Plant Adaptation Regions: Ecological and Climatic Classification of Plant Materials
By K. Vogel, M. Schmer, R. Mitchell. 2005
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Abstract The effective use of plant materials for an array of objectives including conservation, restoration, renovation, landscaping, and bioremediation requires knowledge of the adaptation of each species and, more specifically, knowledge of the adaptation of cultivars, strains, accessions, or ecotypes of a species to specific sites or regions. For agronomic and horticultural plants, specific adaptation information has been and continues to be developed by extensive testing. Rangeland, grassland, park, and restoration project managers often lack the resources to determine adaptation areas for plant materials because of the large number of species that are used and the extensive geographical areas that are serviced. Problems often arise in delineating adaptation areas for plant materials of both native and introduced species. Since ecoregion and plant hardiness zone classification systems integrate many climatic and geographic variables that determine plant adaptation, these 2 systems can be combined to develop Plant Adaptation Regions (PARs). A PAR map of the contiguous United States was developed by merging a widely used ecoregion map with the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone map, and is available in GIS format. Based on their geographic origins and/or test results, plant materials and their general areas of adaptation can be classified using PARs.
Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Environmental Chemistry, Nature and Landscape Conservation
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Citations in the corpus
- Genetic Diversity, Plant Adaptation Regions, and Gene Pools for Switchgrass (2007, methodology): “Digitization of both USDA hardiness zone and Bailey’s ecoregion boundaries using geographic information system software allows additional prairie-remnant populations to be easily classifi ed, providing a distinct advantage to the PAR system (Vogel et al., 2005).”
- Banking on the future: progress, challenges and opportunities for the genetic conservation of forest trees (2017, background): “Ideally, species-specific seed transfer zones should be generated using information from common garden studies that can relate adaptive genetic variation to geographic and climatic variables (Ying and Yanchuk 2006), but this approach is not possible for most tree species, other than those of commerc”
- Heterosis in Switchgrass: Biomass Yield in Swards (2008, background): “Kanlow’s origin is in upper Plant Hardiness Zone 7 whereas Summer’s origin is in Plant Hardiness Zone 5 (Alderson and Sharp, 1994; Vogel et al., 2005 ).”
- Ecogeographical land characterization maps as a tool for assessing plant adaptation and their implications in agrobiodiversity studies (2012, background): “One of the scarce studies that considered adaptation was carried out by Vogel et al. (2005) , who produced a plant adaptation map for the United States merging previous ecoregion and plant hardiness zone maps.”
- Can an Ecoregion Serve as a Seed Transfer Zone? Evidence from a Common Garden Study with Five Native Species (2011, background): “One proposed refinement to the use of ecoregions as areas of plant movement has been to combine them with plant hardiness zones for mapping plant adaptation regions (Vogel et al. 2005).”