孑遗落叶阔叶树种微地形空间分异格局及共存机制研究概述

漫长历史时期的气候条件对生物多样性的现代分布格局产生了深远影响,分析以孑遗植物为优势种群落的分布格局、种群更新类型与适应策略,可揭示气候变化下孑遗植物的残存机制.本文以孑遗植物的群落生态学研究为视角,在综述孑遗落叶阔叶树种的定义、分布与生境特征、种间关系、种群更新与群落维持、植物性状与生境响应的基础上,提出在区域孑遗植物多样性研究中,应从微地形-植被关系入手,应用微地形单元的分类体系与手法,以微地形单元上斑块状植物群落为对象,分析其生境特征、种群结构、群落动态以及植物性状,揭示微地形梯度孑遗植物群落的分异格局,阐明区域内多种孑遗落叶阔叶树种的共存机制;结合植物群落谱系结构分析,进一步阐明孑遗植物群落的残存机制,有助于丰富我国亚热带山地植物多样性研究及保护生态学理论.     

东灵山植物群落生活型谱的比较研究

应用由丹麦学者Ｒａｕｎｋｉａｅｒ提出的生活型分类系统,研究了北京东灵山植物群落的生活型,并编制了主要植物群落类型的生活型谱。同时,用主成分分析（ＰＣＡ）作为排序的方法和系统聚类中的离差平方和法与类平均法,对东灵山植物群落的生活型谱进行了排序和分类。并用双重筛选逐步回归的方法分析了环境（气候和土壤）因子与植物群落生活型谱梯度的关系,建立了相应的数学模型。研究结果表明：东灵山地区植物群落生活型谱的特征符合暖温带植物生活型谱的基本特点,地面芽植物占的比例最大。但不同植物群落因所存在的生境有差异,也表现出各自的谱特征。排序的结果与用植物种类成分进行的ＤＣＡ 排序结果吻合度较好,排序的环境梯度特征也十分明显。研究结果还表明：地下芽和中高位芽对于温度梯度的反应比较灵敏;其次是小高位芽和一年生植物;对于水分梯度的变化,则以地上芽和矮高位芽植物的反应比较强烈和敏感。温带植被生活型谱主要特征的地面芽植物在本地区表现稳定,不随各植物群落和水热梯度发生大的波动,显示出地带性的强大约束力。所建立的海拔梯度和群落类型与生活谱的统计数学模型,对于中高位芽、矮高位芽和地下芽植物的相关较好,估测的精度高,而对其它几种生活型的估测较差     

江西省水生维管束植物群落与环境因子关系的初步研究

植物群落与环境因子关系的研究是植物生态学的一个中心议题[1],主要通过直接梯度分析和间接梯度分析的方法进行定量描述和解释。排序是梯度分析的一个主要技术[2 ],如极点排序 (ＰＯ)、相互平均法 (ＲＡ)、主分量分析 (ＰＣＡ)、典范分析 (ＣＣＡ)等排序技术已被广泛应用于植被的梯度分析中[1,3]。对于水生维管束植物的研究已有不少报道 ,其中有许多研究者注意到了水环境 (如水深、底质、水化学性质、流速等 )对水生维管束植物生态分布的影响[4,5],但缺乏对水生维管束植物与水环境关系的数量分析研究。据此 ,作者通过对水生维管束植物群落及…     

樟村坪磷矿废弃地植物群落的形成与演替

通过分析湖北省宜昌县樟村坪磷矿废弃地植被的组成、空间结构、各成分综合优势比其群集度的变化以及植物分布与环境因子的相关性等问题,探讨了该地植被恢复过程中植物群落形成与演替的一般规律。结果表明,废弃地6种演替植物群落的形成是先锋植物种类入侵、定居、群聚和竞争的结果,在植物群落形成与演替的过程中,各种类成分的种群数量及综合优势比呈动态变化,废弃地植物群落形成与演替的过程按演替序列可分为3个阶段。植物群落形成与演替还与环境因子有关,废弃地高浓度的土壤效磷是影响植物生长与分布的胁迫因子。伴随着群落的形成与演替,植物群落的物种多样性呈逐渐增加的趋势。     

青海湖湖盆南岸植物群落的生态优势度与海拔梯度

利用Ｓｉｍｐｓｏｎ优势度指标对青海湖湖贫南岸的植物群落优势度进行了测定,并讨论了群落生态优势与海拔梯度之间的相互关系。结果表明,海拔梯度是通过影响群落内和中群组成影响群落的生态优势度,群落生态优势度与群落内植物种群数呈相关,群落内种群越丰富,群落生态优势度就越小,反之越大。     

