热带雨林乔木的变态根

Modified Roots of Tropical Rainforest Arbor

介绍了根的基本知识和形态类型;说明了西双版纳热带雨林中的板根、地面根、气生根和支柱根均是热带雨林植物特有的变态根,也正是这些形态各异的变态根构成了独树成林、植物绞杀等独特的热带雨林景观;指出热带雨林乔木的变态根,实质上是植物为了适应环境、争夺空间所采取的生存法则。

This paper introduces basic knowledge and morphological types of roots which reveal that buttress roots, ground roots, aerial roots and brace roots are all unique root-modifying of tropical rainforest plants in Xishuangbanna and which constitute unique tropical rainforest landscape such as single-tree forest and plant strangler and so on and points out that the root-modifying of tropical rainforest arbor are the laws for the plants to survive by competing the space and by suiting the environment,