[Relationships between plant reproductive strategy and disturbance]

Plant reproductive strategy in life history is related to plant adaptation or evolution, ecosystem degradation or restoration, and biodiversity conservation, which are the components of theoretic and applied ecological studies. In this article, several issues concerning the relationships between plant reproductive strategy in life history and disturbance, including Grime's classification of plant reproductive strategies, adaptations of plant vegetative reproduction to disturbances, adaptations of seed morphological traits to disturbance, roles of soil seed bank in disturbance adaptation, and dispersal and germination adaptation of diaspores to disturbance, were briefly reviewed. China's study on relationships between plant reproductive strategy in life history and disturbance in arid zone was also reviewed and discussed.