Costs of reproduction in life history of a perennial plant Carex secalina

Central European Journal of Biology - Tập 6 Số 5 - Trang 870-877 - 2011
Bogdanowicz, Agnieszka M.1, Olejniczak, Paweł2, Lembicz, Marlena1, Żukowski, Waldemar1
1Department of Plant Taxonomy, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
2Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland

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We tested a hypothesis based on life history theory that examines reproductive costs incurred by individuals in consecutive years of their life. A multi-year dataset of resource allocation to vegetative and reproductive structures was analysed in Carex secalina — a perennial, monoecious sedge, reproducing only sexually. In a four-year garden experiment, we assessed above-ground biomass at the end of each season and reproductive allocation expressed as the total length of male and female spikes. The study was aimed at determining how size and age of a plant relates to its reproduction, and how the rate of reproduction affects the year-toyear biomass change in Carex secalina. We observed that after each reproductive episode, individuals had significantly smaller sizes and produced a lower number of generative tillers. The total production of reproductive structures decreased significantly with age in all populations. Moreover, the decrease in plant biomass was greater when more reproductive structures were produced in a previous year, which indicates that the plants incur costs of reproduction in terms of above-ground biomass production.

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