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- Library Collection RecordPositive interactions among plants have rarely been investigated with respect to their evolutionary consequences and vice versa. The outcome of facilitative interactions depends on the competitive…Publication Date 2011
- Aridity gradient
- facilitation
- ecotypes
- Immigrants
- Nurse plants
- stress tolerance
- Local adaptation
- seeds
- ecosystem ecology
- Alien invasive species
- Amman
- Jordan
- Library Collection RecordBackground: Theory predicts that plants can reduce their fitness in the presence of neighbours by allocating resources to root growth, in order to pre-empt resource capture. A number of studies that…Publication Date 2011
- grassland ecology
- ecosystem ecology
- root growth
- Soil Volume
- soil nutrients
- Library Collection Record1. Models of local stable coexistence require negative feedbacks, i.e. intraspecific interactions must be more negative than interspecific interactions. However, most competition experiments, often…Publication Date 2011
- grasslands
- community ecology
- seeds
- ecosystem ecology
- Coexistence
- competition
- competitive hierarchy
- facilitation
- germination
- intraspecific vs. interspecific interactions
- plant-soil feedbacks
- Michigan
- USA
- Library Collection RecordPlant-soil feedbacks is becoming an important concept for explaining vegetation dynamics, the invasiveness of introduced exotic species in new habitats and how terrestrial ecosystems respond to…Publication Date 2013
- vegetation dynamics
- plant-soil interactions
- Alien invasive species
- community dynamics
- succesion
- climate change
- biodiversity
- restoration
- ecosystem services
- management
- ecosystem ecology
- Library Collection RecordMany exotic species have been introduced or have escaped into grasslands where they form "novel ecosystems" of species with no evolutionary history of interaction. Novel ecosystems are…Publication Date 2011
- novel ecosystems
- Alien invasive species
- phenology
- niche partitioning
- Equalizing and stabilizing effects
- plant diversity
- tallgrass prairie
- altered precipitation
- global change
- Eragrostis curvula
- Panicum coloratum
- Sorghum halapense
- Sporobolus compositus
- Panicum virgatum
- Sorghastrum nutans
- grasslands
- restoration ecology
- ecosystem ecology
- species diversity
- rainfall
- Texas
- USA
- Library Collection RecordBackground: The invasion by Pinus elliottii is one of the most serious threats to the remaining native cerrado vegetation in São Paulo State, Brazil, causing biodiversity losses yet to be evaluated…Publication Date 2011
- plant ecology
- Alien invasive species
- grasslands
- biodiversity
- degradation
- ecosystem ecology
- savannah
- Brazil
- South America
- Library Collection RecordForages are important throughout the south-east USA for livestock production and wildlife habitat. However, little is known about how forage species commonly grown in this region influence soil-…Publication Date 2011
- soils
- foragage quality
- ecosystem ecology
- fungi
- water-stable aggregates
- hyphal density
- grasses
- legumes
- south-east USA
- Library Collection RecordAgricultural intensification negatively affects farmland biodiversity, and thereby, ecosystem services such as predation of weed seeds. Landscape complexity (large and diverse areas of semi-natural…Publication Date 2011
- Carabids
- ecosystem services
- plant-animal interactions
- Post-dispersal seed predation
- Slugs
- small mammals
- commercial agriculture
- seeds
- biodiversity
- invertebrates
- grasslands
- ecosystem ecology
- Germany
- Library Collection Record1. Population dynamics often defy predictions based on empirical models, and explanations for noisy dynamics have ranged from deterministic chaos to environmental stochasticity. Transient (short-term…Publication Date 2010
- conservation
- management
- disturbance
- vegetaqtion dynamics
- ecosystem ecology
- amplification
- attenuation
- demography
- Life History
- phylogeny
- population dynamics
- projection matrix
- transients
- Library Collection RecordParadigms about desertification and non-equilibrium dynamics are currently dominating discussions about rangeland and pastoralist systems in semi-arid and arid zones. Climate variability is a major…Publication Date 2010
- Dis-equilibrium
- equilibrium
- grazing systems
- non-equilibrium
- pastoralism
- drought
- management
- ecosystem ecology
- Library Collection Record1. Plant demographers using matrix tools have paid special attention to vital rates of reproduction, growth and survival. The demographic implications of plants regressing in size, or shrinking, have…Publication Date 2010
- vegetation dynamics
- ecosystem ecology
- comparative plant demography
- damping ratio
- Life Span
- matrix dimension
- plant shrinkage
- population growth rate (?)
