Biotic controls of plant coexistence

Coexistence of three predators competing for a single biotic resource

Biotic interactions and plant invasions.

Introduced plant populations lose interactions with enemies, mutualists and competitors from their native ranges, and gain interactions with new species, under new abiotic conditions. From a biogeographical perspective, differences in the assemblage of interacting species, as well as in abiotic conditions, may explain the demographic success of the introduced plant populations relative to consp...

Plant coexistence and the niche

a Diversity: the number of species found in a local community. a Niche: the region of the realized niche of a species corresponding to species diversity at the local community (or a-diversity) scale at which interactions among species occur. Niche differences at this scale should facilitate coexistence. Character displacement: the evolutionary accentuation of trait differences between sympatric...

Calcium Signalling in Plant Biotic Interactions

Calcium (Ca2+) is a universal second messenger involved in various cellular processes, leading to plant development and to biotic and abiotic stress responses. Intracellular variation in free Ca2+ concentration is among the earliest events following the plant perception of environmental change. These Ca2+ variations differ in their spatio-temporal properties according to the nature, strength an...

Biotic controls over spectral reflectance of arctic tundra vegetation

In this study, seasonal field measurements of the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), using a field spectroradiometer, and leaf area index (LAI), using a LI-COR LAI-2000 Plant Canopy Analyzer, were compared with above-ground phytomass data to investigate relationships between vegetation properties and spectral indices for four distinct tundra vegetation types at Ivotuk, Alaska (68.49...