Competition for resources is ameliorated by niche differentiation between Solidago virgaurea life-history stages in the Arctic
Aims Competition has been shown to modify the niche breadth of coexisting species, but within-species interactions have received little attention. Establishing small juvenile individuals and established, larger, sexually reproducing adult individuals represent two life-history stages within species....
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ftjyvaeskylaenun:oai:jyx.jyu.fi:123456789/56066 2024-02-04T09:56:37+01:00 Competition for resources is ameliorated by niche differentiation between Solidago virgaurea life-history stages in the Arctic Savolainen, Tiina Kytöviita, Minna-Maarit 2017 907-917 application/pdf http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201711244367 eng eng Oxford University Press; Botanical Society of China Journal of Plant Ecology 1752-9921 6 10 10.1093/jpe/rtw123 Savolainen, T., & Kytöviita, M.-M. (2017). Competition for resources is ameliorated by niche differentiation between Solidago virgaurea life-history stages in the Arctic. Journal of Plant Ecology , 10 (6), 907-917. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtw123 CONVID_26364452 TUTKAID_71993 URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201711244367 http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201711244367 © The Authors 2016. This is a final draft version of an article whose final and definitive form has been published by OUP. Published in this repository with the kind permission of the publisher. openAccess competition low Arctic niche resource-use stable isotope natural abundance article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1 acceptedVersion A1 2017 ftjyvaeskylaenun 2024-01-11T00:04:30Z Aims Competition has been shown to modify the niche breadth of coexisting species, but within-species interactions have received little attention. Establishing small juvenile individuals and established, larger, sexually reproducing adult individuals represent two life-history stages within species. We investigated the nitrogen and carbon resource use of adult and juvenile individuals and similarity of symbiotic fungal community composition in these two plant life stages. We used the plant Solidago virgaurea growing in a simplified system in the low Arctic as model species. Methods Isotopic signatures (foliar δ15N and foliar δ13C) were analysed to characterize nitrogen acquisition and water-use efficiency of the plants. Symbiotic root fungal community composition was estimated by cloning and sequencing small subunit ribosomal RNA gene. Important Findings The isotopic signatures differed significantly between the life stages, indicating that the establishing juvenile cohort used relatively more amino acids or gained N through mycorrhizal symbiosis in comparison to the established adult plants. Symbiotic fungal communities did not differ between the two plant cohorts suggesting a possibility that the plants shared the same mycorrhizal network. We conclude that competition-mediated differences in plant resource use may create niche differentiation between the two life-history stages and enable them to coexist. peerReviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic JYX - Jyväskylä University Digital Archive Arctic Journal of Plant Ecology rtw123 |
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Aims Competition has been shown to modify the niche breadth of coexisting species, but within-species interactions have received little attention. Establishing small juvenile individuals and established, larger, sexually reproducing adult individuals represent two life-history stages within species. We investigated the nitrogen and carbon resource use of adult and juvenile individuals and similarity of symbiotic fungal community composition in these two plant life stages. We used the plant Solidago virgaurea growing in a simplified system in the low Arctic as model species. Methods Isotopic signatures (foliar δ15N and foliar δ13C) were analysed to characterize nitrogen acquisition and water-use efficiency of the plants. Symbiotic root fungal community composition was estimated by cloning and sequencing small subunit ribosomal RNA gene. Important Findings The isotopic signatures differed significantly between the life stages, indicating that the establishing juvenile cohort used relatively more amino acids or gained N through mycorrhizal symbiosis in comparison to the established adult plants. Symbiotic fungal communities did not differ between the two plant cohorts suggesting a possibility that the plants shared the same mycorrhizal network. We conclude that competition-mediated differences in plant resource use may create niche differentiation between the two life-history stages and enable them to coexist. peerReviewed |
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Savolainen, Tiina Kytöviita, Minna-Maarit |
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Savolainen, Tiina Kytöviita, Minna-Maarit |
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Competition for resources is ameliorated by niche differentiation between Solidago virgaurea life-history stages in the Arctic |
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Competition for resources is ameliorated by niche differentiation between Solidago virgaurea life-history stages in the Arctic |
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Competition for resources is ameliorated by niche differentiation between Solidago virgaurea life-history stages in the Arctic |
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Competition for resources is ameliorated by niche differentiation between Solidago virgaurea life-history stages in the Arctic |
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Competition for resources is ameliorated by niche differentiation between Solidago virgaurea life-history stages in the Arctic |
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competition for resources is ameliorated by niche differentiation between solidago virgaurea life-history stages in the arctic |
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Oxford University Press; Botanical Society of China |
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Journal of Plant Ecology 1752-9921 6 10 10.1093/jpe/rtw123 Savolainen, T., & Kytöviita, M.-M. (2017). Competition for resources is ameliorated by niche differentiation between Solidago virgaurea life-history stages in the Arctic. Journal of Plant Ecology , 10 (6), 907-917. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtw123 CONVID_26364452 TUTKAID_71993 URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201711244367 http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201711244367 |
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© The Authors 2016. This is a final draft version of an article whose final and definitive form has been published by OUP. Published in this repository with the kind permission of the publisher. openAccess |
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