- projection matrix models
- size phenotypic plasticity
- Library Collection RecordLarge herbivores are key drivers of nutrient cycling in ecosystems worldwide, and hence they have an important influence on the productivity and species composition in plant communities. Classical…Publication Date 2013
- grazing
- trampling
- soil compaction
- soil texture
- Soil Type
- Water logging
- nutrient cycling
- Decomposition
- Excreta (dung and urine)
- Soil Aeration
- herbivores
- ecosystem ecology
- grazing
- browsiing
- soils nutrients
- Library Collection RecordThe development of models of the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem function (BEF) has advanced rapidly over the last 20 years, incorporating insights gained through extensive…Publication Date 2013
- modelling
- biodiversity
- ecosystem ecology
- Ecosystem function
- species richness
- species composition
- Library Collection RecordSmoke from wildfires has adverse biological and social consequences, and various lines of evidence suggest that smoke from wildfires in the future may be more intense and widespread, demanding that…Publication Date 2014
- modelling
- management
- ecosystem ecology
- climate change
- smoke transport
- feedbacks
- coupled models
- Library Collection Record1. An unresolved question in plant ecology is how the balance between positive and negative interactions changes with environmental conditions. Recently, the debate has been expanded by Brooker…Publication Date 2010
- vegetation dynamics
- ecosystem ecology
- competition
- environmental gradients
- facilitation
- indices
- plant interactions
- Library Collection RecordDespite the widespread recognition that disturbance by livestock affects multiple indices of landscape health, few studies have examined their effects on both biotic and abiotic processes. We…Publication Date 2011
- disturbance
- grazing gradient
- landscape function
- overgrazing
- plant diversity
- reptiles
- grazing
- livestock
- soils
- ecosystem ecology
- rangelands
- Australia
- Library Collection Record1.?Björkman et al. comment on Adams and Zhang’s finding of more leaf herbivory with increasing latitude, pointing out that top-down control by predators on insect herbivores might cause less…Publication Date 2011
- grassland
- ecosystem ecology
- ecosystem dynamics
- herbivores
- herbivory
- natural enemy
- plant-herbivore interactions
- predators
- scale
- system type
- temperature
- top-down control
- Library Collection Record1. Our aim was to explore plant - soil feedback in mixed grassland communities and its significance for plant productivity and community composition relative to abiotic factors of soil type and…Publication Date 2010
- grassland
- ecosystem ecology
- vegetation dynamics
- community ecology
- plant production
- Soil Condition
- soil fertility
- management
- above-ground biomass
- functional groups
- mesocosm
- mesotrophic grassland
- plant community dynamics
- plant - soil feedback
- soil conditioning
- Northumberland
- UK
- Library Collection RecordQuestions What are the main drivers of variation in beta-diversity for Bromus erectus semi-natural dry grasslands of habitat 6210(*) at different scales? How should environmental variables and…Publication Date 2013
- biogeography
- Calcareous dry grasslands
- Conservation prioritization
- Habitat 6210(*)
- Habitats Directive
- Multiple regression on distance matrices
- Variation partitioning
- grasslands
- species diversity
- rainfall
- ecosystem ecology
- management
- Central Italy
- Library Collection RecordQuestions How do fragment-level characteristics affect remnant grassland functioning in a highly transformed landscape? Are artificial neural networks (ANNs) a better statistical tool to model…Publication Date 2013
- Enhanced vegetation index
- fragmentation
- Landscape structure
- MODIS data
- neural networks
- Paspalum quadrifarium
- Tall-tussock grassland
- grassland
- Ecosystem function
- ecosystem ecology
- modelling
- soils
- Tandilia Range
- Southern Pampa
- Buenos Aires Province
- Argentina
- Library Collection Record1. Variation in species pools can affect plant diversity, but it remains unclear whether the magnitude of the response varies because of resource availability, community invasibility or other…Publication Date 2011
- grasslands
- ecosystem ecology
- species richness
- seeds
- water use
- Plant Productivity
- colonization
- diversity
- productivity
- seed addition
- species sorting
- species traits
- Michigan
- USA
- Library Collection Record1. Spatial variation in species composition within and among communities may be caused by deterministic, niche-based species sorting in response to underlying environmental heterogeneity as well as…Publication Date 2011
