Clonality-Climate Relationships along Latitudinal Gradient across China: Adaptation of Clonality to Environments

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094009

	Clonality-Climate Relationships along Latitudinal Gradient across China: Adaptation of Clonality to Environments
	Ye, Duo 3; Hu, Yukun 3; Song, Minghua 2; Pan, Xu 3; Xie, Xiufang 3; Liu, Guofang ; Ye, Xuehua ; Dong, Ming 1
	2014
发表期刊	PLOS ONE
ISSN	1932-6203
卷号	9 期号:4
摘要	Plant clonality, the ability of a plant species to reproduce itself vegetatively through ramets (shoot-root units), occurs in many plant species and is considered to be more frequent in cold or wet environments. However, a deeper understanding on the clonality-climate relationships along large geographic gradients is still scarce. In this study we revealed the clonality-climate relationships along latitudinal gradient of entire China spanning from tropics to temperate zones using clonality data for 4015 vascular plant species in 545 terrestrial communities. Structural equation modeling (SEM) showed that, in general, the preponderance of clonality increased along the latitudinal gradient towards cold, dry or very wet environments. However, the distribution of clonality in China was significantly but only weakly correlated with latitude and four climatic factors (mean annual temperature, temperature seasonality, mean annual precipitation, precipitation seasonality). Clonality of woody and herbaceous species had opposite responses to climatic variables. More precisely, woody clonality showed higher frequency in wet or climatically stable environments, while herbaceous clonality preferred cold, dry or climatically instable environments. Unexplained variation in clonality may be owed to the influences of other environmental conditions and to different clonal strategies and underlying traits adopted by different growth forms and phylogenetic lineages. Therefore, in-depth research in terms of more detailed clonal growth form, phylogeny and additional environmental variables are encouraged to further understand plant clonality response to climatic and/or edaphic conditions.
学科领域	Multidisciplinary Sciences
DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0094009
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS关键词	PLANT-SPECIES DIVERSITY ; GLOBAL PATTERNS ; LIFE ; TRAITS ; ECOLOGY ; STRESS ; LADAKH
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
WOS记录号	WOS:000334159800085
出版者	PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
文献子类	Article
出版地	SAN FRANCISCO
资助机构	NSFC [31261120580, 39825106, 31100333] ; Innovative R & D grant of Hangzhou Normal University [PD12002002004001]
作者邮箱	liugf@ibcas.ac.cn ; dongmingchina@126.com
作品OA属性	Green Published, Green Submitted, gold
引用统计	被引频次：40[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.ibcas.ac.cn/handle/2S10CLM1/27355
专题	植被与环境变化国家重点实验室
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Bot, State Key Lab Vegetat & Environm Change, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.Hangzhou Normal Univ, Coll Life & Environm Sci, Key Lab Hangzhou City Ecosyst Protect & Restorat, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Key Lab Ecosyst Network Observat & Modeling, Beijing, Peoples R China 4.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ye, Duo,Hu, Yukun,Song, Minghua,et al. Clonality-Climate Relationships along Latitudinal Gradient across China: Adaptation of Clonality to Environments[J]. PLOS ONE,2014,9(4).
APA	Ye, Duo.,Hu, Yukun.,Song, Minghua.,Pan, Xu.,Xie, Xiufang.,...&Dong, Ming.(2014).Clonality-Climate Relationships along Latitudinal Gradient across China: Adaptation of Clonality to Environments.PLOS ONE,9(4).
MLA	Ye, Duo,et al."Clonality-Climate Relationships along Latitudinal Gradient across China: Adaptation of Clonality to Environments".PLOS ONE 9.4(2014).

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