磷酸肌醇信号途径对青扦花粉萌发和花粉管发育的调控作用及芦苇叶细胞壁结构的生理生态学研究

植物在长期的进化过程中，已经对其生存环境具备了各种适应对策。放牧影响下草原植物的生态适应策略，决定了其是否能够忍耐或者适应放牧生境从而维持自身的生存和种群的延续。研究植食性动物对植物的影响有助于制定合理的放牧制度和草地利用方式，从而为防止草原退化和恢复退化草地提供重要的理论依据;同时研究植物对放牧的响应策略，对于草原生物多样性的保护和草原生物资源的合理利用具有重要的理论和实践意义。 本文以中科院内蒙古草原生态系统定位研究站放牧综合试验样地中的小叶锦鸡儿为主要研究对象。通过长期不同放牧强度的放牧试验和唾液涂抹等模拟试验，从形态学、有性生殖、种子萌发和遗传多样性等方面，探讨了小叶锦鸡儿对放牧家畜（绵羊）采食的生物学响应。本研究得到以下主要结论： 1. 通过小叶锦鸡儿形态和有性生殖的实验，可以看到放牧改变了该种植物的形态和生殖特性，不同放牧强度对其影响的程度是不相同的。在啃食压力下，小叶锦鸡儿的营养、生殖和防御之间存在消长关系。随着放牧强度的增加，小叶锦鸡儿对营养器官和有性生殖器官的投资均减少，而对防御器官的投资有增加的趋势，主要体现在：个体的小型化（植株高度、叶轴长度、小叶大小）和果荚数目及成熟种子数都随着放牧强度的增加而明显减少;物理性防御器官――刺，其密度和长度都明显的增加。同时，放牧也对植物花粉的品质产生了消极影响。 2. 放牧不仅影响了植物体本身的生物学特性，而且影响了子代的生物学特性。不同放牧强度下的植株产生的种子，其萌发速率明显不同。同时放牧强度和沙埋深度对小叶锦鸡儿的出苗率均具有显著影响，随着沙埋深度增加，出苗率明显降低，0～2cm是其适宜出苗的沙埋深度;浅层沙埋处理下，轻度放牧和重度放牧的出苗率差异显著。与轻度放牧相比，重牧条件下同一沙埋深度的种子出苗时间明显推迟;在相同放牧压力下，沙埋深度也影响了出苗时间。 3. 采食活动对植物本身的形态、生殖以及子代的萌发特性都产生了影响;通过AFLP实验证明了小叶锦鸡儿在长期的放牧历史活动中已经发生了遗传多样性的变化，重度放牧强度下的植株与轻度放牧条件下的植株具有相对较远的遗传距离，也就是说，小叶锦鸡儿种群的分化与放牧强度具有密切的关系。 4. 三种不同生活型植物（灌木-小叶锦鸡儿、半灌木-冷蒿和草本-羊草）对绵羊唾液涂抹的响应不同，刈割和涂抹绵羊唾液能够增加植物的净地上生物量，并促进植株增加地上部分的光合产物投资。同时表明，简单的机械剪除不能够真正反应放牧家畜采食所产生的生物学效应。

