期刊
AMERICAN NATURALIST
卷 175, 期 1, 页码 73-84出版社
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/648556
关键词
competition experiment; heteromyopia; individual-based models; log-response ratio; neighborhood
资金
- Swiss National Science Foundation [3100A0-112523]
- Natural Environment Research Council (United Kingdom) [NE/D009367/1]
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/D009367/2, NE/D009367/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- NERC [NE/D009367/1, NE/D009367/2] Funding Source: UKRI
Plants stand still and interact with their immediate neighbors. Theory has shown that the distances over which these interactions occur may have important consequences for population and community dynamics. In particular, if intraspecific competition occurs over longer distances than interspecific competition (heteromyopia), coexistence can be promoted. We examined how intraspecific and interspecific competition scales with neighbor distance in a target-neighbor greenhouse competition experiment. Individuals from co-occurring forbs from calcareous grasslands were grown in isolation and with single conspecific or heterospecific neighbors at distances of 5, 10, or 15 cm (Plantago lanceolata vs. Plantago media and Hieracium pilosella vs. Prunella grandiflora). Neighbor effects were strong and declined with distance. Interaction distances varied greatly within and between species, but we found no evidence for heteromyopia. Instead, neighbor identity effects were mostly explained by relative size differences between target and neighbor. We found a complex interaction between final neighbor size and identity such that neighbor identity may become important only as the neighbor becomes very large compared with the target individual. Our results suggest that species-specific size differences between neighboring individuals determine both the strength of competitive interactions and the distance over which these interactions occur.
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