The biology and ecology of "betula pendula" roth on post-industrial waste dumping grounds: the variability range of life history traits (Uniwersytet Śląski)

Tytuł The biology and ecology of „Betula pendula" Roth on post-industrial waste dumping grounds: the variability range of life history traits Autor Izabella Franiel Język angielski Wydawnictwo Uniwersytet Śląski ISBN 978-83-8012-526-1 kolekcja Prace Naukowe UŚ; Biologia Rok wydania 2012 Katowice Wydanie 1 ilość stron 146 Format pdf Spis treści Contents Acknowledgements / 7 Part One Theoretical overview / 9 Introduction and the research objectives / 9 Adaptation as an expression of adjustment by a species to environmental conditions / 11 Responses of plants to stress-related factors / 12 Spatial organization of populations / 15 Part Two European white birch (Betula pendula ROTH) — general characterization of the species / 23 The developmental biology of birch and adaptation capabilities of the species / 23 Part Three Description of the study areas / 31 The zinc-lead dump / 31 The mine waste dump / 33 The research site in Mirów / 34 The research site in Łodygowice / 35 Climatic conditions of the studied areas / 36 Part Four Material and study methods / 39 The research material and period / 39 Field studies / 40 Laboratory tests / 41 Geostatistical method / 42 The spatial variability of B. Pendula seedlings / 45 Statistical methods / 47 Part Five Results / 49 The photosynthetic apparatus of birch / 49 The content of chlorophyll a in birch leaves / 49 The content of chlorophyll b in birch leaves / 52 The content of carotenoids in birch leaves / 54 The ratio of chlorophyll a to chlorophyll b / 57 The number of birch leaves on selected twigs / 59 The surface area of a lamina / 62 Biometric characteristics of generative organs / 65 The number of staminate inflorescences / 65 The number of pistillate inflorescences / 68 The length of staminate inflorescences / 70 The length of pistillate inflorescences / 73 The length of fructification axes / 76 The number of nuts per fructification / 78 The number of empty nuts per fructification / 81 The number of full nuts per fructification / 83 Efficiency of pollen germination / 86 Germination of birch seeds / 87 Germination capacity / 87 Germination energy expressed by the Pieper coefficient / 90 Correlation analysis of the obtained results / 91 Geostatistical analysis / 92 Visualization of variables / 92 Preliminary analysis of the collected data / 95 Calculation of empirical variograms and selection of theoretical variograms / 97 Envelopes of a variogram / 103 Statistical analysis of biometric parameters / 106 Part Six Discussion / 109 Influence of environmental stress-related factors on the content of photosynthetic pigments / 109 Generative reproduction of silver birch and factors affecting reproduction success / 114 Influence of the selected habitat factors (moisture, solar radiation intensity) on the shape of spatial structure of seedlings / 119 Characteristics of biometric parameters of specimens growing in different parts of the postindustrial dumping ground and in the area relatively free of post-industrial contamination / 123 Part Seven Conclusions / 127 References / 129 Streszczenie / 139 Zusammenfassung / 141