The Ecological Significance of the Herbaceous Layer in Temperate Forest Ecosystems

By F. S. Gilliam. 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Citations in the corpus

Understory succession in post-agricultural oak forests: Habitat fragmentation affects forest specialists and generalists differently (2011, methodology): “This has potentially large effects on environmental sorting, and may result in floristic homogenization (Gilliam, 2007; Vellend et al., 2007).”
Plant species diversity in alien black locust stands: a paired comparison with native stands across a north-Mediterranean range expansion. (2012, background): “, light availability and soil fertility) are generally thought to be influenced by the tree-layer composition and in turn to be able to influence the dynamics of the ground-layer species (Muller, 2003; Neufeld and Young, 2003; Gilliam, 2007).”
Driving factors behind the eutrophication signal in understorey plant communities of deciduous temperate forests (2012, background): “This finding is yet another example of the importance of under- storey–overstorey interactions in forests (Gilliam 2007).”
Linking resource availability and heterogeneity to understorey species diversity through succession in boreal forest of Canada (2018, background): “The herbaceous layer contains the greatest plant diversity in boreal and temperate forest ecosystems and contributes substantially to ecosystem functioning and services (Gilliam, 2007; Halpern & Spies, 1995; Hart & Chen, 2006; Nilsson & Wardle, 2005; Zhang, Chen, & Taylor, 2017).”
Positive species diversity and above‐ground biomass relationships are ubiquitous across forest strata despite interference from overstorey trees (2017, background): “Overstorey trees impose competitive constraints on understorey vegetation because of their size, altering above- and below-ground resource availability such as light, water and space, especially for the shrub and herbaceous layers (Gilliam, Turrill & Adams 1995; Gilliam 2007; Mason et al. 2011).”
Global assessment of nitrogen deposition effects on terrestrial plant diversity: a synthesis. (2010, background): “The most diverse vegetation stratum of temperate forests is the herbaceous layer (Gilliam 2007).”
The roles of environmental filtering and colonization in the fine‐scale spatial patterning of ground‐layer plant communities in north temperate deciduous forests (2011, background): “that the effects of overstorey composition and structure on soil resources is an additional mechanism for observed linkages between overstorey and understorey vegetation later in succession (e.g. Gilliam, Turrill & Adams 1995; Gilliam 2007).”
Changes in forest structure and species composition following invasion by a non-indigenous shrub, Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii) (2008, background): “Invasives can impact the both the short and long-term interactions of species as well as cause displacement of individuals; therefore they can trigger a complex set of new interactions with the invaders themselves, among existing species, and with other coinvaders (Gilliam 2007).”
Effects of experimental nitrogen additions on plant diversity in an old‐growth tropical forest (2010, methodology): “The second finding provides sharp contrast to competition-based mechanisms suggested in studies of understory communities in temperate and boreal forests (Bobbink et al., 1998, 2010; Strengbom et al., 2001; Gilliam, 2006, 2007).”
Direct and indirect effects of alien insect herbivores on ecological processes and interactions in forests of eastern North America (2010, background): “The herbaceous plant layer can exert strong control over ecological processes in temperate forest ecosystems (Zak et al. 1990; Gilliam 2007).”