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Bulletin of Botanical Research ›› 2025, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (6): 997-1002.doi: 10.7525/j.issn.1673-5102.2025.06.016

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Intraspecific and Interspecific Competition Relationship Between Ammopiptanthus mongolicus and Zygophyllum xanthoxylum in theEcotone

Lan DU, Tiejuan WANG(), Xuemeng ZHOU, Rui ZHANG, Bingbing ZHANG, Jing FENG   

  1. College of Life Science and Technology,Inner Mongolia Normal University,Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Utilization in Mongolian Plateau for College and University of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region,Hohhot 010022
  • Received:2024-11-30 Online:2025-11-20 Published:2025-11-27
  • Contact: Tiejuan WANG E-mail:wtj105@163.com

Abstract:

In order to clarify the competitive influence of rare and endangered plant Ammopiptanthus mongolicus, this study selected the ecotone between A.mongolicus and Zygophyllum xanthoxylum, and used Hegyi single tree competition model to analyze the intraspecific and interspecific competition relationship by investigating 25 target trees of A.mongolicus. The results showed that intraspecific and interspecific competition intensity of A.mongolicus accounted for 5.09% and 94.91% of the total competition intensity(341.32), respectively, indicating that the competition of A. mongolicus was mainly derived from interspecific competition. There were many competing tree species of A.mongolicus in the ecotone, and the competition intensity from high to low was Artemisia xerophyticaCaragana brachypoda,Z.xanthoxylum,Oxytropis aciphyllaA.mongolicusReaumuria trigynaKrascheninnikovia ceratoidesReaumuria soongaricaPotaninia mongolicaAsparagus gobicus. The relationship of the interspecific competition index and the total competition index with the crown width of A.mongolicus was approximately subject to the power function relationship, and the competition intensity decreased with the increase of crown width of target trees. When the crown width of target trees was less than 1.0 m, the competitive pressure was greater, and the obtained model could well reflect the competitive intensity of A.mongolicus.

Key words: endangered plant, Ammopiptanthus mongolicus, shrub, intraspecific and interspecific competition, competition index

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