Biomass partitioning in grassland plants along independent gradients in temperature and precipitation

Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics

Volumn 19, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-11

  Skarpaas, Olav ^a   Meineri, Eric ^b,c   Bargmann, Tessa ^b   Pötsch, Christine ^b   Töpper, Joachim ^b,d   Vandvik, Vigdis ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d WESTERN NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Allocation; Allometric partitioning theory; Alpine plants; Climate change; Optimal partitioning theory; Precipitation; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GRASSLAND; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CAREX; VERONICA;

EID: 84961889685     PISSN: 14338319     EISSN: 16180437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2016.01.006     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Bargmann, T., How are plants responding to a changing climate? A case study of growth and allocation in Veronica alpina, Viola biflora, Veronica officinalis and Viola palustris in western Norway. 2009, University of Oxford, Oxford Available online: http://www.uib.no/rg/EECRG/publications/theses/bargmann-2009.
2. Bates, D.M., Mächler, M., Dai, B., Linear mixed-effects models using S4 classes. 2013 Available at: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/lme4/lme4.pdf.
3. Bazzaz, F.A., Ackerly, D.D., Reekie, E.G., Reproductive allocation in plants. Fenner, M., (eds.) Seeds: The Ecology of Regeneration in Plant Communities, 2nd ed., 2000, CAB International, Wallingford.
4. Bazzaz, F.A., Grace, J., Plant Resource Allocation. 1997, Academic Press, San Diego.
5. Billings, W.D., Mooney, H.A., The ecology of arctic and alpine plants. Biol. Rev. 43 (1968), 481–529.
6. Bliss, L.C., Arctic and alpine plant life cycles. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 2 (1971), 405–438.
7. Bloom, A.J., Chapin, F.S. III, Mooney, H.A., Resource limitation in plants – an economic analogy. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 16 (1985), 363–392.
8. Bonser, S.P., Aarssen, L.W., Interpreting reproductive allometry: individual strategies of allocation explain size-dependent reproduction in plant populations. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 11 (2009), 31–40.
9. Chambers, J., Seed and vegetation dynamics in an alpine herb field: effects of disturbance type. Can. J. Bot. 71 (1993), 471–485.
10. Dukes, J.S., Chiariello, N.R., Cleland, E.E., Moore, L.A., Shaw, M.R., Thayer, S., Tobeck, T., Mooney, H.A., Field, C.B., Responses of grassland production to single and multiple global environmental changes. PLoS Biol., 3, 2005, e319.
11. Enquist, B.J., Universal scaling in tree and vascular plant allometry: toward a general quantitative theory linking plant form and function from cells to ecosystems. Tree Physiol. 22 (2002), 1045–1064.
12. Enquist, B.J., Allen, A.P., Brown, J.H., Gillooly, J.F., Kerkhoff, A.J., Niklas, K.J., Price, C.A., West, G.B., Biological scaling: does the exception prove the rule?. Nature 445 (2007), E9–E10.
13. Enquist, B.J., Niklas, K.J., Global allocation rules for patterns of biomass partitioning in seed plants. Science 295 (2002), 1517–1520.
14. Enquist, B.J., West, G.B., Charnov, E.L., Brown, J.H., Allometric scaling of production and life-history variation in vascular plants. Nature 401 (1999), 907–911.
15. Fabbro, T., Körner, C., Altitudinal differences in flower traits and reproductive allocation. Flora Morphol. Distrib. Funct. Ecol. Plants 199 (2004), 70–81.
16. Fariñas, S.A., How do changing climate variables impact alpine plant communities? Linking gradients of temperature, precipitation, and available soil nitrogen to plant growth and chemistry. 2011, University of Michigan.
17. Fremstad, E., Vegetasjonstyper i Norge. 1997, Stiftelsen for naturforskning og kulturminneforskning (NINA-NIKU), Trondheim, 1–279.
18. Gabrielsen, B., Sex after all: high levels of diversity detected in the arctic clonal plant Saxifraga cemua using RAPD markers. Mol. Ecol. 7 (1998), 1701–1708.
19. Guo, H., Weiner, J., Mazer, S.J., Zhao, Z., Du, G., Li, B., Reproductive allometry in Pedicularis species changes with elevation. J. Ecol. 100 (2012), 452–458.
20. Klanderud, K., Vandvik, V., Goldberg, D., The importance of biotic vs. abiotic drivers of local plant community composition along regional bioclimatic gradients. PLoS ONE, 10, 2015, e0130205.
21. Körner, C., Alpine Plant Life: Functional Plant Ecology of High Mountain Ecosystems. 2nd ed., 2003, Springer, Berlin.
22. Larcher, W., Physiological Plant Ecology. 1995, Springer, Berlin.
