树苗对增加的食草和干旱的反应:一个可能的权衡?

Marta Peláez1,2,3, Aida López-Sánchez1,4, Geraldo Wilson Fernandes5

  • 1Plant and Animal EcoLogy LAb (PAELLA), Centro para la Conservación de la Biodiversidad y el Desarrollo Sostenible (CBDS), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, C/ José Antonio Novais 10, Madrid, 28040, Spain.

Annals of botany
|October 9, 2024
PubMed
概括

状草食动物可以通过减少水损失和促进根生长来帮助地中海树幼苗在干旱中存活. 这种相互作用对于树的招募和大草原的持久性至关重要,因物种和压力水平而异.

相关概念视频

Responses to Drought and Flooding02:41

Responses to Drought and Flooding

Water plays a significant role in the life cycle of plants. However, insufficient or excess of water can be detrimental and pose a serious threat to plants.
10.6K
Adaptations that Reduce Water Loss01:57

Adaptations that Reduce Water Loss

Though evaporation from plant leaves drives transpiration, it also results in loss of water. Because water is critical for photosynthetic reactions and other cellular processes, evolutionary pressures on plants in different environments have driven the acquisition of adaptations that reduce water loss.
25.1K
Responses to Heat and Cold Stress02:45

Responses to Heat and Cold Stress

Every organism has an optimum temperature range within which healthy growth and physiological functioning can occur. At the ends of this range, there will be a minimum and maximum temperature that interrupt biological processes.
13.4K
Responses to Salt Stress02:02

Responses to Salt Stress

Salt stress—which can be triggered by high salt concentrations in a plant’s environment—can significantly affect plant growth and crop production by influencing photosynthesis and the absorption of water and nutrients.
13.0K
Optimal Foraging00:48

Optimal Foraging

How animals obtain and eat their food is called foraging behavior. Foraging can include searching for plants and hunting for prey and depends on the species and environment.
12.0K
Defenses Against Pathogens and Herbivores02:26

Defenses Against Pathogens and Herbivores

Plants present a rich source of nutrients for many organisms, making it a target for herbivores and infectious agents. Plants, though lacking a proper immune system, have developed an array of constitutive and inducible defenses to fend off these attacks.
23.2K