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Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
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Life history stage (growth stage)≈ life cycle (on ecology)A system of interrelated adaptive traits forming a set of reproductive tactics There are various definitions on each life history stage, depnding on research objectives. This page is for terrestrial seed-plant community ecology. StageGrowth stages on terrestrial seed plants. Note that the definitions of seedling and junenile are totally fuzzy.
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ExamplesAnnuals (一年生)completing its life cycle from germination to the production of seeds within one growing season
Perennials (多年生, based on age)living more than two years
![]() (DeGasperis & Motzkin 2007) Windows of opportunityTiming for establishing the life-history stage |
The combination of three strategies of plants:
Productivity Low High Disturbance High - Ruderals (R) Low Stress tolerators (S) Competitors (C) Competitors (C)Plants have high competition ability when low stress and disturbance are given. The high competition ability is evaluated by fast growth rate and high productivity.Stress tolerators (S)Plants adapt to high stress and low disturbance, by slow growth rates, long-lived leaves, and high nutrient retention rate. These are represented by species growing in alpine, arid, or sprpentine habitats.Ruderals (R)Species favor disturbance with low stress, and are fast-growing. Plants that have adapted this strategy are often found colonizing recently disturbed land, and are often annuals. |
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periodic plant and animal life cycle events
Ex. seedd germination, leaf flushing, flower production, defoliation Spring ephemeral (春植物)Producing flowers immediately after snowmelt and completing the life-cycle by early summer
be perennial that can reproduce by underground organs in each spring soon after snow melting ![]() Fig. Seasonal changes in light intensity on the forest floor of deciduous and evergreen forests |
Representative speciesAdonis ramosa (フクジュソウ), Adoxa moschatellina (レンプクソウ), Allium monanthum (ヒメニラ), Amana edulis (アマナ), A. erythronioides (ヒロハノアマナ), Anemone debilis (ヒメイチゲ), A. flaccida (ニリンソウ), A. nikoensis (イチリンソウ), A. pseudoaltaica (キクザキイチゲ), A. soyensis (エゾイチゲ), Erythronium japonicum (カタクリ), Trillium smallii (コジマエンレイソウ), Soldanella alpina L. (イワカガミダマシ, alpine snowball)Five species often shown in my lectures for international students
Trillium kamtschaticum (オオバナノエンレイソウ) |
[ reproduction ]
vegetative stage = often immature stage ↔ reproductive stage = mature stage, anyway sex ratio: polygamy (多系), vegetative propagation, monogamy Sexual form
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Recombination system, res (組み換えシステム)Maximum res: open res (開放型組み換え), restricted res (制限型組み換え), colsed res (閉鎖型組み換え)Maximum replication
Open res: wide allogamy 1. Factors controlling the amount of recombination per gernerations; control operative at meiosis
a. chromosome number
d. brdding system j. length of generation [ cytogenetics ] Sex determinationSex chromosome |