Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31298/sl.144.1-2.2
Leaf variability of field maple populations (Acer campestre L.) in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Stjepan Kvesić
; Šume Središnje Bosne/Srednjobosanske šume d.o.o. Donji Vakuf
Dalibor Ballian
orcid.org/0000-0002-0090-6617
; Šumarski fakultet u Sarajevu, Bosna i Hercegovina
Mirzeta Memišević Hodžić
; Šumarski fakultet u Sarajevu, Bosna i Hercegovina
Abstract
Morphological variability of 25 populations of field maple (Acer campestre L.) in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina was researched. Morphometric investigation of intrapopulation and interpopulation variability was based on 19 morphological leaf traits, using descriptive and univariate statistical analyses. Leaf petiole length showed the highest variability, while calculated trait of the ratio between
the maximum legth and maximum width of the leaf showed the lowest variability. Calculated traits were less variable than measured traits, indicating lower variation of leaf shape than leaf dimension. Variance analyses showed statistically significant differences between populations in all analyzed leaf traits. Multiple testing showed a higher interpopular than intrapopular variability in all measured traits except two traits of the geometric data scale (angle of the veins). Unlike measured leaf traits, all calculated leaf traits showed higher intrapopulation than interpopulation variability. The most divergent population, on the one hand, was Trebinje population, with most of the minimum mean values of the leaf, while on the other hand the most divergent was Banja Luka population, whith most of the maximum mean values of the leaf. The obtained results can serve as a basis for further research into other parts of the distribution range of the species, in the purpose of determining the interaction influence of ecological, geographical, climatic and migration factors on the overall morphological variability of field maple populations.
Keywords
field maple; leaf; morphological variability
Hrčak ID:
234781
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Publication date:
29.2.2020.
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