Environmental variation in sex ratios and sexual dimorphism in three wind-pollinated dioecious plant species
Data files
Apr 19, 2022 version files 516.99 KB
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data_rumex_indiv.txt
81.92 KB
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data_rumex_leaf.txt
141.87 KB
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data_rumex_pop.csv
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data_salix_indiv.txt
44.86 KB
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data_salix_leaf.txt
111.35 KB
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data_salix_pop.csv
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data_urtica_indiv.txt
26.28 KB
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data_urtica_leaf.txt
74.59 KB
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data_urtica_pop.csv
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README_file_Bürli_etal_2022.txt
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Jun 08, 2022 version files 517.04 KB
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data_rumex_indiv.txt
81.92 KB
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data_rumex_leaf.txt
141.87 KB
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data_rumex_pop.csv
6.60 KB
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data_salix_indiv.txt
44.86 KB
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data_salix_leaf.txt
111.35 KB
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data_salix_pop.csv
3.41 KB
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data_urtica_indiv.txt
26.28 KB
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data_urtica_leaf.txt
74.59 KB
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data_urtica_pop.csv
5.05 KB
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README_file_Bürli_etal_2022.txt
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Abstract
Variation in plant sex ratios is often attributable to sex-specific mortality in heterogeneous environments that differentially limit male and female plant reproduction. Yet sexual dimorphism and plastic responses to environmental heterogeneity are common and may co-vary with variation in sex ratios. Here, we show that the sex ratio and the degree of sexual dimorphism for a number of plant traits varied along climatic and elevation gradients in three wind-pollinated dioecious species, Rumex lunaria, Urtica dioica and Salix helvetica. Some of the observed sex-specific responses to climatic variation are consistent with greater sensitivity of females to water scarcity, but most responses rather point to the greater sensitivity of males to ecological stress, consistent with larger male reproductive effort, as has been commonly reported for wind-pollinated plants. In contrast, we found no evidence for variation in either sex ratios or sexual dimorphism expected under sexual selection. Interestingly, sex ratios and sexual dimorphism varied both along distinct and the same ecological axes of variation, suggesting that the evolution of sexual dimorphism in the measured traits was not sufficient to prevent sex-specific mortality.
Methods
Please, find additional details in the Readme file and in the article:
Bürli, S., Pannell, J. R., & Tonnabel, J. (2022). Environmental variation in sex ratios and sexual dimorphism in three wind‐pollinated dioecious plant species. Oikos, e08651. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.08651
Usage notes
A detailed README file is available with the datasets.
The data are not standardised and missing values are noted by NA. The data have been checked for outliers.
Relationship between files: the number of the populations refer to the same populations between the files of the same species. For example, the population one for Rumex lunaria refers to the same population one in the following documents "data_SPECIES_pop.csv", "data_SPECIES_indiv.txt" and "data_SPECIES_leaf.txt".