Abstract:Based on tracer method,the characteristics of water physiological integration pattern and the ecological effects in the series of roots,stolons and ramet leaves of clonal plant species Zoysia japonica were studied.H218O were introduced into the roots of multiple-nodes at different growing stages.The experimental habitats were heterogeneously high and homogeneously low.(1)H218O translocation in primary stolons showed both basal and distal directions with the later as the dominance.(2)In the former HH habitat,when H218O was initially absorbed by the roots of basal and middle multiple-nodes,the translocation of H218O at distal direction showed a trend of increasing-then-decreasing and decreasing-then-increasing pattern,respectively.In the latter HL habitat,when H218O was initially absorbed by the roots of middle multiple-nodes,the translocation of H218O at distal direction showed a trend of continuous increasing.In all these conditions,the translocation of H218O at distal direction reached the apexes of the clones.(3)In both HH and HL habitats,the translocation of H218O at basal direction mainly showed a decreasing trend.When analyzing the translocation of H218O in the primary stolons in both habitats,H218O was mainly allocated to the ramet leaves.The translocation of H218O in the secondary stolons showed acropetal tendency,and H218O reached apexes of the secondary stolons.(4)H218O in A ramet leaves were usually significantly higher than those in B ramet leaves,showing consistence with the growth and development pattern of Z.japonica clone;but in HH habitat,after H218O being absorbed by the roots of middle multiple-nodes,the allocation 18O in B ramet leaves were significantly higher than those in A ramet leaves,implying that the advantages of A ramets relative to B ramets were changeable sometimes.