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Water relations and carbon economy of hemiepiphytic and non-hemiepiphytic Ficus tree species in southwest China.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Water relations and carbon economy of hemiepiphytic and non-hemiepiphytic Ficus tree species in southwest China./
Author:	Hao, Guangyou.
Description:	150 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-06, Section: B, page: 3519.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-06B.
Subject:	Biology, Botany. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3411645
ISBN:	9781124056609

Water relations and carbon economy of hemiepiphytic and non-hemiepiphytic Ficus tree species in southwest China.
Hao, Guangyou.

Water relations and carbon economy of hemiepiphytic and non-hemiepiphytic Ficus tree species in southwest China. - 150 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-06, Section: B, page: 3519.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Miami, 2010.

Hemiepiphytes are important components of tropical forests and are attractive to scientists due to their unique epiphytic growth habit during some period of their life cycle. Unique characteristics in plant water relations and carbon economy have been found in hemiepiphytic plants; however, to further understand this group of species on an evolutionary basis it is necessary to carry out comparative studies between hemiepiphytes and their close relatives. In this dissertation I conduced a comparative study in a suite of functional traits related to plant water relations and photosynthesis between hemiepiphytic and non-hemiepiphytic tree species from a single genus---Ficus. Great differentiation in functional traits has been found between species of the two growth forms both during juvenile and adult stages. Seedlings of hemiepiphytic Ficus species (H) had significantly lower xylem hydraulic conductivity, stomatal conductance, net light saturated CO 2 assimilation, and higher water use efficiency than congeneric non-hemiepiphytic species (NH), which are adaptive to a drought-prone epiphytic growth conditions under natural conditions. The conservative water use adaptation in H species is likely crucial to the drought tolerance and survival in the forest canopy but is related to much lower growth rates than NH species. Species of the two growth forms both showed relatively large plasticity in responding to variation in light level as in typical light-demanding species. Surprisingly, the NH species showed characteristics related to higher light demand than H species, which is opposite from the prediction that H species are more light-demanding than NH species. Thus, although commonly accepted, it is likely that light was not the selective pressure for the evolution of hemiepiphytism in Ficus. Using adult trees grown in a common garden, I found that H species showed characteristics of more conservative water use even after they established connections to the soil. Moreover, H species showed significantly different traits in photochemistry compared to NH species due to hydraulic-photosynthetic coordination. The evolution of an epiphytic growth habit during the juvenile stage of a life cycle in the hemiepiphytic Ficus species thus involved changes in a suite of functional traits that persist during their terrestrial growth stages.

ISBN: 9781124056609Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017825
Biology, Botany.

Water relations and carbon economy of hemiepiphytic and non-hemiepiphytic Ficus tree species in southwest China.
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