Interspecific variations in responses of Festuca rubra and Trifolium pratense to a severe clipping under environmental changes
Autor: | Junyan Zhang, Genwei Cheng, Fei-Hai Yu, Norbert Kräuchi, Mai-He Li |
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Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Abiotic component
Biomass (ecology) Biotic component Environmental change Ecology media_common.quotation_subject food and beverages Cell Biology Plant Science Interspecific competition Biology biology.organism_classification Biochemistry Competition (biology) Agronomy Genetics Animal Science and Zoology sense organs Festuca rubra Monoculture skin and connective tissue diseases Molecular Biology Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics media_common |
Zdroj: | Biologia. 64:292-298 |
ISSN: | 1336-9563 0006-3088 |
DOI: | 10.2478/s11756-009-0058-y |
Popis: | Understanding and predicting possible responses of grassland species to global change is of important meaning for adapting grassland management to a changed and changing environment. A laboratory clipping experiment was conducted to examine the interspecific responses in an ecological context of competition and environmental changes. Festuca rubra and Trifolium pratense, either in monoculture or two- and three-species mixtures, were grown in three environmental combinations (ambient and increased temperature, repetitive N supply, and simulated acid rain), respectively. After a growth time of three months, plants were clipped at the height of 1.0 cm above soil surface. Plant height and aboveground biomass prior clipping, and survival rate and regrowth (height and biomass) after clipping were analyzed. F. rubra and T. pratense responded differently in compensatory growth and competition intensity to environmental change and co-existing species. The differences in their physiological and ecological traits may account for species-dependent responses. The present study emphasizes that predicting the plant assemblage response in the face of global change requires in understanding the integrating effects of abiotic and biotic factors. |
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