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An intraspecific application of the leaf-height-seed ecology strategy scheme to forest herbs along a latitudinal gradient

  • We measured LHS traits in 41 Anemone nemorosa and 44 Milium effusum populations along a 1900-2300 km latitudinal gradient from N France to N Sweden. We then applied multilevel models to identify the effects of regional (temperature, latitude) and local (soil fertility and acidity, overstorey canopy cover) environmental factors on LHS traits. Both species displayed a significant 4% increase in plant height with every degree northward shift (almost a two-fold plant height difference between the southernmost and northernmost populations). Neither seed mass nor SLA showed a significant latitudinal cline. Temperature had a large effect on the three LHS traits of Anemone. Latitude, canopy cover and soil nutrients were related to the SLA and plant height of Milium. None of the investigated variables appeared to be related to the seed mass of Milium. The variation in LHS traits indicates that the ecological strategy determined by the position of each population in this three-factor triangle is not constant along the latitudinal gradient.We measured LHS traits in 41 Anemone nemorosa and 44 Milium effusum populations along a 1900-2300 km latitudinal gradient from N France to N Sweden. We then applied multilevel models to identify the effects of regional (temperature, latitude) and local (soil fertility and acidity, overstorey canopy cover) environmental factors on LHS traits. Both species displayed a significant 4% increase in plant height with every degree northward shift (almost a two-fold plant height difference between the southernmost and northernmost populations). Neither seed mass nor SLA showed a significant latitudinal cline. Temperature had a large effect on the three LHS traits of Anemone. Latitude, canopy cover and soil nutrients were related to the SLA and plant height of Milium. None of the investigated variables appeared to be related to the seed mass of Milium. The variation in LHS traits indicates that the ecological strategy determined by the position of each population in this three-factor triangle is not constant along the latitudinal gradient. The significant increase in plant height suggests greater competitive abilities for both species in the northernmost populations. We also found that the studied environmental factors affected the LHS traits of the two species on various scales: spring-flowering Anemone was affected more by temperature, whereas early-summer flowering Milium was affected more by local and other latitude-related factors. Finally, previously reported cross-species correlations between LHS traits and latitude were generally unsupported by our within-species approach.show moreshow less

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Author details:Pieter De Frenne, Bente J. Graae, Annette Kolb, Anna Shevtsova, Lander Baeten, Jörg Brunet, Olivier Chabrerie, Sara A. O. Cousins, Guillaume Decocq, Rob Dhondt, Martin DiekmannORCiD, Robert Gruwez, Thilo HeinkenORCiD, Martin Hermy, Mathias Oster, Robert Saguez, Sharon Stanton, Wesley Tack, Margot Vanhellemont, Kris Verheyen
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06399.x
ISSN:0906-7590
Title of parent work (English):Ecography : pattern and diversity in ecology ; research papers forum
Publisher:Wiley-Blackwell
Place of publishing:Malden
Publication type:Article
Language:English
Year of first publication:2011
Publication year:2011
Release date:2017/03/26
Volume:34
Issue:1
Number of pages:9
First page:132
Last Page:140
Funding institution:Petra and Karl Erik Hedborg Foundation; EU [506004]; FWO; Inst. for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders (IWT-Vlaanderen); Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Organizational units:Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Biochemie und Biologie
Peer review:Referiert
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