PMID- 27995703
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20180305
LR  - 20180305
IS  - 1438-8677 (Electronic)
IS  - 1435-8603 (Linking)
VI  - 19
IP  - 3
DP  - 2017 May
TI  - Shade tolerance and herbivory are associated with RGR of tree species via 
      different functional traits.
PG  - 413-419
LID - 10.1111/plb.12534 [doi]
AB  - Relative growth rate (RGR) plays an important role in plant adaptation to the 
      light environment through the growth potential/survival trade-off. RGR is a 
      complex trait with physiological and biomass allocation components. It has been 
      argued that herbivory may influence the evolution of plant strategies to cope 
      with the light environment, but little is known about the relation between 
      susceptibility to herbivores and growth-related functional traits. Here, we 
      examined in 11 evergreen tree species from a temperate rainforest the association 
      between growth-related functional traits and (i) species' shade-tolerance, and 
      (ii) herbivory rate in the field. We aimed at elucidating the differential 
      linkage of shade and herbivory with RGR via growth-related functional traits. We 
      found that RGR was associated negatively with shade-tolerance and positively with 
      herbivory rate. However, herbivory rate and shade-tolerance were not 
      significantly related. RGR was determined mainly by photosynthetic rate (A(max) ) 
      and specific leaf area (SLA). Results suggest that shade tolerance and herbivore 
      resistance do not covary with the same functional traits. Whereas shade-tolerance 
      was strongly related to A(max) and to a lesser extent to leaf mass ratio (LMR) 
      and dark respiration (R(d) ), herbivory rate was closely related to allocation 
      traits (SLA and LMR) and slightly associated with protein content. The effects of 
      low light on RGR would be mediated by A(max) , while the effects of herbivory on 
      RGR would be mediated by SLA. Our findings suggest that shade and herbivores may 
      differentially contribute to shape RGR of tree species through their effects on 
      different resource-uptake functional traits.
CI  - (c) 2016 German Botanical Society and The Royal Botanical Society of the 
      Netherlands.
FAU - Salgado-Luarte, C
AU  - Salgado-Luarte C
AD  - Departamento de Biologia, Universidad de La Serena, Casilla La Serena, Chile.
FAU - Gianoli, E
AU  - Gianoli E
AD  - Departamento de Biologia, Universidad de La Serena, Casilla La Serena, Chile.
AD  - Departamento de Botanica, Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20170105
PL  - England
TA  - Plant Biol (Stuttg)
JT  - Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany)
JID - 101148926
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - Chile
MH  - Herbivory/*physiology
MH  - Plant Leaves/physiology
MH  - Rainforest
MH  - Species Specificity
MH  - Trees/*growth & development/physiology
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - RGR
OT  - SLA
OT  - Functional traits
OT  - herbivory
OT  - photosynthesis
OT  - shade tolerance
EDAT- 2016/12/21 06:00
MHDA- 2018/03/06 06:00
CRDT- 2016/12/21 06:00
PHST- 2016/12/09 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2016/12/12 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2016/12/21 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2018/03/06 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2016/12/21 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1111/plb.12534 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Plant Biol (Stuttg). 2017 May;19(3):413-419. doi: 10.1111/plb.12534. Epub 2017 
      Jan 5.