| The macroecology of spines on woody plants | |
Tomlinson, Kyle W.; Yu, Fei3; Wang, Xiaomao; Yao, Xin2 ; Yu, Chih-Chieh; Charles-Dominique, Tristan; Anest, Artemis6,7; Zhao, Yiran; Prasetyo Agung, Ade7; Adi Putra, Adek7; Lapuz, R. Sedricke; Lefebvre, Theodore1; Davies, T. Jonathan; Hempson, Gareth P.; Bezeng, Bezeng S.; Daru, Barnabas H.; Kabongo, Ronny M.; Maurin, Olivier16,17; Muasya, A. Muthama; van Der Bank, Michelle11; Bond, William J.; Armani, Mohammed19,20; Gelin, Uriel1,21
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| 2025 | |
| Source Publication | BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS
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| ISSN | 1464-7931 |
| Pages | - |
| Abstract | Spines are a major ecological innovation supporting plant defence and diversification. Spine anatomy is diverse, having arisen in multiple plant lineages from many different plant organs and parts, which may differ in relative advantages across environmental gradients. Systematic analyses of the correlates of spiny plant diversity are limited, but climate and soil properties may be important. We analysed spatial patterns of the proportional richness of spiny woody plant species (fraction of total woody species richness) and the proportional richness of species with particular spine types (fraction of richness of spiny plants) across three regions with high plant geolocational data density spanning three continents, China (Asia), South Africa (Africa), and Australia. Spiny plants accounted for 12% of woody species, but there are strong phylogenetic biases in the evolution of spiny lineages and lineages bearing different spine types. The proportion of spiny plants increased towards drier environments and higher soil clay contents, and decreased towards soils with greater total N. Species bearing different spine types appear to be distributed differently across climate and soil gradients, suggesting trade-offs across productivity gradients, specialization for climate space, and constraints on environmental adaptability. The spatial richness of spiny plants was positively correlated with estimated historical richness of large herbivorous mammals (body mass >20 kg, diet >90% plant material), and species bearing different spine types also mostly show positive relationships with mammal richness. Plants with spines appear to be advantaged over non-spiny species when exposed to high mammal browsing pressure in arid environments or over certain soil conditions, and species bearing different spine types are differentially advantaged across climate and soil gradients. |
| Keyword | biodiversity functional traits plant architecture plant defence plant-environment relationships prickles spines thorns |
| Subject Area | Biology |
| DOI | 10.1111/brv.70051 |
| Indexed By | SCI |
| Language | 英语 |
| WOS ID | WOS:001546189600001 |
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| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | https://ir.xtbg.ac.cn/handle/353005/15596 |
| Collection | 2012年后新成立研究组 |
| Affiliation | 1.Xishuangbanna Trop Bot Garden, Ctr Integrat Conservat, Mengla 666303, Yunnan, Peoples R China 2.Xishuangbanna Trop Bot Garden, Yunnan Key Lab Conservat Trop Rainforests & Asian, Mengla 666303, Yunnan, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Conservat Biol, Core Bot Gardens, Menglun 666303, Yunnan, Peoples R China 4.Guizhou Normal Univ, Sch Chem & Mat Sci, Guiyang 550025, Guizhou, Peoples R China 5.Chinese Acad Sci, Xishuangbanna Trop Bot Garden, Yunnan Key Lab Forest Ecosyst Stabil & Global Chan, Mengla 666303, Yunnan, Peoples R China 6.Sorbonne Univ, Ctr Natl Rech Sci CNRS, 4 Pl Jussieu, F-75005 Paris, France 7.Univ Montpellier, AMAP, CIRAD, CNRS,INRAE,IRD, Montpellier, France 8.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, 19A Yuquan Rd, Beijing 10049, Peoples R China 9.Univ Hong Kong, Sch Biol Sci, Pokfulam Rd, Hong Kong, Peoples R China 10.Univ British Columbia, Dept Bot, 2212 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada 11.Univ British Columbia, Dept Bot & Forest & Conservat Sci, 2212 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada 12.Univ Johannesburg, African Ctr DNA Barcoding, Dept Bot & Plant Biotechnol, POB 524,Auckland Pk 2006, ZA-2006 Johannesburg, South Africa 13.Hempson, Gareth P.] Univ Glasgow, Sch Biodivers One Hlth & Vet Med, Ecol & Environm Change, Graham Kerr Bldg,Sci Way, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland 14.Bezeng, Bezeng S.] Univ South Africa, Dept Life & Consumer Sci, Florida Campus, Roodepoort, South Africa 15.Daru, Barnabas H.] Stanford Univ, Dept Biol, Stanford, CA 94305 USA 16.Kabongo, Ronny M.] South African Natl Biodivers Inst, POB 754, ZA-0001 Pretoria, South Africa 17.Royal Bot Gardens Kew, Richmond TW9 3AE, Surrey, England 18.Meise Bot Garden, B-1860 Meise, Belgium 19.Muasya, A. Muthama; Bond, William J.] Univ Cape Town, Dept Biol Sci, ZA-7701 Cape Town, South Africa 20.Yale Univ, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, New Haven, CT 06511 USA 21.KNUST, Coll Agr & Nat Resources, AK-3851973 Kumasi, Ghana 22.Aarhus Univ, Ctr Biodivers Dynam Changing World BIOCHANGE, Dept Biol, Sect Ecoinformat & Biodivers, Aarhus, Denmark |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Tomlinson, Kyle W.,Yu, Fei,Wang, Xiaomao,et al. The macroecology of spines on woody plants[J]. BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS,2025:-. |
| APA | Tomlinson, Kyle W..,Yu, Fei.,Wang, Xiaomao.,Yao, Xin.,Yu, Chih-Chieh.,...&Gelin, Uriel.(2025).The macroecology of spines on woody plants.BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS,-. |
| MLA | Tomlinson, Kyle W.,et al."The macroecology of spines on woody plants".BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS (2025):-. |
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