Effects of arthropod inquilines on growth and reproductive effort among metacommunities of the purple pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea var. montana)

Autor: Elise Powell, Rebecca E. Hale, Mara L. Alexander, Leila Beikmohamadi
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
0106 biological sciences
Physiology
Biodiversity
Population genetics
Plant Science
Sarracenia purpurea
01 natural sciences
Pitcher plant
Medicine and Health Sciences
Flowering Plants
Mites
Multidisciplinary
Ecology
Plant Anatomy
Reproduction
food and beverages
Eukaryota
Phytotelma
Plants
Nitrogen Cycle
Biota
Sarraceniaceae
Larva
Medicine
Research Article
Ecological Metrics
Arthropoda
Science
Flowers
Biology
010603 evolutionary biology
Chironomidae
Copepoda
Genetics
Animals
Burrowing
Plant Dispersal
Symbiosis
Arthropods
Carnivorous Plants
Evolutionary Biology
Community
Population Biology
Biological Locomotion
fungi
Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Organisms
Species diversity
Biology and Life Sciences
Species Diversity
biology.organism_classification
Invertebrates
Plant Leaves
Culicidae
Population Genetics
010606 plant biology & botany
Zdroj: PLoS ONE
PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 5, p e0232835 (2020)
ISSN: 1932-6203
Popis: Many plant species harbor communities of symbionts that release nutrients used by their host plants. However, the importance of these nutrients to plant growth and reproductive effort is not well understood. Here, we evaluate the relationship between the communities that colonize pitcher plant phytotelmata and the pitcher plants' vegetative growth and flower production to better understand the symbiotic role played by phytotelma communities. We focus on the mountain variety purple pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea var. montana), which occurs in small and isolated populations in Western North Carolina. We found that greater symbiont community diversity is associated with higher flower production the following season. We then examined geographic variation in communities and found that smaller plant populations supported less diverse symbiont communities. We relate our observations to patterns of community diversity predicted by community ecology theory.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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