Interactions between mountain birch seedlings from differentiated populations in contrasting environments of subarctic Russia

Plant Ecology

Volumn 200, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 167-177

  Eränen, Janne K ^a   Kozlov, Mikhail V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Betula pubescens; Competition; Facilitation; Local adaptation; Phenotypic plasticity; Stress gradient hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DICOTYLEDON; FACILITATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SEEDLING;

BETULA PUBESCENS; BETULA PUBESCENS SUBSP. TORTUOSA;

EID: 58149201297     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-008-9441-y     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Aas B, Faarlund T (2001) The holocene history of the Nordic mountain birch belt. In: Wielgolaski FE (ed) Nordic mountain birch ecosystems. The Parthenon Publishing Group, New York, USA, pp 5-22
2. Allison PD (1995) Survival analysis using the SAS system: A practical guide. SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA
3. Anisimov OA, Vaughan DG, Callaghan TV, et al. (2007) Polar regions (Arctic and Antarctic). In: Parry ML, Canziani OF, Palutikof JP et al. (eds) Climate change 2007: impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. Contribution of working group II to the fourth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp 653-685
4. C Armas FI Pugnaire 2005 Plant interactions govern population dynamics in a semi-arid plant community J Ecol 93 978 989 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2005.01033.x
5. Berlyand ME (1991) Annual report of ambient air pollution in cities and industrial centres of Soviet Union. Volume "emission of pollutants". Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory, St. Petersburg, Russia (in Russian)
6. MD Bertness R Callaway 1994 Positive interactions in communities Trends Ecol Evol 9 191 193 10.1016/0169-5347(94)90088-4
7. RW Brooker FT Maestre RM Callaway 2008 Facilitation in plant communities: The past, the present, and the future J Ecol 96 18 34
8. SG Byars W Papst AA Hoffmann 2007 Local adaptation and cogradient selection in the alpine plant, Poa hiemata, along a narrow altitudinal gradient Evolution Int J Org Evolution 61 2925 2941 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00248.x
9. Callaway RM (2007) Positive interactions and interdependence in plant communities. Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands
10. RM Callaway RW Brooker P Choler 2002 Positive interactions among alpine plants increase with stress Nature 417 844 848 10.1038/nature00812
11. BB Casper 1996 Demographic consequences of drought in the herbaceous perennial Cryptantha flava: Effects of density, associations with shrubs, and plant size Oecologia 106 144 152 10.1007/BF00328593
12. P Choler R Michalet RM Callaway 2001 Facilitation and competition on gradients in alpine plant communities Ecology 82 3295 3308
13. DR Cox 1972 Regression models and life-tables J R Stat Soc B Stat Methodol 34 187 220
14. IA Dickie SA Schnitzer PB Reich 2005 Spatially disjunct effects of co-occurring competition and facilitation Ecol Lett 8 1191 1200 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00822.x
15. LA Donovan JH Richards 2000 Juvenile shrubs show differences in stress tolerance, but no competition or facilitation, along a stress gradient J Ecol 88 1 16 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00411.x
16. CF Dormann RW Brooker 2002 Facilitation and competition in the high Arctic: The importance of the experimental approach Acta Oecol-Int J Ecol 23 297 301 10.1016/S1146-609X(02)01158-X
17. RJN Emery CC Chinnappa JG Chmielewski 1994 Specialization, plant strategies, and phenotypic plasticity in populations of Stellaria longipes along an elevational gradient Int J Plant Sci 155 203 219 10.1086/297160
18. JK Eränen 2008 Rapid evolution towards heavy metal resistance by mountain birch around two subarctic copper-nickel smelters J Evol Biol 21 492 501 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2007.01491.x
19. JK Eränen MV Kozlov 2006 Physical sheltering and liming improve survival and performance of mountain birch seedlings: A 5-year study in a heavily polluted industrial barren Restor Ecol 14 77 86 10.1111/j.1526-100X. 2006.00107.x
20. JK Eränen MV Kozlov 2007 Competition and facilitation in industrial barrens: Variation in performance of mountain birch seedlings with distance from nurse plants Chemosphere 67 1088 1095 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2006.11.048
21. Eränen JK, Kozlov MV (2008) Increasing intraspecific facilitation in exposed environments: consistent results from mountain birch populations in two subarctic stress gradients. Oikos. doi: 10.1111/j.2008.0030-1299.16772.x
22. EK Espeland KJ Rice 2007 Facilitation across stress gradients: The importance of local adaptation Ecology 88 2404 2409 10.1890/06-1217.1
23. Futuyma DJ (2001) Ecological specialization and generalization. In: Fox CW, Roff DA, Fairbairn DJ (eds) Evolutionary ecology-Concepts and case studies. Oxford University Press, New York, USA, pp 177-189
24. MA Geber LR Griffen 2003 Inheritance and natural selection on functional traits Int J Plant Sci 164 S21 S42 10.1086/368233
25. R Ginocchio G Carvallo I Toro 2004 Micro-spatial variation of soil metal pollution and plant recruitment near a copper smelter in Central Chile Environ Pollut 127 343 352 10.1016/j.envpol.2003.08.020
26. L Gómez-Aparicio R Zamora J Castro 2008 Facilitation of tree saplings by nurse plants: Microhabitat amelioration or protection against herbivores? J Veg Sci 19 161 172
