Jacquemyn H et al A spatially explicit analysis of seedling recruitment in the terrestrial orchid Orchis purpurea英文电子书.pdf

Research Blackwell Publishing Ltd A spatially explicit analysis of seedling recruitment in the terrestrial orchid Orchis purpurea 1 1 2,3 3 2 Hans Jacquemyn , Rein Brys , Katrien Vandepitte , Olivier Honnay , Isabel Roldán-Ruiz and Thorsten Wiegand4 1Division of Forest, Nature and Landscape Research, Catholic University of Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200E, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium; 2Applied Genetics and Breeding, Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research, Caritasstraat 21, 9090 Melle, Belgium; 3Laboratory of Plant Ecology, Catholic University of Leuven, Arenbergpark 31, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium; 4Department of Ecological Modelling, UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, PF 500136, DE-04301 Leipzig, Germany Summary • Seed dispersal and the subsequent recruitment of new individuals into a population Author for correspondence: are important processes affecting the population dynamics, genetic diversity and Hans Jacquemyn Tel: +32 16 32 97 73 spatial genetic structure of plant populations. Fax: +32 16 32 97 60 • Spatial patterns of seedling recruitment were investigated in two populations Email: hans.jacquemyn@biw.kuleuven.be of the terrestrial orchid Orchis purpurea using both univariate and bivariate point Received: 2 May 2007 pattern analysis, parentage analysis and seed germination experiments. Accepted: 5 June 2007 • Both adults and recruits showed a clustered spatial distribution with cluster radii of c. 4–5 m. The parentage analy