黄河三角洲芦苇种群特征对水深环境梯度的响应

通过野外调查芦苇种群特征及获取的监测数据,应用多元统计法、函数极值法以及β多样性指数测度法,对黄河三角洲芦苇种群在不同环境梯度（以水深为主）条件下的生物生态学特征及β多样性进行了分析.（1）通过离差平方和聚类分析方法,将研究区的10个调查样地划分为6个类型.随水深环境梯度变化,各样地群落优势植物也发生相应变化.（2）芦苇的平均高度和平均茎粗与平均水深呈显著相关.芦苇平均密度和平均盖度值与平均水深拟合曲线的变化呈非线性变化趋势.在平均水深为0.3m时,芦苇平均密度和平均盖度出现明显的峰,随水深变化向峰两侧递减,而芦苇平均株高和平均茎粗随水深增加呈递葺增趋势.（3）通过β多样性分析,黄河三角洲存在明显的环境梯度变化,随着水深的变化,物种间存在明显的替代关系.通过离差平方和聚类分析后得出的各相邻样地（水深段）间的Sorensen指数值均大于不相邻样地（水深段）间的值.水生环境植物群落间的相似性程度较大,而旱生环境植物群落间相似性程度较小.     

延河流域植物群落功能性状对环境梯度的响应

研究群落水平上的植物功能性状特征及其随环境梯度的变化规律,对认识不同环境梯度下植物群落的形成及其对环境的适应机制具有重要意义。以延河流域不同环境梯度下的稳定的自然植物群落为对象,测量了植物群落组成物种的叶厚度、比叶面积、叶组织密度、比根长、根组织密度、单位质量叶氮含量、单位质量根氮含量、种子质量、种子体积等9个性状,然后以物种重要值为基础加权平均得到各个性状在群落水平上的平均值(即群落性状值);以现有的环境因子栅格图为基础,利用ArcGIS提出各群落对应的环境因子值,同时测定各个群落的土壤水分,分析群落各性状值与环境因子的关系,并建立关系模型。结果表明:在群落水平上,9个植物功能性状分别与13个环境因子存在不同程度的相关性,同时这9个植物功能性状对8个环境因子梯度(土壤水分、年4-10月平均气温、年7-9月总降雨量、降雨季节变化、年平均降雨量、年平均蒸发量、坡度、坡向)的响应特征较好,不同植物功能性状间具有较好相关性。群落水平上植物功能性状及其组合随环境梯度的规律性变化,反映了延河流域植被群落构建过程中环境对功能性状的筛选效应。该研究结果对该区的植被恢复重建的物种选择及植被布局规划具有重要的实践意义。     

呼伦贝尔草地植物群落与土壤化学计量学特征沿经度梯度变化

植物化学计量学特征在大尺度上主要受纬度和经度两个因素影响。纬度梯度上温度因子变化对植物化学计量特征的影响已有大量研究,但是关于经度梯度上降雨因子变化对植物化学计量特征影响的研究却较少。选取呼伦贝尔草原,研究经度梯度上植物化学计量特征和土壤养分指标的变化规律,从经度梯度和养分供给两方面分析植物群落化学计量特征的变化规律,研究结果如下:1)植物群落叶片C含量变化范围为440.76—452.72 mg/g,N含量变化范围为17.79—30.88 mg/g,P含量变化范围为1.31—1.71 mg/g;群落叶片C含量、C/N随经度升高显著增加;群落叶片N含量随经度升高显著下降;植物群落P含量也呈下降趋势,但是关系不显著;植物群落C、N和P元素总量随着经度升高而显著增加。2)0—10 cm土壤全碳、全氮、全磷、有机碳受降雨量变化和植物群落元素总量影响,随着经度梯度升高而增加;但土壤铵态氮、硝态氮在经度梯度上没有表现出规律性的变化趋势。3)土壤全碳、有机碳、全氮、全磷和速效磷与植物群落叶片C、N和P含量没有显著相关关系,但与植物群落C、N和P元素总量呈显著正相关关系。该区土壤有效磷含量(8.13 mg/kg)高于全球平均值(7.65 mg/kg),但植物群落叶片磷含量平均值(1.5 mg/g)低于全球平均值(1.77 mg/g)。通过研究结果推测:植物通过对气候条件的长期适应,群落水平C、N和P含量沿经度梯度形成一定的分布格局;降雨量影响植物群落元素积累的总量,从而与土壤养分含量呈显著正相关关系;植物叶片P含量低的原因并非是由于土壤中磷的供给不足所致,而是植物对环境长期适应形成的策略。     

