Histories
EMMANUEL R.
GUIWAN
MAEd-ES
September 28, 2019
Plant Life Histories
Plant Strategies
• Plant strategies include mechanisms & response
s
plants use to reproduce, defend, survive, & compe
te
on the landscape.
• Plants must make trade-offs when responding to
their environment. These trade-offs & responses la
y
Plant Strategies
J.P.Grime (1977,1979)
• He proposed that variation in
environmental conditions has led to the
development of distinctive strategies or lif
e
histories among plants.
J.P.Grime (1977,1979)
Two Factor Gradients
• The 2 variables that he selected as most importa
nt
in exerting selective pressure on plants were:
Intensity of Disturbanc
Intensity of Stress
e
Two Factor Gradients
STRESSES INCLUDE FACTORS SUCH AS THE
AVAILABILITY OF WATER, NUTRIENTS, AND LIGHT, ALONG WIT
H GROWTH-INHIBITING INFLUENCES LIKE TEMPERATURE AND
TOXINS.
Bonfire Moss
Annual Meadow-Grass (Funaria hygrometrica)
Arabidopsis thaliana
Stress-Tolerant
Stress-Tolerators are more tolerant to t
he environmental extremes that
occur.
They can live in high stress but low
disturbance.
Evergreen, They grow slowly,
Unpalatable
Focus: Maintenance & Defenses
(Anti-Herbivory)
Stress-Tolerators
Beech Tree
Common Dog-Violet
Alpine Azalea (Kalmia procumbens) (Viola riviniana)
Competitive
Competitors occupy environments
where disturbance intensity is low an
d
the intensity of stress is also low.
High growth rate = ↑Competition
Focus: Competition for Resources
Competitors
Japanese Knotweed
(Fallopia japonica)
Birch Tree
Grime's C-S-R Triangle
C
John
Philip
Grime,
1979
S R
r and K Selection vs. CSR Triangl
e
According to Grime:
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Plant Life
Histories
EMMANUEL R.
GUIWAN
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