Interactions after death: plant litter controls priority effects in a successional plant community

Oecologia ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Facelli ◽  
E. Facelli
Keyword(s):  
Plant Community ◽  
Plant Litter ◽  
Priority Effects ◽  
Successional Plant

Priority effects produced by plant litter result in non-additive competitive effects

Oecologia ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 157 (4) ◽  
pp. 687-696 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenton Ladd ◽  
José M. Facelli
Keyword(s):  
Plant Litter ◽  
Priority Effects ◽  
Competitive Effects

Comparison of Markovian matrix models of a primary successional plant community

1998 ◽  
Vol 107 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.Michael Childress ◽  
Charles M Crisafulli ◽  
Edward J Rykiel Jr
Keyword(s):  
Matrix Models ◽  
Plant Community ◽  
Successional Plant

scholarly journals Microbial community response to a decade of simulated global changes depends on the plant community

Elem Sci Anth ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarai S. Finks ◽  
Claudia Weihe ◽  
Sarah Kimball ◽  
Steven D. Allison ◽  
Adam C. Martiny ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Change ◽  
Community Composition ◽  
Plant Community ◽  
Plant Communities ◽  
Bacterial Community Composition ◽  
Community Response ◽  
Plant Litter ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Dependent Manner ◽  
Microbial Composition

Global changes such as increased drought and atmospheric nitrogen deposition perturb both the microbial and plant communities that mediate terrestrial ecosystem functioning. However, few studies consider how microbial responses to global changes may be influenced by interactions with plant communities. To begin to address the role of microbial–plant interactions, we tested the hypothesis that the response of microbial communities to global change depends on the plant community. We characterized bacterial and fungal communities from 395 plant litter samples taken from the Loma Ridge Global Change Experiment, a decade-long global change experiment in Southern California that manipulates rainfall and nitrogen levels across two adjacent ecosystems, a grassland and a coastal sage scrubland. The differences in bacterial and fungal composition between ecosystems paralleled distinctions in plant community composition. In addition to the direct main effects, the global change treatments altered microbial composition in an ecosystem-dependent manner, in support of our hypothesis. The interaction between the drought treatment and ecosystem explained nearly 5% of the variation in bacterial community composition, similar to the variation explained by the ecosystem-independent effects of drought. Unexpectedly, we found that the main effect of drought was approximately four times as strong on bacterial composition as that of nitrogen addition, which did not alter fungal or plant composition. Overall, the findings underscore the importance of considering plant–microbe interactions when considering the transferability of the results of global change experiments across ecosystems.

scholarly journals Fine‐root traits are linked to species dynamics in a successional plant community

Ecology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua S. Caplan ◽  
Scott J. Meiners ◽  
Habacuc Flores‐Moreno ◽  
M. Luke McCormack
Keyword(s):  
Plant Community ◽  
Fine Root ◽  
Root Traits ◽  
Species Dynamics ◽  
Successional Plant

Parasitic plant litter input: a novel indirect mechanism influencing plant community structure

2013 ◽  
Vol 198 (1) ◽  
pp. 222-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
James P. Fisher ◽  
Gareth K. Phoenix ◽  
Dylan Z. Childs ◽  
Malcolm C. Press ◽  
Stuart W. Smith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Plant Community ◽  
Parasitic Plant ◽  
Plant Litter ◽  
Plant Community Structure ◽  
Litter Input ◽  
Indirect Mechanism
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