Water Holding Capacity of Some Bryophyta Species from Tundra and North Taiga of the West Siberia
Functional traits are a set of characteristics that are expressed in the phenotype of an individual organism as a response to the environment and their impact on the ecosystem’s properties. They are positioned at the crossroads between the response and influence of the organisms, creating a certain...
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ftmdpi:oai:mdpi.com:/2073-4441/15/14/2626/ 2023-08-20T04:10:05+02:00 Water Holding Capacity of Some Bryophyta Species from Tundra and North Taiga of the West Siberia Irina I. Volkova Igor V. Volkov Yana A. Morozova Viktor A. Nikitkin Evgenia K. Vishnyakova Nina P. Mironycheva-Tokareva agris 2023-07-19 application/pdf https://doi.org/10.3390/w15142626 EN eng Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute Water and Climate Change https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w15142626 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Water; Volume 15; Issue 14; Pages: 2626 water holding capacity bryophyte functional traits tundra north taiga West Siberia Text 2023 ftmdpi https://doi.org/10.3390/w15142626 2023-08-01T10:55:47Z Functional traits are a set of characteristics that are expressed in the phenotype of an individual organism as a response to the environment and their impact on the ecosystem’s properties. They are positioned at the crossroads between the response and influence of the organisms, creating a certain interest in functional ecological and evolutionary fields. Due to this unique position, they are divided into two categories: effect functional traits and response functional traits. Effect traits describe the influence of the species on the environment regardless of whether such traits are an adaptive advantage to the individual or not. In Bryophyta, one of the most important effect traits is water holding capacity (WHC), which is their means of regulating ecosystem hydrology. On a global scale, mosses’ WHC is manifested in the slowdown of the large water cycle, in the storage of huge volumes of fresh water by peatlands and in the enormous paludification of Western Siberia. The main goal of our research was to obtain the water holding capacity measurements of tundra and taiga moss species to establish the base and foundation for environmental monitoring in the north of Siberia—the region with the most rapidly changing climate. Both the capacity to hold water within the moss tissues (WHC) and the capacity to hold water externally between the morphological structures (leaves, branches, rhizoids, etc.) (WHCe) were measured. In total, 95 samples of 9 Sphagnum and 5 true mosses species were involved to the research; some species were collected at two or three sampling sites within two natural zones/subzones that gave us the opportunity to compare the WHC along the meridional transection. In average, the northern taiga samples showed slightly higher WHC than tundra samples, probably due to the environmental specifics of the habitat—the taiga habitats were more moist, while the tundra was drier. Overall, in the majority of species, the standard deviation calculation revealed that the variability of WHCe is significantly ... Text taiga Tundra Siberia MDPI Open Access Publishing Water 15 14 2626 |
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Functional traits are a set of characteristics that are expressed in the phenotype of an individual organism as a response to the environment and their impact on the ecosystem’s properties. They are positioned at the crossroads between the response and influence of the organisms, creating a certain interest in functional ecological and evolutionary fields. Due to this unique position, they are divided into two categories: effect functional traits and response functional traits. Effect traits describe the influence of the species on the environment regardless of whether such traits are an adaptive advantage to the individual or not. In Bryophyta, one of the most important effect traits is water holding capacity (WHC), which is their means of regulating ecosystem hydrology. On a global scale, mosses’ WHC is manifested in the slowdown of the large water cycle, in the storage of huge volumes of fresh water by peatlands and in the enormous paludification of Western Siberia. The main goal of our research was to obtain the water holding capacity measurements of tundra and taiga moss species to establish the base and foundation for environmental monitoring in the north of Siberia—the region with the most rapidly changing climate. Both the capacity to hold water within the moss tissues (WHC) and the capacity to hold water externally between the morphological structures (leaves, branches, rhizoids, etc.) (WHCe) were measured. In total, 95 samples of 9 Sphagnum and 5 true mosses species were involved to the research; some species were collected at two or three sampling sites within two natural zones/subzones that gave us the opportunity to compare the WHC along the meridional transection. In average, the northern taiga samples showed slightly higher WHC than tundra samples, probably due to the environmental specifics of the habitat—the taiga habitats were more moist, while the tundra was drier. Overall, in the majority of species, the standard deviation calculation revealed that the variability of WHCe is significantly ... |
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Water Holding Capacity of Some Bryophyta Species from Tundra and North Taiga of the West Siberia |
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Water Holding Capacity of Some Bryophyta Species from Tundra and North Taiga of the West Siberia |
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Water Holding Capacity of Some Bryophyta Species from Tundra and North Taiga of the West Siberia |
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Water Holding Capacity of Some Bryophyta Species from Tundra and North Taiga of the West Siberia |
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Water Holding Capacity of Some Bryophyta Species from Tundra and North Taiga of the West Siberia |
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