6号Simpson指数最小,说明原生盐碱土的微生物群落多样性最低,次生盐碱土的微生物群落多样性最高。盐碱土壤中主要的微生物群落包括9个门,其中变形菌门占主导地位,其余依次是放线菌门、拟杆菌门、酸杆菌门、浮霉菌门、绿弯菌门、芽单胞菌门、厚壁菌门和疣微菌门。原生盐碱土和农田土中占优势的微生物群落是变形菌门,次生盐碱土中占优势的微生物群落是放线菌门。【结论】河西走廊地区盐碱土壤中微生物多样性非常丰富,存在大量的微生物类群,尤其是在次生盐碱土壤中。     

基于功能性状及系统发育的亚高寒草甸群落构建北大核心CSCD

为了解甘南藏族自治州亚高寒草甸植物群落在坡向梯度上的构建机制,该文选取5个坡向的样地,构建了植物群落系统发育树,测定了各坡向土壤环境因子和植物叶片的功能性状,检验了叶片功能性状的系统发育信号。结果表明:坡向变化对土壤含水量、土壤养分含量影响显著。大部分植物的叶片特征在不同坡向的差异显著,叶片干物质含量在南坡、西南坡较高,比叶面积和叶片氮、磷含量在北坡和西北坡较高。叶片的磷含量具有微弱的系统发育信号,而叶片干物质含量、比叶面积、叶片的氮含量均没表现出显著的系统发育信号。从南坡到北坡,群落的系统发育结构由发散到聚集。生境过滤作用是南坡、西南坡群落构建的驱动因素,种间竞争是北坡和西北坡群落构建的主要驱动力。西坡系统发育指数相反,其构建机制比较复杂,可能是几种机制共同作用的结果。     

Exploring the community assembly of subalpine meadow communities based on functional traits and community phylogeny

Aims The community assembly has been a prominent issue in community ecology. This work was intended to explore the mechanisms of the species coexistence and biodiversity in communities. Our objective was to explore the mechanisms of community assembly in subalpine meadow plant communities along slope gradients in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, Northwest China.Methods We selected five slope-oriented plots to construct a super-tree representing the species pool. We surveyed the leaf functional traits and soil environmental factors in different slopes. Then we tested the phylogenetic signal of leaf dry matter content (LDMC), specific leaf area (SLA), leaf nitrogen content (LNC) and leaf phosphorus content (LPC).Important findings The changes of slope aspect had significant influence on soil water content (SWC) and soil nutrient content. Most of the plants leaf functional traits had significant difference along different slope aspects. The LDMC was higher in south and southwest slope than north slope, while SLA, LNC and LPC were relatively high in north and northwest slope. The LPC showed feeble phylogenetic signal, while LDMC, SLA, LNC did not have a significant phylogenetic signal. With changes in the slope aspect from south to north, community phylogenetic structure shifted from over-dispersion to clustered dispersion. In south and southwest slope, habitat filtering was the driving force for community assembly. Interspecific competition was the main driving factor for community assembly in north and northwest slope aspects. But in west slope, two indices showed contrary consequence. This means the process of community assembly in west slope was more complicated and its phylogenetic index may be the result of several mechanisms working together.     

Patterns of flower morphology and structural changes during interconversion between chasmogamous and cleistogamous flowers in Viola philippica

Aims Viola philippica is a species with a typical chasmogamous-cleistogamous (CH-CL) mixed breeding system. It provides a flower model system to investigate floral organs development under different photoperiods. Morphological changes of intermediate cleistogamous (inCL) flowers have been observed, the trends in variation of changes from CH flowers to CL flowers or from CL flowers to CH flowers have been analyzed, the localized effects of poorly developed stamens and petals in CL and inCL flowers have been identified. This research provided morphology and structural changes with implication for the evolutionary significance of the dimorphic flower formation for further study in dimorphic flower development.Methods We used methods of anatomy and structural analysis to observe the morphological structures of flowers under different photoperiods.Important findings Photoperiod played an important role in the development of CH and CL flowers in V. philippica. Under short-day light and intermediate-day light, both CH and inCL flowers developed simultaneously. Most of the floral buds were CH flowers under a photoperiod of short-day light, but most of the floral buds were inCL flowers under mid-day light. Complete CL flowers formed under long-day lights. However, there were a series of transitional types in the number and morphology of stamens and petals among inCL flowers, including five stamens with three petals related to CH flowers and two stamens with one petal related to CL flowers. The former type was dominant under short-day light conditions, and the latter type was dominant under mid-day light. Further more, there were localized effects in stamen and petal development for CL and inCL flowers. The development of ventral lower petal (corresponding to the lower petal with spur of CH flower) and the adjacent two stamens in inCL flowers were best, and the back petal was similar to that of CL flowers, an organ primordium structure. The adjacent stamens with the back petals tended to be poorly developed. In extreme cases, these stamens in inCL flowers had no pollen sac, only a membranous appendage or even a primordium structure. When the plants with CL or CH flowers were placed under short-day light or long-day light, the newly induced flowers all showed a series of inCL flower types, finally the CL flowers transformed into CH flowers, and the CH flowers transformed into CL flowers. This result indicates the gradual effects of different photoperiods on dimorphic flowers development of V. philippica. A long photoperiod could inhibit the development of partial stamens and petals, and a short photoperiod could prevent the suppression of long-day light and promote the development of stamens and petals.     

