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How does turions production of Potamogeton crispus L. respond to parental population biomass and living environment

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Turions production is the dominant means of propagation in Potamogeton crispus L. To understand how parental population and their living environmental factors influence the turions production of P. crispus L., a field research was conducted in Nansi Lake in Yellow River Flood Plain and southwestern Shandong Province, China. This study showed that P. crispus biomass and asexual turions showed an almost uniform spatial distribution pattern. Water depth, attenuation coefficient of light, sediment water content, sediment organic matter content, and pH were significantly related to P. crispus biomass, turions weight, and turions number. Single turion weight was determined only by P. crispus biomass, while turions number was simultaneously determined by P. crispus biomass and sediment water content. Turions weight mainly depended on turions number rather than single turion weight, and maternal biomass and sediment water content determined turions weight by affected turions number rather than single turion weight.

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The authors thank the anonymous reviewer for his/her insightful suggestions

Funding

This study was supported by the National Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51809228; 51979241 and 32060273), National Science Foundation of Shandong Province (Grant No. ZR2019PEE040), Key R & D Program Projects of Jiangxi Province (Grant No. 20203BBG72W007), and Major Leaders of Academic and Technical Program of Jiangxi Province (Grant No. 20182BCB22016).

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  1. Jiangxi Academy of Eco-Environmental Sciences and Planning, Nanchang, 330039, People’s Republic of China

    Tianshun Zhu, Zugen Liu, Jianfeng Chen & Meng Zhang

  2. College of Life Sciences, Zaozhuang University, Zaozhuang, 277160, People’s Republic of China

    Tianshun Zhu, Lihong Wang, Xin Ding, Jing Chen & Yang Yang

  3. Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430072, People’s Republic of China

    Tianshun Zhu & Zihao Wen

  4. Key Laboratory of Poyang Lake Environment and Resource Utilization of Ministry of Education, Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330029, People’s Republic of China

    Liang He

  5. Jiangxi Province Engineering Research Center of Ecological Chemical Industry, Poyang Lake Eco-Economy Research Center, Jiujiang University, Jiujiang, 332005, China

    Jianfeng Chen

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Tianshun Zhu: formal analysis, resources, writing-original draft, writing-review and editing, supervision, and funding acquisition

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Zhu, T., Wang, L., Ding, X. et al. How does turions production of Potamogeton crispus L. respond to parental population biomass and living environment. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 66413–66421 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-19958-6

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