[article]
| Titre : |
Population density and module demography in Trapa natans (Trapaceae), an annual, clonal aquatic macrophyte |
| Type de document : |
Imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Anne T. Groth ; Lesley Lovett-Doust ; Jon Lovett-Doust |
| Année de publication : |
1996 |
| Article en page(s) : |
1406-1415 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Catégories : |
[CBNPMP-Thématique] Démographie, écologie des populations (dynamique des populations, démécologie)
[CBNPMP-Thématique] Plantes subspontanées, naturalisées, envahissantes
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| Mots-clés : |
Trapa natans L. |
| Résumé : |
The effects of population density on module demography were studied in Trapa natans L., an annual aquatic macrophyte capable of extensive clonal propagation. At low density, the floating plants produced ten times as many ramets (clonal offshoots) as those at high density. Module mortality occurred at three levels: leaf, ramet (shoot), and genet (genetic individual). There was 100-fold variation in the size of nuts containing germinable seeds. In early summer there was a highly significant linear relationship between dry mass of nuts and the total mass of ramets that each had produced. In early summer most (73–83%) of the variation in total plant biomass was attributable to variation in initial nut size. However the significance of initial nut size was diminished later in the season. The great success of the exotic weed T. natans at colonizing and monopolizing an aquatic habitat is a function of its highly productive clonal growth response to low-density conditions, combined with greater proportional allocation of biomass to reproductive structures, resulting in greatly increased nut production at low initial density. The species appears able to develop and maintain a population at extremely high density: plant buoyancy and the production of large, well-protected nuts allow rapid early growth from the sediment each year and early pre-emption of the water surface. |
| Identifiant : |
DOI : 10.1002/j.1537-2197.1996.tb13934.x  |
| Permalink : |
https://biblio.cbnpmp.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=137367 |
in American Journal of Botany > 83 (11) (1996) . - 1406-1415
Groth, Anne T., Lovett-Doust, Lesley, Lovett-Doust, Jon
1996
Population density and module demography in Trapa natans (Trapaceae), an annual, clonal aquatic macrophyte.
American Journal of Botany, 83(11): 1406-1415.
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Population density and module demography in Trapa natans (Trapaceae), an annual, clonal aquatic macrophyte in American Journal of Botany, 83 (11) (1996)