祁连山高寒草地甘肃臭草叶性状与坡向间的关系

植物功能性状可反映植物对环境的适应。在祁连山高寒退化草地, 利用ArcGIS建立研究区域的数字高程模型, 提取坡向数据, 采用标准化主轴估计方法(standardized major axis estimation, SMA), 研究了不同坡向甘肃臭草(Melica przewalskyi)叶性状间的关系。结果表明: 1)甘肃臭草叶面积和叶体积在北坡最大, 东坡、西坡、南坡逐渐减小, 叶干质量无显著变化; 2)叶面积与叶干质量在北坡、东坡和西坡呈等速生长关系, 在南坡呈异速生长关系, 且叶干质量的增长速度大于叶面积的增长速度; 3)叶体积与叶干质量在4个坡向上呈异速生长关系, 且叶干质量的增长速度均小于叶体积的增长速度。甘肃臭草叶性状关系随坡向的变化反映了该物种在异质生境中具有较强的叶片形态可塑性, 从而有利于其适应和占据高寒退化生境。     

光照下菜豆叶片抗氰呼吸与光合作用关系的分析

为了进一步了解光照下植物呼吸作用的内在机理以及呼吸作用和光合作用的关系, 该文研究了在光照下菜豆(Phaseolus vulgaris)叶片抗氰呼吸与光合作用的关系。研究发现, 将黑暗下生长的菜豆幼苗叶片转到光照下10 h, 总呼吸、抗氰呼吸以及抗氰呼吸在总呼吸中的比例均逐步上升; 光照也导致了叶片叶绿体光合放氧和CO₂固定的出现及其速率的增加, 但光合放氧和CO₂固定速率的增加均滞后于抗氰呼吸的增加。将黑暗下生长的叶片转到光照下之前用抗氰呼吸的抑制剂水杨基氧肟酸(SHAM)处理叶片, 发现用SHAM处理并没有导致叶片在光照下光合放氧和CO₂固定速率的明显变化, 这也提示了黑暗下生长的叶片转至光照的过程中, 抗氰呼吸和光合作用没有产生偶联。进一步研究发现, 在黑暗中对叶片施加短时间的光照能够增加抗氰呼吸在总呼吸中的比例, 但短时间的光照对叶片光合CO₂固定速率没有影响。这些结果表明了光照对抗氰呼吸的诱导可以不依赖于光合作用, 光照可能是作为一种直接的信号去诱导抗氰呼吸。     

高寒草地甘肃臭草根系分形结构的坡向差异性

根系分形结构是植物根系构型应对环境异质性的表型可塑性结果, 可反映植物对生长环境的适应策略。利用ArcGIS建立研究区域的数字高程模型, 并提取坡向数据, 采用全根挖掘和Win-RHIZO根系分析仪相结合的方法, 研究了祁连山北坡高寒退化草地不同坡向甘肃臭草(Melica przewalskyi)的根系分形结构。结果表明: 随着坡向由北坡向东坡、西坡、南坡转变, 草地群落的密度、高度和土壤含水量逐渐减小, 甘肃臭草种群的密度、高度以及根系分形丰度呈逐渐增大的趋势、分形维数逐渐减小; 不同坡向甘肃臭草根系分形维数和分形丰度间的相关性存在差异(p < 0.05), 南坡和北坡甘肃臭草根系分形维数分形丰度之间存在极显著负相关关系(p < 0.01), 东坡和西坡之间存在显著负相关关系(p < 0.05), 甘肃臭草根系分形维数和分形丰度存在着“此消彼长”的权衡关系; 随着坡向由北坡向东坡、西坡、南坡转变, 甘肃臭草根系分形维数和分形丰度回归方程的标准化主轴(SMA)斜率逐渐增大(p < 0.05), 说明在干旱的南坡, 根系所开发利用的相同体积的土壤内, 根系分支更少、更稀疏。不同坡向甘肃臭草合理权衡根系分形维数和分形丰度的资源配置模式, 体现了植物根系构型构建的资源投资权衡机制。     

青藏高原东缘不同海拔波缘风毛菊资源分配及花部特征对种子数目和质量的影响

通过采样调查法和烘干称量法检测了青藏高原东缘不同海拔种群波缘风毛菊(Saussurea undulata)花期与果期的形态特征, 研究了其花期与果期的资源分配, 并对花期花部特征对果期种子特征的影响作出分析。结果表明: 1)波缘风毛菊在花期将更多的资源投入繁殖器官, 而在果期增加了对种子的资源投资; 2)波缘风毛菊花期部分花部特征的变异导致其果期产生的种子随海拔升高数量减少、百粒重增加, 因为波缘风毛菊需要在高寒草甸的极端环境下保证每粒种子的存活能力, 因此采取了产生更少但更大种子的生存策略。