Tolerance to mechanical damage in ten herbaceous grassland plant species
العنوان: | Tolerance to mechanical damage in ten herbaceous grassland plant species |
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المؤلفون: | Frank Küchenmeister, Kai Küchenmeister, Johannes Isselstein, L. Breitsameter |
المصدر: | Plant, Soil and Environment. 58:334-339 |
بيانات النشر: | Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 2012. |
سنة النشر: | 2012 |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | 0106 biological sciences, Poa pratensis, biology, Agrostis stolonifera, food and beverages, Soil Science, biology.organism_classification, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Lolium perenne, Agronomy, Shoot, Trifolium repens, Elymus repens, Festuca rubra, Festuca arundinacea, 010606 plant biology & botany |
الوصف: | The establishment of plants with high damage tolerance may provide a means for soil protection on sites exposed to strong disturbance. In a pot experiment, we investigated the tolerance to mechanical strain of ten grassland plant species representing three growth form groups (cespitose: Festuca arundinacea, Lolium perenne, Taraxacum offi cinale; rhizomatous: Achillea millefolium, Elymus repens, Poa pratensis; stoloniferous: Agrostis stolonifera, Festuca rubra rubra, Poa supina, Trifolium repens). We hypothesised that growth form and pre-disturbance biomass allocation to the root serve as predictors of damage tolerance. With a tool imitating the action of cleated football boots or scratching chicken, we applied three standardized levels (moderate, medium, strong) of a torsional force which exceeded the shear strength of the sward and impacted on shoots and roots. Post-treatment shoot biomass in relation to shoot biomass of the non-treated control plants served as a measure of damage tolerance. Species, but not growth form groups, differed significantly in damage tolerance, with F. arundinacea and P. pratensis showing the best performance. Shoot re-growth was strongly correlated with relative post-treatment root biomass across all species and treatment levels (R 2 = 0.25, P < 0.001), but not with pre-treatment root biomass. We conclude that root |
تدمد: | 1805-9368 1214-1178 |
URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::10964c7cff209ca7fb26a7aa544200b5 https://doi.org/10.17221/242/2012-pse |
حقوق: | OPEN |
رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........10964c7cff209ca7fb26a7aa544200b5 |
قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
تدمد: | 18059368 12141178 |
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