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DOI | 10.1111/jvs.12164 |
Transitions from grassland to savanna under drought through passive facilitation by grasses | |
de Dios, Victor Resco1; Weltzin, Jake F.5; Sun, Wei2; Huxman, Travis E.6; Williams, David G.3,4 | |
通讯作者 | de Dios, Victor Resco |
来源期刊 | JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE
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ISSN | 1100-9233 |
EISSN | 1654-1103 |
出版年 | 2014 |
卷号 | 25期号:4页码:937-946 |
英文摘要 | Questions: Woody plant encroachment into former grasslands currently represents a major physiognomic shift globally. Seedling establishment is a critical demographic bottleneck and is considered to be alleviated by increases in water availability and negatively impacted by interactions with grasses, particularly when water stress increases. However, interactions with grasses that are not actively competing for resources (’passive interactions’ when grasses are dead) has seldom been considered. Could the transition from a live to a dead grass (litter) canopy favour recruitment of woody seedlings in a semi-arid grassland of the American SW? How does the sign and intensity of grass-seedling interactions change across drastically different summer precipitation regimes with and without passive interactions? Location: Sonoran Desert shrub savanna at the Santa Rita Experimental Range, near Tucson, AZ, US. Methods: Four cohorts of Prosopis velutina seeds were planted annually (20022005) under rainout shelters that intercepted all incoming precipitation on a soil with sandy loam texture. Summer precipitation was manipulated to simulate either a 50% increase or decrease in the long-termmean, and cover was manipulated to simulate a grassland dominated by the C-4 bunchgrass Heteropogon contortus or left unvegetated. Emergence and survival of P. velutina was monitored and compared across cover types, along with monitoring of soil water content and light interception. Results: Strong active competition was observed with live grasses, under both summer drought and also under ample summer water supply. However, the pattern was reversed and strong passive facilitation of P. velutina was observed over time when grass canopies died and remained in place. This passive facilitation under dry summers was so strong that recruitment under dead grass conditions was comparable to that observed when ample water supply removed the effects of competition on unvegetated plots. Conclusions: After significant mortality of standing grass canopies, which typically compete for limited soil moisture resources, rates of recruitment by shrubs may increase even with significant seasonal drought. This work extends our understanding of interactions among co-located organisms and their effects on plant community dynamics, and introduces a new hypothesis on how grass litter facilitates woody plant encroachment during seasonal droughts. |
英文关键词 | Grass litter Plant mortality Precipitation shifts Seedling establishment Tree-grass interactions Woody plant encroachment |
类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Australia ; Peoples R China ; USA |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000340572000005 |
WOS关键词 | WOODY PLANT ENCROACHMENT ; TEMPERATE SAVANNA ; SOIL-MOISTURE ; RECRUITMENT ; COMPETITION ; VEGETATION ; DYNAMICS ; LITTER ; GROWTH ; ESTABLISHMENT |
WOS类目 | Plant Sciences ; Ecology ; Forestry |
WOS研究方向 | Plant Sciences ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Forestry |
资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/183729 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Western Sydney, Hawkesbury Inst Environm, Richmond, NSW 2753, Australia; 2.NE Normal Univ, Inst Grassland Sci, Key Lab Vegetat Ecol, Minist Educ, Changchun 130024, Jilin, Peoples R China; 3.Univ Wyoming, Dept Bot, Laramie, WY 82071 USA; 4.Univ Wyoming, Dept Ecosyst Sci & Management, Laramie, WY 82071 USA; 5.Univ Tennessee, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Knoxville, TN 37996 USA; 6.Univ Calif Irvine, Irvine, CA 92629 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | de Dios, Victor Resco,Weltzin, Jake F.,Sun, Wei,et al. Transitions from grassland to savanna under drought through passive facilitation by grasses[J],2014,25(4):937-946. |
APA | de Dios, Victor Resco,Weltzin, Jake F.,Sun, Wei,Huxman, Travis E.,&Williams, David G..(2014).Transitions from grassland to savanna under drought through passive facilitation by grasses.JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE,25(4),937-946. |
MLA | de Dios, Victor Resco,et al."Transitions from grassland to savanna under drought through passive facilitation by grasses".JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE 25.4(2014):937-946. |
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