Abstract：
:C(4) plants are rare in cool climates, an ecological pattern attributable to their poor photosynthetic performance at low temperatures relative to C(3) species. However, some C(4) species are able to persist at high latitudes and high elevations, possibly due to the characteristics of the particular microsites they inhabit in these otherwise unfavourable environments. One such species is Muhlenbergia glomerata, which occurs above 60 degrees N in Canada and is found in the atypical C(4) habitat of boreal fens. In this study, we evaluate how microsite features affect the success of M. glomerata in boreal fens. We surveyed 19 populations across northern Ontario during the summers of 1999 and 2000. The ground coverage by woody vegetation was the most important parameter affecting the presence or absence of M. glomerata. Woody plants covered over 50% of the ground area in plots where M. glomerata is absent, but less than 20% where it is present. The minimum light intensity threshold for the presence of the C(4) species was about 32% of full-sunlight at plant height. Surprisingly, in boreal fens M. glomerata was largely restricted to the wetter moss hollows, rather than occurring on the dry hummocks where its greater water use efficiency might have been advantageous. Woody species dominated the hummocks, but were uncommon in the hollows. In these cool northern climates M. glomerata apparently persists because sufficient periods of temperatures favourable to C(4) photosynthesis occur, but this persistence likely requires some factor that suppresses the woody vegetation.
journal_name
Oecologiajournal_title
Oecologiaauthors
Kubien DS,Sage RFdoi
10.1007/s00442-003-1369-2subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2003-11-01 00:00:00pages
330-7issue
3eissn
0029-8549issn
1432-1939journal_volume
137pub_type
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