Do Physiological Integration and Soil Heterogeneity Influence the Clonal Growth and Foraging of Schoenoplectus pungens ?
dc.contributor.author | Poor, Allison | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Hershock, Chad | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Goldberg, Deborah E. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Rosella, Kristin | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-11T13:58:28Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-11T13:58:28Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2005-11 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Poor, Allison; Hershock, Chad; Rosella, Kristin; Goldberg, Deborah E.; (2005). "Do Physiological Integration and Soil Heterogeneity Influence the Clonal Growth and Foraging of Schoenoplectus pungens ?." Plant Ecology 181(1): 45-56. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/43887> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1385-0237 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1573-5052 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/43887 | |
dc.description.abstract | Physiological integration and foraging behavior have both been proposed as advantages for clonal growth in heterogeneous environments. We tested three predictions concerning their short- and long-term effects on the growth of the clonal perennial sedge Schoenoplectus pungens (Pers.) Volk. ex Schinz and R. Keller: (1) growth would be greatest for clones with connected rhizomes and on heterogeneous soil, (2) clones would preferentially place biomass in the nutrient-rich patches of a spatially heterogeneous environment, and (3) physiological integration would decrease a clone’s ability to forage. We tested our predictions by growing S. pungens clones for 2 years in an experimental garden with two severing treatments (connected and severed rhizomes) crossed with two soil treatments (homogeneous and heterogeneous nutrient distribution). Severing treatments were only carried out in the first year. As predicted, severing significantly decreased total biomass and per capita growth rate in year one and individual ramet biomass both in year one and the year after severing stopped. This reduction in growth was most likely caused by severing damage, because the total biomass and growth rate in severed treatments did not vary with soil heterogeneity. Contrary to our prediction, total biomass and number of ramets were highest on homogeneous soil at the end of year two, regardless of severing treatment, possibly because ramets in heterogeneous treatments were initially planted in a nutrient-poor patch. Finally, as predicted, S. pungens concentrated ramets in the nutrient-rich patches of the heterogeneous soil treatment. This foraging behavior seemed enhanced by physiological integration in the first year, but any possible enhancement disappeared the year after severing stopped. It seems that over time, individual ramets become independent, and parent ramets respond independently to the conditions of their local microsite when producing offspring, a life-history pattern that may be the rule for clonal species with the spreading “guerrilla” growth form. | en_US |
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dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Life Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Plant Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Cyperaceae | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Fens | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Morphological Plasticity | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Severing | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Peatlands | en_US |
dc.title | Do Physiological Integration and Soil Heterogeneity Influence the Clonal Growth and Foraging of Schoenoplectus pungens ? | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, 48109, Ann Arbor, MI, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, 48109, Ann Arbor, MI, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, 48109, Ann Arbor, MI, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, 48109, Ann Arbor, MI, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/43887/1/11258_2005_Article_2429.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11258-005-2429-y | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Plant Ecology | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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