Plant ecology, resources and taxonomy

Does Phylogenetic Relatedness Affect the Neighborhood Effects among Neighbors in Plant Communities?

  • 王丽萍,乌俊杰,陈凤仙,冯 哲,于小莉,孙继文
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  • (College of Agriculture and Biology, Dali University, Dali 671003, Yunnan China)

Received date: 2023-04-12

  Accepted date: 2023-06-13

  Online published: 2023-08-24

Abstract

Phylogenetic relationships among neighbors are significant predictors of density dependence in plant communities. However, there is no consistent conclusion about the effect of phylogenetic density dependence . We conducted a comprehensive literature search for the effect of phylogenetic density dependence using the Web of Science, Google Scholar and CNKI by keywords from 1 January 1980 to 1 May 2022. We screened titles, abstracts and full texts of the papers, and 35 publications were selected. The strength of the influence of phylogenetic distance on the interactions between neighboring trees in each study was extracted. There are three effects of phylogenetic relationships on neighborhood effects: phylogenetic negative density dependence (PNDD), phylogenetic positive density dependence (PPDD) and no phylogenetic density dependence, the numbers of whose articles decrease in turn. PNDD was mainly caused by associated competition resources, natural enemies and host-specific pathogens. PPDD was associated with small habitat heterogeneity, habitat filtering and symbiosis with mycorrhizal fungi. However, there are no phylogenetic density dependence due to absence of phylogenetic signal in functional traits and no direct interaction between early plant neighbors. The main reasons for the different results caused by various environmental heterogeneities, research scales, study types, target species and the life history stages of plants in different studies. Therefore, the influence of these factors should be considered as far as possible in the study of phylogenetic density dependence in the future.

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王丽萍,乌俊杰,陈凤仙,冯 哲,于小莉,孙继文 . Does Phylogenetic Relatedness Affect the Neighborhood Effects among Neighbors in Plant Communities?[J]. Subtropical Plant Science, 2023 , 52(3) : 242 -252 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1009-7791.2023.03.009

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