Masting, fire‐stimulated flowering, and the evolutionary ecology of synchronized reproduction
Masting, fire‐stimulated flowering, and the evolutionary ecology of synchronized reproduction
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桅杆、火刺激开花以及同步繁殖的进化生态学
DOI：
10.1002/ecy.4261
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发表时间：
2024
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影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
Wagenius, Stuart
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作者：
Beck, Jared J.;McKone, Mark J.;Wagenius, Stuart
在世界范围内，长寿命植物的同步偶发繁殖影响着生态相互作用、生态系统动力学和进化过程。两个活跃的科学领域研究了这种同步繁殖的原因和后果：密集和火刺激开花领域。虽然以前已经注意到桅杆和火刺激开花之间的相似之处，但这些历史上独立的领域之间很少有对话。我们预测，这些领域的综合将有助于对同步繁殖的原因和后果有新的认识。本文利用两个案例研究和1870种植物的数据库，简要回顾了火激开花和火激开花之间的相似之处，以便在方法、概念、地理、分类和系统发育方面进行比较。我们确定了未来研究的途径，并描述了与合成相关的三个关键机会。首先，这些历史上独立领域的经验研究在分类和地理上的互补性突出了对多年生植物同步繁殖的全球模式和后果进行更一般推断的潜力。其次，马斯汀完善的评估适应性假设的概念框架可以帮助指导火激物种的实证研究，并对火激开花的进化生态学进行更有力的推断。第三，对火灾刺激物种繁殖变异的实验操作为实证研究同步繁殖背后的生态和进化过程的基础问题提供了独特的机会。这些领域的综合及其互补的见解提供了一个独特的机会来推进我们对多年生植物同步繁殖的进化生态学的理解。
Synchronized episodic reproduction among long‐lived plants shapes ecological interactions, ecosystem dynamics, and evolutionary processes worldwide. Two active scientific fields investigate the causes and consequences of such synchronized reproduction: the fields of masting and fire‐stimulated flowering. While parallels between masting and fire‐stimulated flowering have been previously noted, there has been little dialogue between these historically independent fields. We predict that the synthesis of these fields will facilitate new insight into the causes and consequences of synchronized reproduction. Here we briefly review parallels between masting and fire‐stimulated flowering, using two case studies and a database of 1870 plant species to facilitate methodological, conceptual, geographical, taxonomic, and phylogenetic comparisons. We identify avenues for future research and describe three key opportunities associated with synthesis. First, the taxonomic and geographic complementarity of empirical studies from these historically independent fields highlights the potential to derive more general inferences about global patterns and consequences of synchronized reproduction in perennial plants. Second, masting's well developed conceptual framework for evaluating adaptive hypotheses can help guide empirical studies of fire‐stimulated species and enable stronger inferences about the evolutionary ecology of fire‐stimulated flowering. Third, experimental manipulation of reproductive variation in fire‐stimulated species presents unique opportunities to empirically investigate foundational questions about ecological and evolutionary processes underlying synchronized reproduction. Synthesis of these fields and their complementary insights offers a unique opportunity to advance our understanding of the evolutionary ecology of synchronized reproduction in perennial plants.