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Changes in the germinability of seeds of dicotyledonous herbs from anthropogenic and wild habitats during two initial years in a seedbank

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2021

Zdenka Martinková Open the ORCID record for Zdenka Martinková [Opens in a new window] ,
Alois Honěk Open the ORCID record for Alois Honěk [Opens in a new window]  and
Marek Brabec Open the ORCID record for Marek Brabec [Opens in a new window]
Zdenka Martinková
Affiliation:
Senior Researcher, Team of Function of Invertebrate and Plant Biodiversity in Agrosystems, Crop Research Institute, Prague, Czech Republic
Alois Honěk*
Affiliation:
Associate Professor, Team of Function of Invertebrate and Plant Biodiversity in Agrosystems, Crop Research Institute, Prague, Czech Republic
Marek Brabec
Affiliation:
Senior Researcher, Department of Statistical Modeling, Institute of Computer Sciences, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
*
Author for correspondence: Alois Honěk, Crop Research Institute, Drnovská 507, 16106 Prague 6–Ruzyně, Czech Republic. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

The germinability of buried seeds changes with time, and the direction and periodicity of these changes differ among plant species. In 116 abundant dicotyledonous herb species, we investigated the changes in seed germinability that occurred during the 2-yr period following burial in the soil. We aimed to establish differences between seeds collected in “anthropogenic” (ruderal, arable land) and “wild” (grassland, forest) habitats. The seeds were buried in a field 1 mo after collection, exhumed at regular intervals, and germinated at 25 C. During the 2-yr study period, four categories of species-specific patterns of germinability changes were found: seeds demonstrating seasonal dormancy/nondormancy cycles (31 species); seeds germinating only in the first season after burial (16 species); seeds germinating steadily (38 species); and seeds whose germinability changed gradually, with increasing (7 species) or decreasing (18 species) germinability. The seeds of 6 species did not germinate at all. We found no significant difference in the frequency of these categories between species typical for anthropogenic and wild habitats. The cause for this result may be dramatic human influences (changes of agricultural practices), the pressure of which impedes the development of floras specific for certain habitats, as distinguished by the frequency of species with particular patterns of seed germinability. These frequencies varied among taxa with the growth form, seed mass, and flowering phenology of species.

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Arable landdormancy/nondormancy cyclesgrasslandforestruderalseasonal changestemperatureweed
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Research Article
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Weed Science , Volume 69 , Issue 6 , November 2021 , pp. 660 - 672
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Weed Science Society of America

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Associate Editor: Prashant Jha, Iowa State University

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