小叶锦鸡儿对不同放牧强度的生物学响应

植物在长期的进化过程中，已经对其生存环境具备了各种适应对策。放牧影响下草原植物的生态适应策略，决定了其是否能够忍耐或者适应放牧生境从而维持自身的生存和种群的延续。研究植食性动物对植物的影响有助于制定合理的放牧制度和草地利用方式，从而为防止草原退化和恢复退化草地提供重要的理论依据;同时研究植物对放牧的响应策略，对于草原生物多样性的保护和草原生物资源的合理利用具有重要的理论和实践意义。 　　本文以中科院内蒙古草原生态系统定位研究站放牧综合试验样地中的小叶锦鸡儿为主要研究对象。通过长期不同放牧强度的放牧试验和唾液涂抹等模拟试验，从形态学、有性生殖、种子萌发和遗传多样性等方面，探讨了小叶锦鸡儿对放牧家畜（绵羊）采食的生物学响应。本研究得到以下主要结论： 　　1. 通过小叶锦鸡儿形态和有性生殖的实验，可以看到放牧改变了该种植物的形态和生殖特性，不同放牧强度对其影响的程度是不相同的。在啃食压力下，小叶锦鸡儿的营养、生殖和防御之间存在消长关系。随着放牧强度的增加，小叶锦鸡儿对营养器官和有性生殖器官的投资均减少，而对防御器官的投资有增加的趋势，主要体现在：个体的小型化（植株高度、叶轴长度、小叶大小）和果荚数目及成熟种子数都随着放牧强度的增加而明显减少;物理性防御器官――刺，其密度和长度都明显的增加。同时，放牧也对植物花粉的品质产生了消极影响。 　　2. 放牧不仅影响了植物体本身的生物学特性，而且影响了子代的生物学特性。不同放牧强度下的植株产生的种子，其萌发速率明显不同。同时放牧强度和沙埋深度对小叶锦鸡儿的出苗率均具有显著影响，随着沙埋深度增加，出苗率明显降低，0～2cm是其适宜出苗的沙埋深度;浅层沙埋处理下，轻度放牧和重度放牧的出苗率差异显著。与轻度放牧相比，重牧条件下同一沙埋深度的种子出苗时间明显推迟;在相同放牧压力下，沙埋深度也影响了出苗时间。 　　3. 采食活动对植物本身的形态、生殖以及子代的萌发特性都产生了影响;通过AFLP实验证明了小叶锦鸡儿在长期的放牧历史活动中已经发生了遗传多样性的变化，重度放牧强度下的植株与轻度放牧条件下的植株具有相对较远的遗传距离，也就是说，小叶锦鸡儿种群的分化与放牧强度具有密切的关系。 　　4. 三种不同生活型植物（灌木-小叶锦鸡儿、半灌木-冷蒿和草本-羊草）对绵羊唾液涂抹的响应不同，刈割和涂抹绵羊唾液能够增加植物的净地上生物量，并促进植株增加地上部分的光合产物投资。同时表明，简单的机械剪除不能够真正反应放牧家畜采食所产生的生物学效应。 　

浑善达克沙地根茎克隆植物对去除枝叶的响应

过度放牧是导致浑善达克沙地荒漠化发展的重要原因之一。在该地区占据优势的根茎型克隆草本植物不仅被牲畜频繁地采食，而且也面临着频繁的沙埋和养分胁迫的干扰。通过克隆生长，这些根茎型植物的单个基株能够跨越异质性的资源斑块，同时也可能遭受局部的、非均匀性的采食或沙埋。克隆整合可能会作为一种补偿性机制促进被采食克隆部分或分株的恢复和生长，因而，能够缓解采食及其与环境因素（沙埋/养分胁迫）交互作用对克隆植物的影响。本文以浑善达克沙地草地典型的根茎型沙生植物种和草地植物种为实验材料，应用（野外和温室）实验生态学方法检验了克隆整合的这种效果。 在一个野外实验中，通过对共存在沙丘上的两种根茎型克隆植物沙地雀麦（Bromus ircutensis Kom.）和沙鞭（Psammochloa villosa (Trin.) Bor.），及两种非克隆植物褐沙蒿（Artemisia intramongolica H.C.Fu）和草木樨状黄芪（Astragalus melilotoides Pall.）的个体植株进行不同强度（0、50、90％）的枝叶去除处理，我们发现：50％和90％的枝叶去除增加了沙地雀麦和沙鞭的相对生长率（RGR）;而90％的枝叶去除显著减小了褐沙蒿和草木樨状黄芪的RGR。经两个多月处理后，与对照相比，去除枝叶的非克隆植物的地上生物量恢复的远不及克隆植物完全。这些结果表明克隆植物比共存的非克隆植物更能忍耐采食。在分株种群水平上开展的另外一个野外实验表明，在50％的去除强度下，根茎连接明显改善了沙鞭分株种群的表现，但对沙地雀麦分株种群没有显著影响。然而，在90％的去除强度下，根茎连接显著的改善了两种植物分株种群的表现，显示出克隆整合的重要作用。而且，与未剪除的分株种群相比，两种植物当遭受90％的去除强度后，其根茎保持连接的分株种群产生了更多而小的分株个体。 以羊草（Leymus chinensis (Trin.) Tzevl.）和赖草（Leymus secalinus (Georgi) Tzvel）的克隆片断为材料，通过两个温室实验研究了克隆整合对克隆植物忍受采食与沙埋/养分胁迫交互作用的影响。每个克隆片断由一个近端（发育上较老）分株和一个远端（发育上较年轻）分株组成。近端分株不进行胁迫处理，而远端分株进行重复去除 枝叶沙埋/养分胁迫处理;同时，切断或保持克隆片断的根茎连接。结果表明，单因素的干扰对两个种远端分株的影响较小。当遭受剪除处理后，低养供应的赖草远端分株显示出比高养条件下更强的生物量补偿能力。当两个种的远 端分株处于单因素胁迫时，根茎切断很少影响其生物量生产和新分株的形成;而当远端分株同时处于枝叶去除和沙 埋/养分胁迫下时，切断根茎对两个种远端分株的生物量和分株的产生造成了明显的负效果，表明克隆整合发挥了重 要的作用。但克隆整合并没有导致近端分株的显著损耗。 基于以上实验结果，我们得出：克隆整合可以明显提高浑善达克沙地根茎克隆植物应对枝叶去除，及其和沙埋/养分胁迫交互影响的能力，是克隆植物适应频繁干扰的沙地草地环境的重要对策之一。