- ecosystem ecology
- community dynamics
- seeds
- agriculture
- succession
- community assembly
- community differentiation
- determinants of plant community diversity and structure
- dispersal limitation
- grassland
- meta-community
- nitrogen gradient
- secondary succession
- species pool
- species sorting
- Kansas
- USA
- Library Collection RecordQuestions: Can prescribed fire restore C4 perennial grasses in grassland ecosystems that have become dominated by fire-resistant C3 shrubs (Prosopis glandulosa) and C3 grasses? Do fires in different…Publication Date 2010
- burning
- fire ecology
- Herbaceous composition
- mesquite
- prescribed fires
- savanna
- species diversity
- woody plant
- restoration ecology
- fire ecology
- management
- grasslands
- ecosystem ecology
- C4 grasses
- Texas
- USA
- Library Collection RecordThe shifting baseline syndrome suggests that our perceptions of previous conditions may change over time as ecosystems degrade. Although most discussion of the topic relates to decreasing species…Publication Date 2013
- generalist
- generational amnesia
- invasive species
- predator extirpation
- reference conditions
- shifting baseline syndrome
- restoration ecology
- ecosystem ecology
- Alien invasive species
- Library Collection RecordThe nutrition of animal consumers is an important regulator of ecological processes due to its effects on their physiology, life-history and behaviour. Understanding the ecological effects of poor…Publication Date 2013
- Ecological stoichiometry
- lipid profiling
- metabolism
- nutrient-stress
- nutrition
- proteomics
- transcriptomics
- ecosystem ecology
- nutrition
- community ecology
- Library Collection Record1. Recent research has shown that biodiversity may have its greatest impact on ecosystem functioning in heterogeneous environments. However, the role of soil heterogeneity as a modulator of ecosystem…Publication Date 2011
- ecosystem ecology
- biodiversity
- soil nutrients
- ecosystem functioning
- legumes
- plant functional groups
- plant resource use strategy
- plant-soil (below-ground) interactions
- productivity
- soil nutrient cycling
- soil nutrient heterogeneity
- Spain
- Library Collection Record1. Recent theoretical studies suggest that the stability of ecosystem processes is not governed by diversity per se, but by multitrophic interactions in complex communities. However, experimental…Publication Date 2011
- grasslands
- ecosystem ecology
- plant production
- invertebrates
- above- and below-ground interrelationships
- biodiversity loss
- biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationship
- earthworms
- herbivore insects
- Jena Experiment
- plant-soil (below-ground) interactions
- variability
- Thuringia
- Germany
- Library Collection RecordThe restoration of disturbed ecosystems is challenging and often unsuccessful, particularly when non-native plants are abundant. Ecosystem restoration may be hindered by the effects of non-native…Publication Date 2013
- restoration ecology
- Algae
- biological soil crusts
- disturbance
- Exotic
- Florida scrub
- fungi
- Melinis repens
- nitrogen
- Paspalum notatum
- pasture
- soils
- ecosystem ecology
- Florida
- USA
- Library Collection RecordQuestions Dominance of the widespread fire-altering invasive grass, Bromus tectorum, is markedly reduced at upper elevations in the Great Basin Desert. Here, we evaluated whether increased…Publication Date 2013
- cheatgrass
- downy brome
- Great Basin Desert
- invasive species
- nitrogen deposition
- sagebrush steppe
- Sierra Nevada
- indigenous encroaching species
- restoration ecology
- fire ecology
- ecosystem ecology
- species richness
- Sierra Nevada
- CA
- US
- Library Collection RecordNon-random spatial patterns are a common feature of plant communities. However, the mechanisms leading to their formation remain unknown. The clonal dispersal ability of a species, that is, the…Publication Date 2013
- clonal plants
- competitive neighbourhood characteristics
- determinants of plant community diversity and structure
- O-ring statistics
- phalanx vs. guerilla strategy
- spatial structure
- species interaction
- grassland
- vegetation dynamics
- ecosystem ecology
- France
- Library Collection Record1. Growing recognition of the importance of climate extremes as drivers of contemporary and future ecological dynamics has led to increasing interest in studying these locally and globally important…Publication Date 2011
- climate change
- drought
- ecosystem sensitivity
- Extreme events
- extreme weather
