Bet Hedging Is Not Sufficient to Explain Germination Patterns of a Winter Annual Plant
AbstractBet hedging consists of life history strategies that buffer against environmental variability by trading off immediate and long-term fitness. Delayed germination in annual plants is a classic example of bet hedging and is often invoked to explain low germination fractions. We examined whether bet hedging explains low and variable germination fractions among 20 populations of the winter annual plant Clarkia xantiana ssp. xantiana that experience substantial variation in reproductive success among years. Leveraging 15 years of demographic monitoring and 3 years of field germination experiments, we assessed the fitness consequences of seed banks and compared optimal germination fractions from a density-independent bet-hedging model to observed germination fractions. We did not find consistent evidence of bet hedging or the expected trade-off between arithmetic and geometric mean fitness, although delayed germination increased long-term fitness in 7 of 20 populations. Optimal germination fractions were two to five times higher than observed germination fractions, and among-population variation in germination fractions was not correlated with risks across the life cycle. Our comprehensive test suggests that bet hedging is not sufficient to explain the observed germination patterns. Understanding variation in germination strategies will likely require integrating bet hedging with complementary forces shaping the evolution of delayed germination.
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:202 |
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The American naturalist - 202(2023), 6 vom: 14. Dez., Seite 767-784 |
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Englisch |
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Siegmund, Gregor-Fausto [VerfasserIn] |
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Date Completed 04.12.2023 Date Revised 15.12.2023 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
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