Relationships among the contents of total phenolics, soluble carbohydrate, and free amino acids of 15 aquatic macrophytes

In order to examine how carbon and nitrogen status of a macrophyte may affect its total phenolics (TP) production, the contents of free amino acids (FAA), soluble carbohydrate (SC) and TP were examined in leaves of seven submersed, four floating-leaved, and four emergent macrophytes. The floating-leaved and emergent macrophytes had much higher contents of SC and TP than the submersed macrophytes. The contents of FAA were not significantly different among the submersed, floating-leaved, and emergent macrophytes. Correlations among the contents of FAA, SC, and TP indicated that the production of TP was more dependent on the SC content than on the FAA content.

Defensive and Sensory Chemical Ecology of Brown Algae

The ecological interaction of brown algae are important as these macroalgae are common and often keystone members in many benthic marine communities.This review highlights their chemical interactions,particularly with potential herbivores,but also with fouling oranganisms,with potential pathogens,with each other as gametes,and with their microenvironments when they are spores.Phlorotannins,which are phenolic compounds unique to brown algae,have been studied hesvily in many of these respects and sre highlightes here.This includes recent controversy about their roles as defences against herbivory,as well as new understanding of their roles in primary cellular functions that may,in many instances,be more important than ,and which at least have to be considered in convert with,any possible ecological functions.Brown algae have also been useful models for testing theoties about the evolution of and ecological constraints on chemical defence.Furthermore,their mocroscopic motile gametes and spores have the ability to react to their chemical environments behavirourally.

Response of Polygonum viviparum species and community level to long-term livestock grazing in alpine shrub meadow in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Grazing by domestic herbivores is generally recognized as a major ecological factor and an important evolutionary force in grasslands. Grazing has both extensive and profound effects on individual plants and communities. We investigated the response patterns of Polygonum viviparum species and the species diversity of an alpine shrub meadow in response to long-term livestock grazing by a field manipulative experiment controlling livestock numbers on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China. Here, we hypothesize that within a range of grazing pressure, grazing can alter relative allocation to different plant parts without changing total biomass for some plant species if there is life history trade-offs between plant traits. The same type of communities exposed to different grazing pressures may only alter relative species' abundances or species composition and not vary species diversity because plant species differ in resistant capability to herbivory. The results show that plant height and biomass of different organs differed among grazing treatments but total biomass remained constant. Biomass allocation and absolute investments to both reproduction and growth decreased and to belowground storage increased with increased grazing pressure, indicating the increasing in storage function was attained at a cost of reducing reproduction of bulbils and represented an optimal allocation and an adaptive response of the species to long-term aboveground damage. Moreover, our results showed multiform response types for either species groups or single species along the gradient of grazing intensity. Heavy grazing caused a 13.2% increase in species richness. There was difference in species composition of about 18%-20% among grazing treatment. Shannon-Wiener (H') diversity index and species evenness (E) index did not differ among grazing treatments. These results support our hypothesis.