- global change
- heat wave
- plant-climate interactions
- state change
- thresholds
- ecosystem ecology
- Ecosystem function
- Library Collection RecordPopulations of the common perennial herb Plantago lanceolata L. have been exposed to nearly two decades of summer drought at the Buxton Climate Change Experiment (BCCIL), a controlled manipulation of…Publication Date 2014
- adaptation
- climate change
- drought
- functional traits
- grassland
- plant population and community dynamics
- Plantago lanceolata
- soils
- genetics
- ecosystem ecology
- northern England
- Library Collection RecordThe impact of soil erosion on the nutrient dynamics in alpine grassland soils is still an essential problem. Selecting a grass-covered hillslope in eastern Tibet Plateau, the cesium-137 (137Cs)…Publication Date 2013
- soils
- erosion
- organic carbon
- grasslands
- soil nutirents
- ecosystem ecology
- nutrient dynamics
- Tibet
- Library Collection Record1.?The occurrence and intensity of climate extremes, such as extremely warm years, are expected to continue to increase with increasing tropospheric radiative forcing caused by anthropogenic…Publication Date 2011
- grasslands
- prairie
- climate change
- global wrming
- greenhouse gases
- plant production
- species richness
- ecosystem ecology
- C4 grasses
- -ground net primary productivity - ANPP
- anomalously warm year
- EcoCELL whole-ecosystem controlled-environment gas exchange facility
- grassland ecosystem
- interannual climate variability
- lagged responses
- plant biodiversity
- Plant functional group
- plant species diversity
- plant-climate interactions
- Oklahoma
- USA
- Library Collection Record1. Chronosequences and associated space-for-time substitutions are an important and often necessary tool for studying temporal dynamics of plant communities and soil development across multiple time-…Publication Date 2010
- ecosystem ecology
- vegetation dynamics
- soils
- biodiversity
- species richness
- chronosequences
- disturbance
- plant communities
- retrogression
- soil biological communities
- Soil Development
- succession
- temporal change
- Library Collection RecordAlthough plant litter identity has long been recognized as one of the important drivers of terrestrial ecosystem processes, our understanding on this issue is limited. We incubated leaf litter of…Publication Date 2011
- ecosystem ecology
- soils
- grasslands
- Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis
- litter decomposition
- phospholipid fatty acid
- soil bacteria
- soil fungi
- Japan
- Library Collection RecordUnderstanding the variation in hereditary symbiont frequency among host populations is a prerequisite to predict symbiont fixation processes. However, the mechanisms driving this variation remain…Publication Date 2013
- environmental heterogeneity
- Epichloë festucae
- fitness differential
- mutualism
- plant population and community dynamics
- symbiont fixation
- vertical transmission
- vegetation dynamics
- grassland
- ecosystem ecology
- Europe
- Library Collection Record1. aged and natural ecosystems, herbivory can have a major impact on plant growth. Defoliation and shoot removal reduce the photosynthetic capacity of plants and are also thought to reduce allocation…Publication Date 2010
- fertiliser
- ecosystem ecology
- invertebrates
- arbuscular myccorrhyiza
- clipping
- defoliation
- ectomycorrhiza
- grazing
- insect herbivory
- land use
- meta-analysis
- mowing
- grasses
- Library Collection Record1. We discuss a simple implicit-space model for the competition of trees and grasses in an idealized savanna environment. The model represents patch occupancy dynamics within the habitat and…Publication Date 2010
- modelling
- grasses
- ecosystem ecology
- vegetation dynamics
- demographic structure
- fire
- multiple stable states
- savanna
- stable and unstable species coexistence
- stochastic disturbance
- tree seedlings
- Library Collection RecordAccording to the insurance hypothesis, more diverse plant communities are more likely to be resistant to drought. Whilst many experiments have been carried out to determine the effects of plant…Publication Date 2013
- biomass-dependent hypothesis
- drought
- ecosystem stability
- global change
- insurance hypothesis
- isotopes
- plant hierarchy
- plant-climate interactions
- precipitation
- ecosystem ecology
- grassland
- Library Collection RecordUbiquitous linear developments, such as dirt tracks and firebreaks, termed ‘soft’ linear developments (SLD), represent weaker landscape modifications than paved roads and highways but still could…Publication Date 2013
- biodiversity
- connectivity