23. Liira, J., Zobel, K., The species richness–biomass relationship in herbaceous plant communities: what difference does the incorporation of root biomass data make?. Oikos 91 (2000), 109–114.
24. McCarthy, M.C., Enquist, B.J., Consistency between an allometric approach and optimal partitioning theory in global patterns of plant biomass allocation. Funct. Ecol. 21 (2007), 713–720.
25. McConnaughay, K.D.M., Coleman, J.S., Biomass allocation in plants: ontogeny or optimality? A test along three resource gradients. Ecology 80 (1999), 2581–2593.
26. Meineri, E., Skarpaas, O., Spindelböck, J., Bargmann, T., Vandvik, V., Direct and size-dependent effects of climate on flowering performance in alpine and lowland herbaceous species. J. Veg. Sci. 25 (2014), 275–286.
27. Meineri, E., Spindelböck, J., Vandvik, V., Seedling emergence responds to both seed source and recruitment site climates: a climate change experiment combining transplant and gradient approaches. Plant Ecol. 214 (2013), 607–619.
28. Nicotra, A.B., Atkin, O.K., Bonser, S.P., Davidson, A.M., Finnegan, E.J., Mathesius, U., Poot, P., Purugganan, M.D., Richards, C.L., Valladares, F., van Kleunen, M., Plant phenotypic plasticity in a changing climate. Trends Plant Sci. 15 (2010), 684–692.
29. Niu, K., Luo, Y., Choler, P., Du, G., The role of biomass allocation strategy in diversity loss due to fertilization. Basic Appl. Ecol. 9 (2008), 485–493.
30. Pinheiro, J.C., Bates, D.M., Mixed-Effects Models in S and S-Plus. 2000, Springer, New York.
31. Poorter, H., Niklas, K.J., Reich, P.B., Oleksyn, J., Poot, P., Mommer, L., Biomass allocation to leaves, stems and roots: meta-analyses of interspecific variation and environmental control. New Phytol. 193 (2012), 30–50.
32. Price, C.A., Enquist, B.J., Scaling of mass and morphology in plants with minimal branching: an extension of the WBE model. Funct. Ecol. 20 (2006), 11–20.
33. Price, C.A., Weitz, J.S., Savage, V.M., Stegen, J., Clarke, A., Coomes, D.A., Dodds, P.S., Etienne, R.S., Kerkhoff, A.J., McCulloh, K., Niklas, K.J., Olff, H., Swenson, N.G., Testing the metabolic theory of ecology. Ecol. Lett. 15 (2012), 1465–1474.
34. Pötsch, C., Resource allocation in two selected Carex species along climate gradients. 2010, Department of Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen.
35. R Core Team, R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing. Version 3.1.1. 2014, R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria Available online: http://www.R-project.org/.
36. Savage, V.M., Deeds, E.J., Fontana, W., Sizing up allometric scaling theory. PLoS Comput. Biol., 4, 2008, e1000171.
37. Schielzeth, H., Simple means to improve the interpretability of regression coefficients. Methods Ecol. Evol. 1 (2010), 103–113.
38. Stearns, S.C., The Evolution of Life Histories. 1992, Oxford University Press, New York.
39. Steltzer, H., Hufbauer, R.A., Welker, J.M., Casalis, M., Sullivan, P.F., Chimner, R., Frequent sexual reproduction and high intraspecific variation in Salix arctica: implications for a terrestrial feedback to climate change in the High Arctic. J. Geophys. Res., 113, 2008, G03S10.
40. Tveito, O.E., Bjordal, I., Skjelvag, A.O., Aune, B., A GIS-based agro-ecological decision system based on gridded climatology. Meteorol. Appl. 12 (2005), 57–68.
41. Töpper, J.P., Predicting and assessing climate-change impacts on the population dynamics of alpine and lowland forbs. 2015, Department of Biology, University of Bergen.
42. Vandvik, V., Klanderud, K., Meineri, E., Måren, I.E., Töpper, J., Seed banks are biodiversity reservoirs: species–area relationships above versus below ground. Oikos, 2015, 10.1111/oik.02022.
43. Wardle, D.A., Peltzer, D.A., Interspecific interactions and biomass allocation among grassland plant species. Oikos 100 (2003), 497–506.
44. Warton, D.I., Duursma, R.A., Falster, D.S., Taskinen, S., smatr 3 – an R package for estimation and inference about allometric lines. Methods Ecol. Evol. 3 (2012), 257–259.
45. Weißhuhn, K., Auge, H., Prati, D., Geographic variation in the response to drought in nine grassland species. Basic Appl. Ecol. 12 (2011), 21–28.
46. West, G.B., Brown, J.H., Enquist, B.J., A general model for the origin of allometric scaling laws in biology. Science 276 (1997), 122–126.
47. Wilson, S.D., Tilman, D., Plant competition and resource availability in response to disturbance and fertilization. Ecology 74 (1993), 599–611.
48. Zabinski, C., Wojtowics, T., Cole, D., The effects of recreation disturbance on subalpine seed banks in the Rocky Mountains of Montana. Can. J. Bot. 78 (2000), 577–582.