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一般的,草本植物展叶最早,然后是灌木、乔木,在干旱区,灌木能为草本植物的生长提供一个环境条件,那么类似这种条件下,是木本植物先展叶还是草本植物先展叶?
Is there a temporal niche separation in the leaf phenology of savanna trees and grasses?Steven I. Higgins1,*, Maria D. Delgado-Cartay2, Edmund C. February3, Hendrik J. Combrink3,4
AbstractAim It has been proposed that, in tropical savannas, trees deploy their leaves earlier in the growing season and grasses deploy their leaves later. This hypothesis implies a mechanism that facilitates the coexistence of trees and grasses in savannas. If true, this hypothesis would also allow algorithms to use differences in the phenological timing of grass and tree leaves to partition the relative contribution of grasses and trees to net primary production. In this study we examine whether a temporal niche separation between grasses and trees exists in savanna.
Location A semi-arid, subtropical savanna, Kruger National Park, South Africa.
Methods We use a multi-spectral camera to track through an entire growing season the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) of individual canopies of grasses and trees at eight sites arranged along a precipitation and temperature gradient.
Results Among trees, we identified two distinct phenological syndromes: an early flushing syndrome and a late-flushing syndrome. Leaf flush in the tree strategies appears to pre-empt rainfall, whereas grass leaf flush follows the rain. The growing season of trees is 20 (late-flushing trees) to 27 (early flushing trees) days longer than that of the grasses.
Main conclusions We show that grasses and trees have different leaf deployment strategies. Trees deployed leaves at lower temperatures than grasses and retained them for longer at the end of the growing season. The timing of the increase in NDVI is, however, similar between grasses and late-flushing trees and this complicates the separation of grass and tree signals from multi-spectral satellite imagery.
source:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02549.x/abstract
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