- dirt tracks
- endozoochory
- firebreaks
- fragmentation
- human structures
- linear developments
- Mediterranean scrubland
- reforestation
- seeds
- restoration ecology
- ecosystem ecology
- Spain
- Library Collection RecordDespite their low relative abundance, subordinate plant species may have larger impacts on ecosystem functioning than expected, but their role in plant communities remains poorly understood. The aim…Publication Date 2013
- arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
- bacteria
- biomass production
- litter decomposition
- plant-soil feedbacks
- soil respiration
- ecosystem ecology
- grasslands
- species diversity
- soils
- invertebrates
- Jura Mountains
- Switzerland
- Library Collection Record1. Plants mediate multiple interactions between below-ground (BG) and above-ground (AG) heterotrophic communities that have no direct physical contact. These interactions can be positive or negative…Publication Date 2011
- Food webs
- induced defence
- Induced resistance
- plant-herbivore interactions
- plant-insect interactions
- plant-microbe interactions
- soil communities
- systemic induction
- tritrophic interactions
- ecosystem ecology
- Library Collection RecordMacroclimatic variation along latitudinal gradients provides an excellent natural laboratory to investigate the role of temperature and the potential impacts of climate warming on terrestrial…Publication Date 2013
- altitudinal gradients
- climate change
- common garden experiments
- experimental warming
- functional life-history traits
- global warming
- latitude
- plant-climate interactions
- transplant experiments
- temperature
- ecosystem ecology
- Library Collection Record1. Understanding the processes by which species sort themselves into communities remains a central puzzle for attempts to maintain biodiversity. It remains unclear whether any single assembly process…Publication Date 2011
- grasslands
- plant production
- ecosystem ecology
- disturbance
- Coexistence
- Complementarity
- fertilization
- functional trait
- Meadow
- mowing
- null model
- plant population and community dynamics
- productivity
- removal
- South Bohemia
- Czech Republic
- Library Collection RecordEcosystems have a critical role in regulating climate, and soil, water and air quality, but management to change an ecosystem process in support of one regulating ecosystem service can either provide…Publication Date 2013
- co-benefit
- Ecosystem service
- policy
- regulating service
- trade-off
- cattle
- grazing
- climate change
- soils
- management
- ecosystem ecology
- United Kingdom
- Library Collection Record1. Clonal plants benefit from the ability to translocate resources among interconnected ramets to colonize heterogeneous habitats. Clonal integration affects the resource level and morphological…Publication Date 2010
- Alien invasive species
- ecosystem ecology
- Alternanthera philoxeroides
- Biological invasion
- chlorophyll
- nitrogen
- photosynthesis
- photosynthetic acclimation
- Phyla canescens
- physiological integration
- respiration
- Translocation
- Queensland
- Australia
- Library Collection RecordAllelopathy has traditionally been viewed as a phytotoxic disruption of recipient plant metabolism, and allelopathic effects are generally strongest on species lacking historic exposure to particular…Publication Date 2014
- grasslands
- ecosystem ecology
- allelopathy
- autotoxicity
- Centaurea maculosa
- competition avoidance strategy
- historic interactions
- intraspecific recognition
- novel weapons hypothesis
- plant population and community dynamics
- spatiotemporal biodiversity
- sympatric species recognition
- germination
- United States
- Argentina
- Library Collection Record1. Plant defence theory provides a robust framework for understanding interactions between plants and antagonists, and for interpreting broad patterns in the functional-trait composition of plant…Publication Date 2011
- physical dormancy
- physiological dormancy
- plant defence theory
- plant-herbivore interactions
- plant pathogens
- seed-infecting fungi
- seed persistence
- soil seed bank
- seeds
- ecosystem ecology
- Library Collection Record1. Shifts in the spatial and temporal patterns of flowering could affect the resources available to pollinators, and such shifts might become more common as climate change progresses. 2. As mid-…Publication Date 2011
- ecosystem ecology
- temperature
- climate change
- cumulative flowering density
- flower abundance
- Flowering phenology
- plant-climate interactions
- pollinators
- resource availability
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
- Rocky Mountains
- USA