Using plant‐soil feedbacks to predict plant biomass in diverse communities
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Using plant-soil feedbacks to predict plant biomass in diverse communities.
It has become clear that plants can create soils that affect subsequent plant growth. However, because plant-soil feedbacks (PSFs) are typically measured in monoculture experiments, it remains unclear to what extent PSFs affect plant growth in communities. Here we used data from a factorial PSF experiment to predict the biomass of 12 species grown in 162 plant community combinations. Five diffe...
متن کاملInvasiveness in plant communities with feedbacks.
The detrimental effects of invasive plant species on ecosystems are well documented. While much research has focused on discovering ecological influences associated with invasiveness, it remains unclear how these influences interact, causing some introduced exotic species to become invasive threats. Here we develop a framework that incorporates the influences of propagule pressure, frequency in...
متن کاملDiverse pollinator communities enhance plant reproductive success.
Understanding the functional consequences of biodiversity loss is a major goal of ecology. Animal-mediated pollination is an essential ecosystem function and service provided to mankind. However, little is known how pollinator diversity could affect pollination services. Using a substitutive design, we experimentally manipulated functional group (FG) and species richness of pollinator communiti...
متن کاملFunctionally and phylogenetically diverse plant communities key to soil biota.
Recent studies assessing the role of biological diversity for ecosystem functioning indicate that the diversity of functional traits and the evolutionary history of species in a community, not the number of taxonomic units, ultimately drives the biodiversity--ecosystem-function relationship. Here, we simultaneously assessed the importance of plant functional trait and phylogenetic diversity as ...
متن کاملInterspecific competition in natural plant communities: mechanisms, trade-offs and plant–soil feedbacks
Introduction Interspecific competition in natural plant communities Most plant scientists agree that interspecific competition is highly dependent on nutrient availability. At high is an important determinant of the structure and the levels of nutrient availability, competition is mainly for dynamics of plant communities. There is, however, much light. As light is a unidirectional resource, hig...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Ecology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0012-9658,1939-9170
DOI: 10.1890/15-2037.1