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Journal Article
Phylogenetically balanced evidence for structural and carbon isotope responses in plants along elevational gradients
2010
Overview
We tested three hypotheses related to the functioning of mountain plants, namely their reproductive effort, leaf surface structure and effectiveness of CO₂ assimilation, using archive material from contrasting elevations. Analysis of elevational trends is at risk of suffering from two major biases: a phylogenetic bias (i.e. an elevational change in the abundance of taxonomic groups), and covariation of different environmental drivers (e.g. water, temperature, atmospheric pressure), which do not permit a mechanistic interpretation. We solved both problems in a subcontinental survey of elevational trends in key plant traits in the European Alps and the high Arctic (northern Sweden, Svalbard), using herbarium samples of 147 species belonging to the genera Carex, Saxifraga and Potentilla. We used both species and phylogenetically independent contrasts as data points. The analysis revealed enhanced reproductive efforts at higher elevation in insect-pollinated taxa (not in wind-pollinated taxa), no increase in leaf pubescence at high elevation (as is often assumed), and a strong correlation between ¹³C discrimination and elevation. Alpine taxa operate at a smaller mesophyll resistance to CO₂ uptake relative to diffusive resistance (stomata). By comparison with congeneric low altitude polar taxa (low temperature, but high atmospheric pressure), the response could be attributed to the elevational decline in atmospheric pressure rather than temperature (a mean increase in δ¹³C by 1.4‰ km⁻¹). The signal is consistent within and across genera and within species, suggesting rapid adjustment of leaf physiology to reduced partial pressure of CO₂. These results offer answers to long-debated issues of plant responses to high elevation life conditions.
Publisher
Berlin/Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag,Springer,Springer-Verlag,Springer Nature B.V
Subject
/ Altitude
/ Analysis
/ Animal, plant and microbial ecology
/ Biological and medical sciences
/ Biomedical and Life Sciences
/ carbon
/ Carbon Isotopes - metabolism
/ Carex
/ Ecology
/ France
/ Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
/ Genera
/ herbaria
/ Isotopes
/ Italy
/ Leaves
/ PHYSIOLOGICAL ECOLOGY - ORIGINAL PAPER
/ Plants
/ Rain
/ risk
/ Seasons
/ Stomata
/ Surveys
/ Sweden
/ Taxa
