Grassland species loss resulting from reduced niche dimension

By W. Stanley Harpole, David Tilman. Nature, 2007

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Stability of tallgrass prairie during a 19‐year increase in growing season precipitation (2012, background): “In general, nitrogen addition increases NPP and reduces species diversity in grasslands (Tilman 1987; Zavaleta et al. 2003; Stevens et al. 2004; Suding et al. 2005; Harpole & Tilman 2007; Yahdjian, Gherardi & Sala 2011).”
Rethinking Community Assembly through the Lens of Coexistence Theory (2012, background): “However, N addition can also reduce resource heterogeneity (Harpole & Tilman 2007), potentially affecting stabilizing niche differences and, thus, influencing diversity.”
The allometry of reproductive biomass in response to land use in Tibetan alpine grasslands. (2009, neutral): “2007; Harpole & Tilman 2007).”
Scaling from Traits to Ecosystems: Developing a General Trait Driver Theory via Integrating Trait-Based and Metabolic Scaling Theories (2015, background): “These plots were selected because of their contrasting botanical composition and species richness (Crawley et al., 2005; Harpole and Tilman, 2007).”
Complementarity among species in horizontal versus vertical rooting space (2008, background): “Despite good evidence for niche differences in rooting depth from other studies (Berendse 1982; Fargione and Tilman 2005; Fitter 1986; Mamolos et al. 1995; McKane et al. 1990; McKane et al. 2002; Parrish and Bazzaz 1976, e.g.), our results suggest that other mechanisms may also affect complementar”
The elemental stoichiometry of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems and its relationships with organismic lifestyle and ecosystem structure and function: a review and perspectives (2011, background): “Some studies of grassland and phytoplanktonic communities have shown that species diversity is correlated with the number of limiting resources (Interlandi and Kilham 2001; Harpole and Tilman 2007), thereby suggesting that high C:N and C:P ratios should be related to greater species diversity.”
Agriculture and biodiversity conservation: opportunity knocks (2008, background): “…have been particularly productive in this respect, providing insights into biodiversity and ecosystem function (Tilman et al. 2001; Tilman et al. 2006), community assembly (Fukami et al. 2005), and a mechanistic understanding of the impact of management on biodiversity (Harpole & Tilman 2007).”
Light, nutrients and grazing interact to determine diatom species richness via changes to productivity, nutrient state and grazer activity (2009, background): “Theory also predicts that species richness decreases if the number of limiting nutrients decreases (Interlandi & Kilham 2001; Harpole & Tilman 2007).”
Consequences of dominance: a review of evenness effects on local and regional ecosystem processes. (2008, background): “…changes, such as changes in disturbance regimes or nutrient eutrophication, can alter not only what species dominates locally, but also reduce amongpatch heterogeneity (Mouquet et al. 2006, Urban et al. 2006, Harpole and Tilman 2007), resulting in large-scale dominance and low beta diversity.”
Does phosphorus limitation promote species-rich plant communities? (2011, positive): “However, the observed difference in species richness (c. 7 species) appears rather high if it is due only to the transition from one limiting nutrient to two limiting nutrients (Harpole and Tilman 2007).”