J 2018

Differential role of a persistent seed bank for genetic variation in early vs. late successional stages

SCHULZ, Benjamin, Walter DURKA, Jiří DANIHELKA a Rolf Lutz ECKSTEIN

Základní údaje

Originální název

Differential role of a persistent seed bank for genetic variation in early vs. late successional stages

Autoři

SCHULZ, Benjamin (276 Německo), Walter DURKA (276 Německo), Jiří DANIHELKA (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí) a Rolf Lutz ECKSTEIN (752 Švédsko)

Vydání

PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, 2018, 1932-6203

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

10611 Plant sciences, botany

Stát vydavatele

Spojené státy

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 2.776

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14310/18:00105043

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

UT WoS

000454416400098

Klíčová slova anglicky

Viola elatior; ecology; genetic variation; seed bank; succesional stage

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 26. 3. 2019 10:33, Mgr. Lucie Jarošová, DiS.

Anotace

V originále

Persistent seed banks are predicted to have an important impact on population genetic processes by increasing effective population size and storing past genetic diversity. Accordingly, persistent seed banks may buffer genetic effects of disturbance, fragmentation and/or selection. However, empirical studies surveying the relationship between aboveground and seed bank genetics under changing environments are scarce. Here, we compared genetic variation of aboveground and seed bank cohorts in 15 populations of the partially cleistogamous Viola elatior in two contrasting early and late successional habitats characterized by strong differences in light-availability and declining population size. Using AFLP markers, we found significantly higher aboveground than seed bank genetic diversity in early successional meadow but not in late successional woodland habitats. Moreover, individually, three of eight woodland populations even showed higher seed bank than aboveground diversity. Genetic differentiation among populations was very strong (ST = 0.8), but overall no significant differentiation could be detected between above ground and seed bank cohorts. Small scale spatial genetic structure was generally pronounced but was much stronger in meadow (Sp-statistic: aboveground: 0.60, seed bank: 0.32) than in woodland habitats (aboveground: 0.11; seed bank: 0.03). Our findings indicate that relative seed bank diversity (i.e. compared to aboveground diversity) increases with ongoing succession and despite decreasing population size. As corroborated by markedly lower small-scale genetic structure in late successional habitats, we suggest that the observed changes in relative seed bank diversity are driven by an increase of outcrossing rates. Persistent seed banks in Viola elatior hence will counteract effects of drift and selection, and assure a higher chance for the species’ long term persistence, particularly maintaining genetic variation in declining populations of late successional habitats and thus enhancing success rates of population recovery after disturbance events.