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Plant traits, : - Coggle Diagram
Plant traits
Physiological traits
Chemical traits
Venoms
Allelopathy
Alluring colours, odours
..> Palatability
Nutrient content
C/N
woodiness + sclerenchyma
(Decomposition rate)
Cell metaboly
C3 / C4 / CAM
Climatic niche
(We've got almost only C3 plants)
Phenological traits
Flowering time
Bud break
Shoot growth
Evergreen/deciduous
Allocation to shoots / roots / reproduction
Life cycle traits
Annual
Spring annual
Autumn annual
Year-round annual
Perennial
Biennial
Combined: tolerance to
Mowing
Herbivory
Fire
Chemicals
Salt
Ozone
Requirements for
Soil
Water
Nutrients
(Organic matter content)
(Soil porosity / air content)
Light
Temperature
Morphological traits
Root
Root system width
Root distribution
Specific root length
Depth
Diameter
Drough tolerance, competition for water, allocation for water taking capacity vs. shoot growth
Shoot
Bulbils and other vegetative propagules
Present/absent
Reproductive
Fruit
Dry
Fleshy
Seeds /(spores)
seed mass
terminal velocity
(Dispersal kernel)
seed shape
elaiosomes
myrmecochory
pappi
wind-dispersal
Dispersal vs. establishment
early- vs. late-successional
Seed bank longevity
Releasing height
Seed number
Fruit size and shape and weight
Fruit type (e.g. capsule)
Buoyancy
Flower
Pistil
Stamen
Petals
Sepals
Combined flower traits
Pollination strategy
Wind
Animals
Mammals
Birds
Insects
Bees
Butterflies
Diptera
Water
Bud
Stems
Ramification
Height
Woodiness
Diameter
Leaves
SLA
Leaf morphology
Leaf progression
Leaf shape
Leaf angle
Leaf blade / petiole
Stomata (e.g. density)
Trichomes (anywhere)
temperature / light niche
Herbivory defence
Spikes
Plant life forms (Raunkiaer)
Phanerophytes
Trees, shrubs, buds > 50 cm
Chamaephytes
0<buds<50 cm
Hemicryptophytes
perenniating parts ("buds") at surface
geophytes
underground
Terophytes
e.g. annual
helophytes
water plants with shoots over water
hydrophytes
water plants
(Vines, epiphytes, hemi-epiphytes)
Correlations
Niches
Plant strategies
Successional stages
r vs. K strategists
individual environmental gradients
Succulent / non-succulent
Drought tolerance
Which of these traits are essential to analyse?
The traits that somehow affect the plants: the stronger the effect, the better
Traits that affect plant niche / habitat adaptation
productivity gradient
SLA
plant height
root system depth
Traits that affect plant dispersal
terminal velocity
seed mass
dispersal vector
dispersal structures
Traits that affect reproduction success
pollination vector
flowering time
Phylogenetic relationships
--> Plant niche
Trait plasticity!
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