区域尺度上栓皮栎叶性状变异及其与气候因子的关系

叶片在长期进化过程中对环境变化敏感且对气候变化的响应表现出表型可塑性。栓皮栎(Quercus varaibilis)是亚洲大陆地理分布最广泛的树种之一,横跨温带和亚热带地区。本文在中国中东部区域内,选取了25个天然栓皮栎林种群,测量了其叶柄长度、叶片长度、叶片宽度、叶片面积、叶片干重等,并计算了比叶面积和叶形指数(叶片长宽比)等叶性状特征,探讨了区域尺度上叶片性状变异与气候因子关系的格局。结果表明,栓皮栎叶片性状在种群间和种群内均存在显著的变异;叶片宽度与年均温度呈显著的负相关,叶片宽度和叶片面积与纬度均呈显著正相关,说明叶宽及叶片面积相对于其他指标对气候因子的影响变化更敏感,并且在这一区域尺度上温度影响着叶片大小的变异格局。本研究结果为在全球气候变化背景下了解区域尺度上栓皮栎对环境变化的适应与响应机制提供了基础。

Variations of Quercus variabilis leaf traits in relation to climatic factors at regional scale

Leaf is the plant organ which is sensitive to the environmental changes in the process of evolution,and may exhibit phenotypic plasticity as a response to climate change. Quercus variabilis (Oriental oak) is one of the most widely distributed tree species in Asia,stretching from temperate to subtropical zone. With the leaf samples collected from 25 natural Q. variabilis populations across east-central China,this paper quantitatively investigated the leaf physiognomy,including petiole length,leaf length,leaf...