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Environmental Constraints: Water, Temperature, Wind, Salt, And Toxins Flashcards

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Examples of abiotic stress factors

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temperatures, water, radiation, chemical stress, mechanical stress

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Drought avoidance

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desert annuals complete life cycle rapidly after rain (live fast die young)

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Drought deciduous

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lose leaves during dry season, typically expansive belowground

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Drougt tolerant adaptations

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Invest heavily in root systems
more but smaller stomata
thick and tough leaves
enter domat state during drought
increase solutes to increase osmotic potential

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Flooding adaptations

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switch to glycolysis to avoid oxygen requirements during ATP synthesis
roots may have aerenhyma (hollow chambers that allow oxygen to flow through plants

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Temperature classifications for plants

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Chilling sensitive
Freezing sensitive
Freezing tolerant

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Chilling sensitive

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injury below 10-15 C. Change in membrane stucture inhibits cellular function

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Freezing sensitive

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Injury below 0 C. Creation of ice crystals cause physical damage to cells

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Freezing tolerant

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supercooling prevents cellular contents from freezing up to a point

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What determines distribution of species (temp)

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Huge variation in temperature as a function of latitude and altitude

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Dwarfing

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Decreased investment in vunerable woody areas, causing plant to grow closer to the ground

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Leaf adaptations to cold temperatures

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thicker, tougher leaves
waxy coating to reduce water loss
reduction in photosynthesis

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Acclimation response to cool temps

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change in fatty acid membrane to increase chilling resistance
change chemical compensation in leaves to avoid freezing
enter dormant state with senescence of leaves

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dominant type of trees in lack of freezing lands

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broad evergreen leaves

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dominant type of trees in freezing winters

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deciduous broad-leaved species

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dominant type of trees in freezing temps with short growing season

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evergreen coniferdominance

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Primary effect of heat on photosynthesis

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effeciency of photosynthesis declines above 25 C or C3 plants (slows)

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18
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How is heat injury tied with water limitation?

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temp greater than 40 C cause plants to cease transpiration cooling to conserve water

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How do plants cool down?

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Transpiration cooling
long wave radiation emission
convective cooling
heliotrophic sun tracking
life history strategies to avoid hottest part of year

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Physical damage from wind

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windthrow
abrasion by windborne particles
“flagging” shape in woody plants (lost branches on one side)
desiccation by dry winds

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Adaptations to wind

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dwarfing/cushion growth forms
hairy leaf surfaces or thick waxy cuticle to protect more sensitive parts from flying particles

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Ionic toxicity

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Injury from osmotic effect or direct toxic effect of ions caused by salts

23
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Example of plant with salinity resistance

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Salt cedar (salt accumulates in foliar gland and then are deposited on soil surface)

24
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A plant adapted to salinity is often also adapted to _________

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drought

25
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Common source of acute short term toxicity

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acid deposition from fossil fuel combustian

26
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What does acute short term toxiticy cause?

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direct injury to leaf surface
acidified soils
aluminum toxicity (acid rain)
loss of important cations

27
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Ecological impacts of toxicity

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chronic/long-term toxin exposure can lead to adaptation
serpentine soils lack nutrients and often have high nickle, cobalt, and chromium concentrations
diverse endemic flora

28
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trade off

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whn increasing performance of one feature, organism must decrease another

29
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Examples of important tradeoffs

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annual vs perenial
evergreen vs deciduous
growth rate vs defense
seed size vsseed dispersial
seed size vs seed number

30
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Functional types (strategies)

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gymnosperms
angiosperms
dicots
monocots

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Life history

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organism’s lifetime pattern of growth, development, and reproduction
common history life patterns recognized as functional types

32
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Functional groups

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graminoids
forbs
shrubs
trees
vines
nitrogen fixers

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Graminoids

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grasses and grasslike plants
monocots with extensive fiberous root systems
imprecise foragers
renew above-ground biomass annually

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Forbs

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Herbaceous dicots with fibrous and/or taproots with 2 common growth forms prostrate/rosette and erect

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Prostrate/rosette

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grows close to ground and only grows up when it is going to flower

36
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Erect

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shoots up in stem, is tall, and has lots of leaves coming off stem

37
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Shrubs

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Plants that accumulate above-ground woody tissue and is typically around 4.5m tall

38
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trees

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tall woody plants that are better at competing for light than shrubs but require more resource avability. Typically taller than 4.5m

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vines

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often woody climbing plants that are unable to support themselves due to thin stems

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Nitrogen fixers

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fix nitrogen through rhizobia or other bacterial associations and can exhibit multiple forms

41
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competitive CSR classification

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Need high nutrient levels
fast growing
utilize resource avalibility

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stress tolerant CSR classification

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slow growing to avoid nutrient loss
can tolerate low nutrients and harsh environments
maximize traits to maintain structure (not to grow quick)

43
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ruderal CSR classification

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fast growing but not competitive
finish life cycle fast
rapidly colonize sites
maximize seed output
often annual weeds

44
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How does the CSR triangle seperate plants?

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along gradient of competitive intensity, environmental stress, and disturbance frequency/intensity

45
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what drives roots vs shoots allocations?

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relative requirements for soil resources and light

46
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why is total root biomass so much higher in grasslands?

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More perenial species, so they have more time to accumulate roots

47
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Fast-slow economic spectrum in leaves

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Invest more in leaves and they will be more efficent/last longer, but u will grow slower
Invest minimally in your leaves and you can grow fast, but leaves will be more suseptible to damage and resource leaking

48
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Height trade off

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taller plants are better at capturing light, but more suseptable to damage

49
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seed trade off

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bigger seeds allow better establishment, but dont disperse as far

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