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DOI10.1111/j.1365-2435.2007.01270.x
Carbon dioxide uptake, water relations and drought survival for Dudleya saxosa, the ’rock live-forever’, growing in small soil volumes
Nobel, P. S.; Zutta, B. R.
通讯作者Nobel, P. S.
来源期刊FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY
ISSN0269-8463
出版年2007
卷号21期号:4页码:698-704
英文摘要

1. Although many plants grow in rock crevices and other regions of small soil volume, including over 20 000 epiphytic and hemi-epiphytic species, analyses of the actual soil volume occupied, the water availability in that soil, the water-storage capacity in the shoots and underground organs, and the photosynthetic pathway utilized have rarely been combined.


2. Dudleya saxosa (M.F. Jones) Britton and Rose (Crassulaceae), growing in the Sonoran Desert, has very shallow roots that occupied soil volumes averaging only 43 x 10(-6) m(3) per medium-sized plant. This volume of soil can hold about the same amount of water (10 g) as can be stored in the leaves, corm and roots combined (11 g), but at a sufficiently high water potential for transfer to the plant for less than 1 week after a substantial rainfall.


3. About 80% of the net carbon dioxide uptake by D. saxosa over a 24-h period occurred during the daytime (C-3) under wet conditions, the daily total decreasing by 34% and the pattern shifting to nocturnal net CO2 uptake (CAM) after 46 days’ drought. Seventy-seven days’ drought eliminated its daily net CO2 uptake.


4. Stomatal frequency was only 67 mm(-2) on the adaxial (upper) surface and twofold lower on the abaxial surface. The cuticle was thick, 34 mu m for the adaxial surface. Leaves had 24 mesophyll cell layers, leading to a high mesophyll cell surface area per unit leaf area of 142.


5. The three leaf anatomical features plus utilization of CAM increased net CO2 uptake per unit of water transpired, and helped D. saxosa thrive in a small soil volume, with the underground corm being a major supplier of water to the succulent leaves during 2.5 months of drought. The maximum water-holding capacity of the soil explored by the roots closely matched the maximum water-holding capacity of the plant, reflecting the conservative strategy used by D. saxosa in a stressful semi-arid environment.


英文关键词corm Crassulacean acid metabolism cuticle stomata water potential
类型Article
语种英语
国家USA
收录类别SCI-E
WOS记录号WOS:000247905700009
WOS关键词CRASSULACEAN ACID METABOLISM ; NORTHWESTERN SONORAN DESERT ; PLANT ; ROOT ; CAM ; TEMPERATURE ; SUCCULENTS ; MOUNTAINS ; PATTERNS ; FORESTS
WOS类目Ecology
WOS研究方向Environmental Sciences & Ecology
来源机构University of California, Los Angeles
资源类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/154245
作者单位(1)Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
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Nobel, P. S.,Zutta, B. R.. Carbon dioxide uptake, water relations and drought survival for Dudleya saxosa, the ’rock live-forever’, growing in small soil volumes[J]. University of California, Los Angeles,2007,21(4):698-704.
APA Nobel, P. S.,&Zutta, B. R..(2007).Carbon dioxide uptake, water relations and drought survival for Dudleya saxosa, the ’rock live-forever’, growing in small soil volumes.FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY,21(4),698-704.
MLA Nobel, P. S.,et al."Carbon dioxide uptake, water relations and drought survival for Dudleya saxosa, the ’rock live-forever’, growing in small soil volumes".FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY 21.4(2007):698-704.
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