Seed bank size and composition of<i>Betula nana</i>,<i>Vaccinium uliginosum</i>, and<i>Campanula rotundifolia</i>habitats in Svalbard and northern Norway
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Abstract
The rare thermophilous species in the arctic archipelago of Svalbard are probably relicts from previous warmer periods and may be unable to reproduce sexually under the present climatic conditions. Germination of seeds, seed banks, and vegetative sprouts were studied in one Betula nana L., one Vaccinium uliginosum L., and two Campanula rotundifolia L. habitats in Svalbard. For comparison, one islet and three alpine habitats in northern Norway were studied. In each habitat, 50 soil cores (9.6 cm2) were collected and placed in a phytotron for germination tests. In Svalbard, no germinable seeds or seed bank of the three species were observed, whereas vegetative sprout densities were 83, 1060, and 211060/m2for B. nana, V. uliginosum, and C. rotundifolia, respectively. In northern Norway, germination percentages of the collected seeds were 59, 1027, and 1540%, seed bank densities of seedlings 212765, 21187, and 21374/m2, and vegetative sprouts densities 94206, 56674, and 94711/m2for B. nana, V. uliginosum, and C. rotundifolia, respectively. Less thermophilous plant species produced germinable seeds in Svalbard, as 12475405 seedlings/m2of 26 species germinated from the soil cores. In comparison, 53229626 seedlings/m2of 43 species germinated in soil cores from the alpine habitats and 3534 seedlings/m2of 26 species from the islet habitat. The results suggest that the most thermophilous species in Svalbard rarely produce germinable seeds under the present climatic conditions.Key words: arcticalpine, Betula nana, Campanula rotundifolia, seed bank, sexual reproduction, thermophily, Vaccinium uliginosum.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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