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Plant Ecology - Chapter 5 Populations
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Page 1: Plant Ecology - Chapter 5 Populations. Population Growth Births Deaths Immigration Emigration.

Plant Ecology - Chapter 5

Populations

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Population Growth

BirthsDeathsImmigrationEmigration

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Population Growth

Genets - genetically distinct individualsRamets - physiologically independent but not genetically distinct individuals

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Population Growth

“Birth” - seed production, vegetative clones, mature pollen grains (gametophyte)?

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Population Growth

“Individual” - distinctly separate plants (unitary) or interconnected, related individuals (modular)

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Population Structure

Population size important, but so is the distribution of individuals among different ages/sizes/stagesHave differing importance to population

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Population Structure

Animal populations usually age-structuredAge determines role, importance to populationAge not as important for plants - size is far more importantPlant populations stage-structured

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Population Structure

Plant stages frequently based on size - number of leaves, mass, height categories, diameter categoriesFrequently impossible to determine plant age

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Population Structure

Plants have very flexible growth patternsCan lose parts and shrink from year to year, go through years of dormancy, or not appear above ground in a given year

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Population Structure

Stage structuring difficult under these circumstancesPlants can advance directly through stages, remain at some stage, or undergo reversions

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Population Structure

Plant ecologists must keep track of multiple stages and all possible transitions between them

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Population Structure

In structured populations, individuals of different stages make different contributions to future population growthPre-repro, repro, post-repro

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Life Cycle Graphs

Summaries of transitionsbetween stages

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Life Tables - Cohort

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Matrix ModelsCombine life cycle graphs with life table datato understand which stage classes have thestrongest effects on population growth

Which stage needs protection? Which stageclass is most affected by fire? Which stagelimits population growth?

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Matrix ModelsCan be used to predict age-based quantities fromstage-based data

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Long-Lived Plants

Problems studying long-lived plantsLonger life span than researchers!Year-to-year variation in environmental conditions, longer intervals between censuses - misses younger plants

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Long-Lived Plants

Static life tables problematic - assumptions such as stable age structure impossible to justifyIncorporate cyclic variability (e.g., pest outbreaks)Compare old to new photographs

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Variable Population Growth

Matrix modeling generalizations allow for estimates not possible two decades agoLong-run population growth ratesExtinction probabilitiesMinimum viable population sizes


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