Relationships between plant reproductive strategy and disturbance

Abstract

Abstract: 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.

Key words: Life history, Disturbance, Seed morphology, Vegetative reproduction, Soil seed bank, growth characteristics, soil reinforcement, lateral-root branch, anti-fracture force, self-healing

CLC Number:

Q948.1

LIU Zhimin, JIANG Deming, GAO Hongying, CHANG Xueli. Relationships between plant reproductive strategy and disturbance[J]. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 2003, (3): 418-422.

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