克隆生长赋予沙棘生理整合和觅养行为等特性,使其不仅能够适应干旱缺水的环境,并且具有较高的繁殖及生存有效性,通过林缘扩散和林窗更新维持群落持久性及稳定性。同时,沙棘能通过克隆生长产生大量彼此联结的分株,形成庞大的地下网络结构,从而有效地保持水土、防风固沙、稳固土壤基质,并为其他植物的定居创造有利条件。 Clonal growth gives the physiological integration and foraging behavior of seabuckthorn, making it not only able to adapt to the drought and water shortage environment, but also has a high reproductive and survival effectiveness, maintaining the stability and sustainability of the community through the spread of forest margins and gap regeneration . At the same time, seabuckthorn can produce a large number of ramets which are linked to each other through clonal growth, forming a huge underground network structure, thereby effectively maintaining soil and water, preventing sand and stabilizing soil matrix, and creating favorable conditions for the settlement of other plants.