关键词: 生活史, 生态适应对策, 繁殖对策

Abstract: The plant community life history implies the whole process through seed germination to new seed formation, including the life history characteristics in different stages (reproduction, seed, renew and development) and the interaction between the biome and environment. The life history strategy is also an adaptation strategy, forming under the long-term natural selection and characterizing a different life history, the natural selection shapes the biome's figure and behaviour. The present paper reviews the research history, advances and/or achievements, content and the application of life history strategy for desert plants study. Meanwhile, we highlight several research corners for future further study, the trade-offs on resource allocation within perennial plant had not been proved, the relationship of neighbor effects and reproductive allocation was still not so clear for individual plant, there was no definite conclusion on perennial plant reproductive strategy under different neighbor effects and different habitats. The relationship between reproductive allocation and sexual allocation, the cause of resource distribution in anthotaxy structure, the similarities and differences of reproductive allocation and the maintain mechanism within all kinds of reproductive strategy need a further investigation. In addition, a molecular study is required for explaining the variation mechanism and the biological meanings on seed size research. The relationship between seed size and its germination capacity still remain vague in a community level. And, there still was seldom research on the time proliferation during seed germination process.

Key words: life history, ecological adaptation strategy, reproductive strategy