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Variation and association of leaf traits for desert plants in the arid area, northwest China
Characterizing variation and association of plant traits is critical for understanding plant adaptation strategies and community assembly mechanisms. However, little is known about the leaf trait variations of desert plants and their association with different life forms. We used principal component...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10037433/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36969926 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9946 |
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author | Wang, Hongyong Yang, Jie Xie, Tingting Ma, Li Niu, Furong He, Cai Shan, Lishan |
author_facet | Wang, Hongyong Yang, Jie Xie, Tingting Ma, Li Niu, Furong He, Cai Shan, Lishan |
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description | Characterizing variation and association of plant traits is critical for understanding plant adaptation strategies and community assembly mechanisms. However, little is known about the leaf trait variations of desert plants and their association with different life forms. We used principal component analysis, Pearson's correlation, phylogenetic independent contrasts, linear mixed model, and variance decomposition to explore the variation and association of 10 leaf traits in 22 desert plants in the arid area of northwest China. We found that: (1) the contribution of interspecific variation to the overall variation was greater than the intraspecific variation of all the studied leaf traits; (2) intraspecific and interspecific variation in leaf traits differed among life forms. Some leaf traits, such as tissue density of shrubs and specific leaf area of herbs, exhibited greater intraspecific than interspecific variation, while other traits exhibited the inverse; (3) desert shrubs corroborate the leaf economic spectrum hypothesis and had a fast acquisitive resource strategy, but herbs may not conform to this hypothesis; (4) there were trade‐offs between leaf traits, which were mediated by phylogeny. Overall, our results suggest that interspecific variation of leaf traits significantly contributes to the total leaf traits variation in desert plants. However, intraspecific variation should not be overlooked. There are contrasts in the resource acquisition strategies between plants life forms. Our results support understanding of the mechanisms underlying community assembly in arid regions and suggest that future works may focus on the variation and association of plant traits at both intra‐ and interspecific scales. |
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spelling | pubmed-100374332023-03-25 Variation and association of leaf traits for desert plants in the arid area, northwest China Wang, Hongyong Yang, Jie Xie, Tingting Ma, Li Niu, Furong He, Cai Shan, Lishan Ecol Evol Research Articles Characterizing variation and association of plant traits is critical for understanding plant adaptation strategies and community assembly mechanisms. However, little is known about the leaf trait variations of desert plants and their association with different life forms. We used principal component analysis, Pearson's correlation, phylogenetic independent contrasts, linear mixed model, and variance decomposition to explore the variation and association of 10 leaf traits in 22 desert plants in the arid area of northwest China. We found that: (1) the contribution of interspecific variation to the overall variation was greater than the intraspecific variation of all the studied leaf traits; (2) intraspecific and interspecific variation in leaf traits differed among life forms. Some leaf traits, such as tissue density of shrubs and specific leaf area of herbs, exhibited greater intraspecific than interspecific variation, while other traits exhibited the inverse; (3) desert shrubs corroborate the leaf economic spectrum hypothesis and had a fast acquisitive resource strategy, but herbs may not conform to this hypothesis; (4) there were trade‐offs between leaf traits, which were mediated by phylogeny. Overall, our results suggest that interspecific variation of leaf traits significantly contributes to the total leaf traits variation in desert plants. However, intraspecific variation should not be overlooked. There are contrasts in the resource acquisition strategies between plants life forms. Our results support understanding of the mechanisms underlying community assembly in arid regions and suggest that future works may focus on the variation and association of plant traits at both intra‐ and interspecific scales. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10037433/ /pubmed/36969926 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9946 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Articles Wang, Hongyong Yang, Jie Xie, Tingting Ma, Li Niu, Furong He, Cai Shan, Lishan Variation and association of leaf traits for desert plants in the arid area, northwest China |
title | Variation and association of leaf traits for desert plants in the arid area, northwest China |
title_full | Variation and association of leaf traits for desert plants in the arid area, northwest China |
title_fullStr | Variation and association of leaf traits for desert plants in the arid area, northwest China |
title_full_unstemmed | Variation and association of leaf traits for desert plants in the arid area, northwest China |
title_short | Variation and association of leaf traits for desert plants in the arid area, northwest China |
title_sort | variation and association of leaf traits for desert plants in the arid area, northwest china |
topic | Research Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10037433/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36969926 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9946 |
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