Can grazing response of herbaceous plants be predicted from simple vegetative traits

By Sandra Díaz, I. Noy‐Meir, Marcelo R. Cabido. 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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SPECIES AND FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY OF NATIVE AND HUMAN-DOMINATED PLANT COMMUNITIES (2005, background): “Little attention has been given to traits that contribute to other aspects of ecosystem function, such as those associated with plant–animal interactions (Naeem et al. 1994, 1995, Mabry et al. 2000, Diaz et al. 2001).”
Simple traits do not predict grazing response in Australian dry shrublands and woodlands (2004, methodology): “5% to 30% for single traits, were operating (as found by Diaz, Noy-Meir & Cabido 2001 ) the present analyses should have detected them.”
The state of plant population modelling in light of environmental change (2008, background): “These questions are prominent in empirical studies on the effect of grazing and disturbance (e.g. McIntyre et al., 1995; Diaz et al., 2001), and on the process of invasion by alien plant species (e.g. review of Richardson and Pysek, 2006).”
Assessing functional diversity in the field - methodology matters! (2007, background): “Diaz, Noy-Meir & Cabido 2001; de Bello et al. 2005; del Pozo et al . 2006) or climate (e.g.”
Plant structural traits and their role in anti-herbivore defence (2007, background): “Close correlations between LMA and leaf mechanical properties such as punch strength, work to punch, work to shear and flexural stiffness have been widely demonstrated (Diaz et al., 2001; Iddles et al., 2003; Read and Sanson, 2003; Read et al., 2005; Peeters et al., 2007).”
The concept of overgrazing and its role in management of large herbivores (2006, background): “…for herbivore stability Plants with different morphological and physiological traits, so-called functional plant groups (sensu Lavorel et al. 1997), have different ability to either tolerate or resist grazing (Lavorel et al. 1997, McIntyre & Lavorel 2001, Bullock et al. 2001, Díaz et al. 2001).”
Differential responses of plant functional trait to grazing between two contrasting dominant C3 and C4 species in a typical steppe of Inner Mongolia, China (2011, background): “Díaz et al. (2001) proposed plant species responses to grazing could be predicted from simple traits, such as plant height, leaf size, life history, and SLA in subhumid grasslands.”
Cattle grazing increases plant species richness of most species trait groups in mesic semi-natural grasslands (2005, background): “…grazing, but the emerging patterns tend to differ between different studies Noy-Meir et al. 1989; Trémont 1994; McIntyre et al. 1995, 1999; Landsberg et al. 1999; Lavorel et al. 1999; Sternberg et al. 2000; Bullock et al. 2001; Díaz et al. 2001; Dupré and Diekmann 2001; McIntyre and Lavorel 2001 .”
Predictive value of plant traits to grazing along a climatic gradient in the Mediterranean (2005, methodology): “ Diaz, Noy-Meir & Cabido (2001) compared responses to grazing of similar herbaceous communities from subhumid grasslands in two continents, showing how plant height could be the best single predictor, followed by life span, leaf dimension and leaf specific area.”
From plant functional types to plant functional traits (2015, methodology): “FTs have been used recently to address a series of ecological problems including: (1) parameterizing DGVMs and constraining the parameters in a reasonable range (Dı́az et al., 2001; McGill et al., 2006; Pavlick et al., 2013; Scheiter et al., 2013; Swenson and Weiser, 2010); (2) providing aids in the”
Plant functional traits in studies of vegetation changes in response to grazing and mowing: towards a use of more specific traits (2008, background): “Despite the first encouraging results (Díaz et al. 2001), the same traits do not consistently indicate species’ responses to grazing under different environmental conditions (Vesk et al. 2004a, Osem et al. 2004, Pakeman 2004, de Bello et al. 2005).”
Temporal trends in species composition and plant traits in natural grasslands of Uruguay (2003, background): “Díaz et al. (2001), working with 83 species from Argentina and 19 from Israel, found that plant height was the trait more clearly associated to grazing.”