Winter orchids | Biodiversity creation is like making pizza 10

Описание: Welcome to my exploration of the incredible biodiversity found in plant communities. In this series, I’ll uncover how ecology and evolution shape the rich variety of plant life we see today. Join me as I dive into the forces that drive and sustain the complexity of our natural world. Why are there so many species? At a single site with the same climate, soil and resources, how can there be 64 species? Why not just one or two ‘most efficient’ species?

In this Part 10: understanding biodiversity requires understanding what happens throughout the year. Small herbs have an advantage when larger plants find growth difficult (e.g. after mowing and in the cold). So, many orchids time their growth phase during the winter when competition is limited. Allowing plants with very different forms, life-cycles and survival 'strategies' to share the habitat. In Ecology, exploitation of different resources or opportunities, allowing coexistence, is known as 'niche partitioning'.

Part of a series on the forces creating biodiversity
Part 1:    • How species coexist | Biodiversity creatio...  
Part 2:    • The last day of winter | Biodiversity crea...  
Part 3:    • Patchiness and the species pool | Biodiver...  
Part 4:    • Community assembly | Biodiversity creation...  
Part 5:    • Why genetic diversity matters | Biodiversi...  
Part 6:    • Species richness and productivity | Biodiv...  
Part 7:    • Putting the biology back into ecology | Bi...  
Part 8:    • Alien invasion! | Biodiversity creation is...  
Part 9:    • Autumnal flowering | Biodiversity creation...  
Part 10:    • Winter orchids | Biodiversity creation is ...  
(building upon:    • The Mystery of the 39 Bromeliads  ).

Based on the peer-reviewed scientific paper:
Pierce, S., Vagge, I., Brusa, G. & Cerabolini B.E.L. (2014) The intimacy between sexual traits and Grime’s CSR strategies for orchids coexisting in semi-natural calcareous grassland at the Olive Lawn. Plant Ecology 215: 495–505. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-014-03...

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