水分梯度下荒漠植物多样性与稳定性对土壤因子的响应

荒漠生态系统多样性的研究对维持荒漠区群落稳定性有着重要意义。以艾比湖流域荒漠植物群落为研究对象,基于野外样方调查数据及实验分析,探讨不同水分梯度下植物多样性与稳定性的变化规律及土壤因子对二者的影响。结果表明:(1)随土壤水分含量下降,Shannon-Wiener多样性指数(H)、Simpson多样性指数(D)、Pielou均匀度指数(J)、Margalef丰富度指数(R)和种群密度稳定性(ICV)指数均呈下降趋势,且当土壤含水量低于4.65%时,荒漠植物多样性与群落稳定性总体显著降低(P<0.05);(2)不同水分梯度下影响艾比湖流域植物多样性的土壤因子具有差异性,高水梯度为硝态氮与有机质,中水梯度下影响植物多样性的因子为pH,低水梯度为全氮和有机质;(3)仅在环境适宜的情况下,土壤因子(土壤含盐量与有机质)才能对群落稳定性产生显著影响(P<0.01);(4)三种梯度下,物种多样性均对群落稳定性有显著性影响(P<0.001),植物多样性与群落稳定性存在正相关关系。     

藏北高原自东向西样带典型植物群落中矮嵩草与紫花针茅小尺度空间格局变化

植物群落中物种的小尺度空间格局,如聚集、随机和扩散分布,因环境条件而改变,反映了植物在不同环境条件下的生态适应策略。藏北高原区自东向西逐渐由亚寒带半湿润区向温带干旱区过渡,群落内物种多样性和物种组成发生了极大的改变。2012年7—8月份,在藏北高原自东向西选择了8个不同地区的典型草原植物群落进行样方调查,分析了植物群落物种组成、物种多样性以及矮嵩草(Kobresia humilis)和紫花针茅(Stipa purpurea)两个种群的小尺度空间格局。结果显示:物种丰富度和矮嵩草的相对盖度均与年均降水量呈显著正相关;自东向西,矮嵩草种群则由扩散向随机格局转变,而紫花针茅种群由随机向扩散转变;在年均降水量最低的地区两个种群之间呈空间隔离关系。矮嵩草和紫花针茅种内及种间小尺度空间格局变化是在藏北高原自东向西样带梯度上影响两者共存的重要机制。     

Evolutionary ecology of plant-microbe interactions: soil microbial structure alters selection on plant traits

? Below-ground microbial communities influence plant diversity, plant productivity, and plant community composition. Given these strong ecological effects, are interactions with below-ground microbes also important for understanding natural selection on plant traits? ? Here, we manipulated below-ground microbial communities and the soil moisture environment on replicated populations of Brassica rapa to examine how microbial community structure influences selection on plant traits and mediates plant responses to abiotic environmental stress. ? In soils with experimentally simplified microbial communities, plants were smaller, had reduced chlorophyll content, produced fewer flowers, and were less fecund when compared with plant populations grown in association with more complex soil microbial communities. Selection on plant growth and phenological traits also was stronger when plants were grown in simplified, less diverse soil microbial communities, and these effects typically were consistent across soil moisture treatments. ? Our results suggest that microbial community structure affects patterns of natural selection on plant traits. Thus, the below-ground microbial community can influence evolutionary processes, just as recent studies have demonstrated that microbial diversity can influence plant community and ecosystem processes.     

Intraspecific and intergenerational differences in plant–soil feedbacks

Interactions between plant and soil communities are known to play an integral role in shaping ecosystems. Plants influence the composition of soil communities and soil communities in turn influence plant performance. Such a plant–soil feedback may incur selection pressure on plants and the associating soil community. However, the evolutionary consequences of these above–belowground feedback interactions remain largely speculative. Here we assess whether plant–soil feedback effects differ between intraspecific plant populations and between generations within the same plant population. We used two populations of Trifolium pratense and assessed their performance when grown in association with their home versus away soil biota. Both populations were colonized by distinct microbial communities and performed better with their own home soil communities than with the soil community from the other intraspecific population, demonstrating intraspecific positive feedback effects of home soil. In one of the two populations, we found that plant performance and the root associated microbiota community differed between parental and progeny plants when inoculated with their own home soil. Differences in root associated community characteristics could explain more than 80% of the variation in performance among the progeny and parental plants. Our results highlight that intraspecific differences in both plant and associated soil communities shape plant–soil feedback effects, and consequently indicate that plant–soil feedback can influence the direction of selection between intraspecific plant populations.     