Defoliation, nitrogen, and competition: effects on plant growth and resource allocation of Cleistogenes squarrosa and Artemisia frigida

Two species, Artemisia frigida Willd. (C-3, semishrub, and dominant on overgrazed sites) and Cleistogenes squarrosa (Trin.) Keng (C-4, perennial bunchgrass, and dominant or codominant on moderately grazed sites) were studied to determine the effects of defoliation, nitrogen (N) availability, competition, and their interactions on growth, biomass, and N allocation in a greenhouse experiment. The main treatments were: two nitrogen levels (NO = 0 mg N pot(-1), N1 = 60 mg N pot(-1)), two defoliation intensities (removing 60% of total aboveground biomass and no defoliation), and three competitive replacement series (monocultures of each species and mixtures at 0.5:0.5). Our results were inconsistent with our hypothesis on the adaptive mechanisms of A. frigida regarding the interactive effects of herbivory, N, and competition in determining its dominant position on overgrazed sites. Cleistogenes squarrosa will be replaced by A. frigida on over-grazed sites, although C. squarrosa had higher tolerance to defoliation than did A. frigida. Total biomass and N yield and N-15 recovery of C. squarrosa in mixed culture were consistently lower than in monocultures, whereas those of A. frigida grown in mixtures were consistently higher than in monocultures, suggesting higher competitive ability of A. frigida. Our results suggest that interspecific competitive ability may be of equal or greater importance than herbivory tolerance in determining herbivore-induced species replacement in semi-arid Inner Mongolian steppe. In addition, the dominance of A. frigida on overgrazed sites has been attributed to its ability to shift plant-plant interactions through (lap colonization, root niche differentiation, and higher resistance to water stress.

Morphological and reproductive response of Caragana microphylla to different stocking rates

Understanding the effect on host plants of defending against herbivores is important in grazing ecology and grassland management. In this study, the morphological and reproductive responses of Caragana microphylla Lam. to grazing sheep were investigated using a 15-year grazing experiment with six stocking rates in the Inner Mongolia steppe of China. Plant height, rachis length, leaflet size, and number of pods decreased significantly, whereas spine density and length increased significantly with increased stocking rate. Significant negative correlations were observed between production of vegetative and reproductive organs and defensive organs, indicating that it is costly for C. microphylla to defend against herbivores and that morphological miniaturization and a tradeoff between production and defense were main responses of C. microphylla to herbivores. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Effect of burrowing activity of root vole (Microtus oeconomus Pallas) on plant diversity in alpine meadow

Herbivory and burrowing activity of mammals may influence the species composition and diversity of plant communities. The effect of corridors and holes systems constructed by root vole (Microtus oeconomus Pallas) on the plant species diversity was studied in the habitat of high - mountain meadow (3250 in a.s.l in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China). By using grid method, these disturbances were studied on 16 plots (100 cm x 100 cm) distributed in 4 transects in studied area, in August 2000 and 2001. The disturbance intensity index, D, was calculated as the percent of the ground surface disturbed by voles in the study area. Plant species were identified and counted on the same plots. In total 46 plant species were identified - 39% of this number was considered as sensitive to the vole disturbances as their occurrence and/or abundance decreased along the disturbance intensity. Generally, a significantly negative correlation (r = - 0.911 P < 0.01) between vole aboveground disturbances and plant species diversity (H') was found. The results suggest that root vole ground disturbances, especially in the form of actively utilized holes and corridors have significantly negative influence on plant species diversity in high-mountain grassland habitat.