森林植物耐荫性及其形态和生理适应性研究进展

耐荫性是植物在低光环境下的生存和生长能力,对森林植物群落演替起重要作用,植物对遮荫的适应机制已成为生态学的研究热点.本文综述了森林植物的耐荫性及其在形态和生理方面的适应性,分析了森林植物在生长性状、生物量分配、树冠结构、叶片形态生理、叶片解剖结构、光合参数、碳水化合物分配、水分和养分的利用等方面对遮荫产生的可塑性响应,最后对目前研究存在的问题进行了分析,展望了未来的研究内容和方向.     

Field-based insights to the evolution of specialization: plasticity and fitness across habitats in a specialist/generalist species pair

Factors promoting the evolution of specialists versus generalists have been little studied in ecological context. In a large-scale comparative field experiment, we studied genotypes from naturally evolved populations of a closely related generalist/specialist species pair (Polygonum persicaria and P. hydropiper), reciprocally transplanting replicates of multiple lines into open and partially shaded sites where the species naturally co-occur. We measured relative fitness, individual plasticity, herbivory, and genetic variance expressed in the contrasting light habitats at both low and high densities. Fitness data confirmed that the putative specialist out-performed the generalist in only one environment, the favorable full sun/low-density environment to which it is largely restricted in nature, while the generalist had higher lifetime reproduction in both canopy and dense neighbor shade. The generalist, P. persicaria, also expressed greater adaptive plasticity for biomass allocation and leaf size in shaded conditions than the specialist. We found no evidence that the ecological specialization of P. hydropiper reflects either genetically based fitness trade-offs or maintenance costs of plasticity, two types of genetic constraint often invoked to prevent the evolution of broadly adaptive genotypes. However, the patterns of fitness variance and herbivore damage revealed how release from herbivory in a new range can cause an introduced species to evolve as a specialist in that range, a surprising finding with important implications for invasion biology. Patterns of fitness variance between and within sites are also consistent with a possible role for the process of mutation accumulation (in this case, mutations affecting shade-expressed phenotypes) in the evolution and/or maintenance of specialization in P. hydropiper.     

Evolved dispersal strategies at range margins

Dispersal is a key component of a species''s ecology and will be under different selection pressures in different parts of the range. For example, a long-distance dispersal strategy suitable for continuous habitat at the range core might not be favoured at the margin, where the habitat is sparse. Using a spatially explicit, individual-based, evolutionary simulation model, the dispersal strategies of an organism that has only one dispersal event in its lifetime, such as a plant or sessile animal, are considered. Within the model, removing habitat, increasing habitat turnover, increasing the cost of dispersal, reducing habitat quality or altering vital rates imposes range limits. In most cases, there is a clear change in the dispersal strategies across the range, although increasing death rate towards the margin has little impact on evolved dispersal strategy across the range. Habitat turnover, reduced birth rate and reduced habitat quality all increase evolved dispersal distances at the margin, while increased cost of dispersal and reduced habitat density lead to lower evolved dispersal distances at the margins. As climate change shifts suitable habitat poleward, species ranges will also start to shift, and it will be the dispersal capabilities of marginal populations, rather than core populations, that will influence the rate of range shifting.     

遮阴对黄波罗幼苗的光合特性及光能利用效率的影响

一直以来黄波罗(Phellodendron amurense)被认为是不耐阴树种, 然而引入美国纽约后, 发现它具有一定的耐阴性, 在全光和林下均能更新, 在纽约已经成为生物入侵种。为了探讨黄波罗的耐阴性问题, 通过设置自然光与遮阴(15%自然光)两种光环境, 观测了三年生黄波罗幼苗(遮阴1 a后)光合生理参数、光能利用效率、叶绿素和比叶重的变化。结果表明, 与自然光处理相比, 遮阴处理的黄波罗幼苗最大光合速率、表观量子效率和暗呼吸速率略有下降, 但差异不显著(p>0.05), 光补偿点下降显著(p＜0.05); 同时, 单位面积叶绿素含量无显著差异(p>0.05), 而单位干重叶绿素含量显著升高, 比叶重显著下降, 叶面积显著增大(p＜0.05)。上述结果说明: 遮阴的黄波罗幼苗通过降低光补偿点和暗呼吸速率利用环境中的弱光, 同时通过减小比叶重、增大叶面积和提高叶绿素b相对含量来增强对光的捕获, 使其在弱光时的光能利用效率提高。由此推断, 黄波罗幼苗能适应一定程度的遮阴。     

Are tree trunks habitats or highways? A comparison of oribatid mite assemblages from hoop-pine bark and litter

Abstract Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) are among the most diverse and abundant inhabitants of forest soil and litter, but also have species-rich assemblages on bark and in the canopies of trees. It is unclear whether the trunk of a tree acts simply as a 'highway' for movement of mites into and out of the canopy, or whether the trunk has a distinctive acarofauna. We compare oribatid assemblages from the trunk bark of hoop pine ( Araucaria cunninghamii ) with those from litter collected beneath the same trees. A 1.0 by 0.5 m area of bark was sampled from three trees at each of five sites using a knockdown insecticide. A 1-L sample of leaf litter was collected as close as possible to the base of each sampled tree. Mites were extracted using Tullgren funnels, identified to genus and morphospecies, and counted. Assemblages were almost 100% distinct, with only one oribatid morphospecies ( Pseudotocepheus sp.) collected from both litter and bark. Litter had a higher taxon richness than bark in total and per sample, but oribatids made up a greater percentage of the acarofauna in the bark samples. We had expected that the more consistent physical substrate of bark would be reflected in greater similarity of oribatid faunas on trunks than in litter; however, the opposite proved to be the case. We conclude that hoop-pine trunks are habitats rather than highways for oribatid mites. Based on the observed higher turnover among bark faunas, tree trunks may represent habitat islands whose colonisation by particular oribatid species is more stochastic than that of the more continuous 'sea' of litter.     

光强对黄花菜植株生长效应的研究

研究结果表明,黄花菜植株能够在相对光照强度为１２％－１００％的条件下正常生长发育,且不影响经济产量。随着生境相对光强降低,植株花葶高度增加;单叶面积增大,单株叶片数量减少;总生物量增量减小;地上部分生物量与地下部分生物量的比值升高;光合速率日变化的居民较复杂。