退化草地阿尔泰针茅与狼毒种群的小尺度种间空间关联

采用草地群落学调查与点格局分析方法,在祁连山北坡选择4种退化高寒草地群落,分析了阿尔泰针茅(Stipa krylovii)与狼毒(Stellera chamaejasme)种群的大小结构、斑块特征和种间关联关系。结果表明:随天然草地退化过程延续,阿尔泰针茅由大株丛结构演变为小株丛结构,种群密度和领地面积减小、空斑面积增大、领地密度先增大后减小,狼毒种群的株丛结构和斑块特征发生了相反的变化趋势;不同退化草地阿尔泰针茅和狼毒种群的空间关联呈现负关联、正关联和不关联规律;在未退化草地和轻度退化草地、中度退化草地,阿尔泰针茅与狼毒的关联性分别由0-14 cm、0-51 cm尺度上的负相关和0-85 cm尺度上的不相关,转变为14-100 cm、51-100 cm尺度上的不相关和86-100 cm尺度上的正相关。物种个体大小结构变化,以及狼毒种群的斑块吞并、合并和阿尔泰针茅种群的斑块破碎、被分割过程,既是物种关联性发生尺度转换的先决条件,又是引起草地群落中物种地位与作用改变的关键因素。     

Morphological variability of Carex spicata Huds. utricles among plant communities

Differentiation in the size and number of seeds among populations or particular individuals of a given species may depend on genetic features and environmental conditions. The objective of our study was to answer two questions: whether any differences exist in the size and shape of utricles among Carex spicata populations growing in several plant communities and whether the hypothesized differences remain constant in ‘common garden’ conditions (i.e. if the sedges grown in different plant communities are evolving distinctly separate ecotypes). We studied utricle morphological traits (projected area, width, length, W/L ratio and projected perimeter) and number of utricles per spike collected from plants grown in five different plant communities (natural sites) and from plants transferred to common garden conditions. C. spicata utricles showed significant variability of morphological traits that depended on the plant community of origin. Among five plant communities, the largest utricles were found in Agropyron repens–Urtica dioica and Convolvulo arvensis–Agropyretum repentis communities, while the smallest ones were in plants from the Lolio-Plantaginetum community. The similarity of the analyzed populations regarding sedge utricle traits corresponded to the similarity of plant communities where the populations had grown. Moreover, the differences in utricle traits collected from natural conditions remained stable in common garden conditions. This indicated that differences in traits among utricles had a physiological dependence on different biotope conditions or different interspecific interactions prevailing in the particular plant communities. The relationship between the similarities in the diaspores of the populations studied and the similarities in the ecological conditions of the communities may also indicate that the variability of utricles is important for evolution and adaptation.The results support the hypothesis that C. spicata populations in different communities are producing separate ecotypes, i.e. specific species forms with genetically fixed traits adapted to narrowly determined habitat conditions.     

Plant–microbe interactions at multiple scales across a high-elevation landscape

Here we review the numerous studies of plant–microbe interactions conducted at the Niwot Ridge LTER site in Colorado, USA. By synthesising work at scales ranging from the rhizosphere to the landscape, we offer a mechanistic view of how these interactions are essential to understanding the spatial and temporal structuring of plant and microbial communities across this diverse and changing landscape. These new insights are also important for making predictions about how both plant and microbial communities and populations will respond to future changes in this environment, especially with regard to the potential uphill movement of plants and microbes in response to climate change and nitrogen deposition. We predict that the uphill movement of plants and microbes will be especially apparent, and have the most impact, in areas of the alpine that are now mostly plant free. These areas are currently undergoing a shift from a microbe-dominated ecosystem to one where microbe–plant interactions will play a critical role in reducing nutrient losses to downstream ecosystems.     

