Consequences of less intensive farming on the landscape: an example of vegetation dominance by Chaerophyllum aureum in the meadows of a Pyrenean valley in France |
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Authors: | Danièle Magda Jean-François Gonnet |
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Institution: | (1) Unité d'Agronomie, INRA-SAD, B.P. 27, F-31326 Castanet-Tolosan, France;(2) Laboratoire de Biologie Micromoléculaire et de Phytochimie, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon I, 43, boulevard du 11 Novembre, F-69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France |
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Abstract: | The impact of agricultural practices on the dynamics of weed invasion in a rural landscape was studied by describing the spatial distribution of Chaerophyllum aureum populations colonising less intensive managed hay meadows. Polyphenol compounds were used as individual markers to identify the structure of C. aureum diversity, in terms of its scale and patterns, within and between fields along the bottom of a Pyrenean valley. The results revealed, firstly, the existence of a dominant `genotype' successfully colonising the entire area, and secondly, the maintenance of high levels of polyphenol diversity within five different populations. This spatial arrangement of `genetic' population diversity was obviously not related to the natural reproduction and dispersal patterns of this species, but to human practices of hay production, the principal effect of which is to mix seeds of different genetic origin and thus accelerate and amplify the colonisation process of adapted `genotypes'. |
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Keywords: | Chaerophyllum aureum grassland invasion land use changes polyphenols population seed dispersal |
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