Artículo
Population Dynamic of the Annual Halophyte Salicornia ramosissima in Salt Pans: Towards a Sustainable Exploitation of Its Wild Populations
Autor/es | Polo Ávila, Alejandro
Infante Izquierdo, María Dolores Sánchez Gullón, Enrique Castillo Segura, Jesús Manuel Muñoz Rodríguez, Adolfo Francisco |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología |
Fecha de publicación | 2022 |
Fecha de depósito | 2022-07-11 |
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Resumen | Halophyte species growing under stressful conditions, such as the annual species of the Salicornia genus, have been recognized as a source of metabolites of pharmacological and nutraceutical interest. Therefore, planning ... Halophyte species growing under stressful conditions, such as the annual species of the Salicornia genus, have been recognized as a source of metabolites of pharmacological and nutraceutical interest. Therefore, planning the extraction of individual plants from wild populations in a sustainable way is especially important in the case of annual species. We studied the environmental matrix and population dynamic of four Salicornia ramosissima populations growing at two elevations in salt pans under a Mediterranean climate. In elevated areas, S. ramosissima populations presented maximum plant densities of between 628–6288 plants m−2 that remained almost constant until fruiting. In contrast, populations in depressed zones presented five-times greater soil-seed-bank densities and maximum plant densities than populations in elevated zones. In this context, populations in depressed zones lost c. 60% of their maximum plant densities from the end of spring and through summer. In whatever way the environmental matrix seemed to control the population dynamic of S. ramosissima in depressed zones, the effects of a stressful environment would interact with plant densities. In this sense, we recorded the density-dependent mortality for the densest population (max. 51,558 plants m−2). Our results are useful for planning a sustainable harvesting of natural populations of S. ramosissima. |
Agencias financiadoras | Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte (MECD). España |
Identificador del proyecto | FPU-2015 |
Cita | Polo Ávila, A., Infante Izquierdo, M.D., Sánchez Gullón, E., Castillo Segura, J.M. y Muñoz Rodríguez, A.F. (2022). Population Dynamic of the Annual Halophyte Salicornia ramosissima in Salt Pans: Towards a Sustainable Exploitation of Its Wild Populations. Plants, 11, 1676. |
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