Genetic diversity of Ranunculus acris L. (Ranunculaceae) populations in relation to species diversity and habitat type in grassland communities

Correlates between genetic diversity at intra- and interpopulation levels and the species diversity in plant communities are rarely investigated. Such correlates may give insights into the effect of local selective forces across different communities on the genetic diversity of local plant populations. This study has employed amplified fragment length polymorphism to assess the genetic diversity within and between 10 populations of Ranunculus acris in relation to the species diversity (richness and evenness) of grassland communities of two different habitat types, 'seminatural' and 'agriculturally improved', located in central Germany. Within-population genetic diversity estimated by Nei's unbiased gene diversity (HE) was high (0.258-0.334), and was not correlated with species richness (Pearson's r = -0.17; P = 0.64) or species evenness (Pearson's r = 0.15; P = 0.68) of the plant communities. However, the genetic differentiation between R. acris populations was significantly correlated with the difference in species evenness (Mantel's r = 0.62, P = 0.02), but not with difference in species richness of plant communities (r = -0.17, P = 0.22). Moreover, we also found that populations of R. acris from the 'seminatural' habitat were genetically different (amova, P < 0.05) from those in 'agriculturally improved' habitats, suggesting that gene flow between these habitat types is limited. The results reported in this study may indicate that habitat characteristics influence the genetic diversity of plant species.     

Genetic diversity of Potamogeton pectinatus L. in relation to species diversity in a pair of lakes of contrasting trophic levels

Understanding the correlation between genetic diversity and species diversity in freshwater communities is important to elucidate the influences of local selective forces on the genetic diversity of local aquatic plant populations across different communities. This study employed amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) to assess the genetic diversity of Potamogeton pectinatus L. populations between two sister-lakes with contrasting trophic levels, eutrophic and oligotrophic, in the Yunnan Plateau in southwest of China. The results showed high genetic differentiation between eutrophic lake and oligotrophic lake. The genetic distances between P. pectinatus populations were significantly correlated with the species evenness, but not with difference in species richness of aquatic plant communities. The results underpinned that genetic diversity at inter-population levels and local species diversity in plant communities are positively correlated. In addition, our results also suggested that habitat types might play an important role in the genetic diversity of the P. pectinatus populations between these two lakes.     

Functional roles of remnant plant populations in communities and ecosystems

A hypothesis is suggested for functional roles of remnant plant populations in communities and ecosystems. A remnant population is capable of persistence during extended time periods, despite a negative population growth rate, due to long‐lived life stages and life‐cycles, including loops that allow population persistence without completion of the whole life cycle. A list of critera is suggested to help identification of remnant plant populations. Several community and ecosystem features may result from the presence of remnant plant populations. Apart from increasing community and ecosystem resilience just by being present, remnant populations may contribute to resilience through enhancing colonization by other plant species, by providing a persistent habitat for assemblages of animals and microorganisms, and by reducing variation in nutrient cycling. It is suggested that the common ability of plants to develop remnant populations is a contributing factor to ecosystem stability. Remnant populations are important for the capacity of ecosystems to cope with the present‐day impact caused by human society, and their occurrence should be recognized in surveys of threatened plant species and communities.     

Ecosystem engineers maintain a rare species of butterfly and increase plant diversity

We evaluated whether ecosystem engineers can accomplish two conservation goals simultaneously: (1) indirectly maintain populations of an endangered animal through habitat modification and (2) increase riparian plant diversity. We tested for effects of a prominent ecosystem engineer, the beaver Castor canadensis, on populations of St. Francis' satyr butterfly Neonympha mitchellii francisci and plant species richness and composition. We performed our test by surveying riparian vegetation communities in all stages of beaver‐influenced wetland succession. We found that beavers created wetland habitats that supported plant species not found elsewhere in riparian zones and increased plant species diversity across the landscape by creating a novel combination of patch types. Our results confirmed what others have found about engineering effects on plant diversity, but these results further demonstrated a case where ecosystem engineers indirectly maintain populations of rare animals by modifying the composition and diversity of plant communities within wetlands. Our research demonstrates how an ecosystem engineer can influence habitat availability and composition of plant communities important for an endangered insect, and maintain overall plant species diversity by increasing habitat heterogeneity.     

干旱半干旱荒漠地区一年生植物研究综述

1年生植物是干旱半干旱地区植被的重要组成部分,并以其独有的植物特性成为许多植物生态学关键问题研究的最佳试验材料。本文综述了干旱半干旱地区1年生植物的种子萌发对策、幼苗对环境的适应机制、种子传播和种子库等方面的研究成果,并探讨了影响1年生植物种群、群落组成和动态的生物与非生物因素。基于1年生植物类群在荒漠植被系统中重要的生态功能,有关1年生植物的研究成果将有利于荒漠生态系统的保护和恢复、资源的合理利用以及区域的可持续发展。