亚高寒草甸植物种内变异与基于性状的群落构建机制.docVIP

  亚高寒草甸植物种内变异与基于性状的群 落构建机制 李远智，陈宁，王刚 5 （兰州大学干旱与草地生态教育部重点实验室，兰州 730000） 摘要：基于功能性状的研究方法越来越多地被生态学家所关注并用于群落构建的研究，但多 数研究都以平均性状来描述物种，而忽略种内变异。本实验选取株高、叶片干物质含量和比 叶面积三个性状，在不同水平上引入种内变异，然后用零模型检验生境过滤和相似限制，来 10 15 研究种内变异在群落构建中的作用。结果表明：群落平均叶片干物质含量沿水分梯度呈显著 的负线性关系，种内变异对这种线性关系贡献率为 65.9%。群落平均株高和比叶面积沿水分 梯度变化不显著，但在考虑种内变异后沿水分梯度都呈显著正线性关系。在三个性状中都分 别检出了生境过滤和相似限制。对均值，种内变异可显著提高生境过滤的检出；对范围和邻 距的变异系数，种内变异分别显著降低了生境过滤和相似限制的检出。得出基于生态位过程 的生境过滤和相似限制在群落构建中起着重要的作用，而且种内变异有利于物种的共存，特 别是种群水平的种内变异。因此以后的工作应深入种内变异的研究以更好地理解群落构建的 机制。 关键词：生态学；群落构建；功能性状；种内变异；生境过滤；相似限制 中图分类号：Q14 20 Plant intraspecific variability and trait-bsaed community assembly in subalpine meadow LI Yuanzhi, Chen Ning, Wang Gang (Key laboratory Arid and Grass Ecology with Ministry of Education, Lanzhou University, 25 30 35 40 45 LanZhou 730000) Abstract: Trait-based approaches are increasingly used to the study of community assembly by ecologists. However, species are commonly described by functional traits averaged at species level without considering intraspecific variability. We investigate the role of intraspecific variability in three traits - Height, LDMC (leaf dry matter content) and SLA (specific leaf area) along water content gradient. Null model approach is used to detect the two niche-based progresses: habitat filtering and limiting similarity. We find that community mean LDMC decreased significantly along water content gradient and intraspecific variability accounted for 65.9% of this trait-gradient relationship. Community mean Height and SLA did not vary significantly along the gradient, without considering intraspecific variability, but both traits showed significant positive linear relationship along the gradient, when intraspecific variability considered. Null model approach reveals significant patterns of habitat filtering and limiting similarity for all three traits. Moreover, for mean, intraspecific variability greatly increased the detection of habitat filtering, for range and CV_ND (coefficient variation of neig