27. JP Grime 1973 Competitive exclusion in herbaceous vegetation Nature 242 344 347 10.1038/242344a0
28. MS Heschel SE Sultan S Glover 2004 Population differentiation and plastic responses to drought stress in the generalist annual Polygonum persicaria Int J Plant Sci 165 817 824 10.1086/421477
29. TJ Kawecki D Ebert 2004 Conceptual issues in local adaptation Ecol Lett 7 1225 1241 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00684.x
30. JG Kingsolver DW Pfennig MR Servedio 2002 Migration, local adaptation and the evolution of plasticity Trends Ecol Evol 17 540 541 10.1016/S0169-5347(02) 02641-1
31. MV Kozlov 2001 Snowpack changes around a nickel-copper smelter at Monchegorsk, northwestern Russia Can J Res 31 1684 1690 10.1139/cjfr-31-10-1684
32. Kozlov MV, Haukioja E (1998) Microclimate changes along a strong pollution gradient in northern boreal forest zone. In: Uso JL, Brebbia CA, Power H (eds) Ecosystems and sustainable development. Computational Mechanics Publications, Southampton, UK, pp 603-614
33. MV Kozlov EL Zvereva 2007 Industrial barrens: Extreme habitats created by non-ferrous metallurgy Rev Environ Sci Biotechnol 6 231 259 10.1007/s11157-006-9117-9
34. VV Kryuchkov 1993 Extreme anthropogenic loads and the northern ecosystem condition Ecol Appl 3 622 630 10.2307/1942095
35. Laland KN, Odling-Smee FJ, Feldman MW (1999) Evolutionary consequences of niche construction and their implications for ecology. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 96:10242-10247. doi: 10.1073/pnas.96.18.10242
36. P Liancourt RM Callaway R Michalet 2005 Stress tolerance and competitive-response ability determine the outcome of biotic interactions Ecology 86 1611 1618 10.1890/04-1398
37. YB Linhart MC Grant 1996 Evolutionary significance of local genetic differentiation in plants Annu Rev Ecol Syst 27 237 277 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys. 27.1.237
38. Littell RC, Milliken GA, Stroup WW et al (1996) SAS system for mixed models. SAS Institute Inc., Cary, North Carolina, USA
39. CJ Lortie RM Callaway 2006 Re-analysis of meta-analysis: Support for the stress-gradient hypothesis J Ecol 94 7 16 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2005.01066.x
40. Lukina NV, Nikonov VV (1999) Pollution-induced changes in soils subjected to intense air pollution. In: Nikonov VV, Koptsik GN (eds) Acidic deposition and forest soils. Kola Science Centre, Apatity, Russia, pp 79-126 (in Russian)
41. FT Maestre F Valladares JF Reynolds 2005 Is the change of plant-plant interactions with abiotic stress predictable? A meta-analysis of field results in arid environments J Ecol 93 748 757 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2005.01017.x
42. FT Maestre F Valladares JF Reynolds 2006 The stress-gradient hypothesis does not fit all relationships between plant-plant interactions and abiotic stress: further insights from arid environments J Ecol 94 17 22 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2005.01089.x
43. Milyaev VB, Yasenskij AN (2006) Annual report on emissions of pollutants into the atmosphere in cities and regions of the Russian Federation in 2005. Institute of Ambient Air Protection, St. Petersburg, Russia (in Russian)
44. FJ Odling-Smee KN Laland MW Feldman 1996 Niche construction Am Nat 147 641 648 10.1086/285870
45. T Ohsawa Y Ide 2008 Global patterns of genetic variation in plant species along vertical and horizontal gradients on mountains Glob Ecol Biogeogr 17 152 163 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00357.x
46. Ruotsalainen AL, Markkola AM, Kozlov MV (2008) Mycorrhizal colonisation of mountain birch (Betula pubescens ssp. czerepanovii) along three environmental gradients: does life in harsh environments alter plant-fungal relationships? Environ Monit Assess. doi: 10.1007/s10661-007-0152-y
47. O Savolainen T Pyhäjärvi T Knurr 2007 Gene flow and local adaptation in trees Annu Rev Ecol Evol Syst 38 595 619
48. DR Taylor LW Aarssen 1988 An interpretation of phenotypic plasticity in Agropyron repens (Graminae) Am J Bot 75 401 413 10.2307/2443987
49. Turelli M, Barton NH, Coyne JA (2001) Theory and speciation. Trends Ecol Evol 16:330-343. doi: 10.1016/S0169-5347(01)02177-2
50. G Turesson 1922 The species and the variety as ecological units Hereditas 3 100 113
51. G Turesson 1925 The plant species in relation to habitat and climate Hereditas 6 147 236
52. F Valladares D Sanchez-Gomez MA Zavala 2006 Quantitative estimation of phenotypic plasticity: Bridging the gap between the evolutionary concept and its ecological applications J Ecol 94 1103 1116 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2006.01176.x
53. S Via R Gomulkiewicz G De Jong 1995 Adaptive phenotypic plasticity - Consensus and controversy Trends Ecol Evol 10 212 217 10.1016/S0169-5347(00) 89061-8
54. M Weih PS Karlsson 1999 Growth response of altitudinal ecotypes of mountain birch to temperature and fertilisation Oecologia 119 16 23 10.1007/s004420050756
55. S Wipf C Rixen CPH Mulder 2006 Advanced snowmelt causes shift towards positive neighbour interactions in a subarctic tundra community Glob Change Biol 12 1496 1506 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01185.x
56. A Wolf MV Kozlov TV Callaghan 2008 Impact of non-outbreak insect damage on vegetation in northern Europe will be greater than expected during the changing climate Clim Change 87 91 106 10.1007/s10584-007-9340-6
57. EL Zvereva MV Kozlov 2004 Facilitative effects of top-canopy plants on four dwarf shrub species in habitats severely disturbed by pollution J Ecol 92 288 296 10.1111/j.0022-0477.2004.00854.x