Loss of plant species after chronic low-level nitrogen deposition to prairie grasslands

By C. Clark, David Tilman. Nature, 2008

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In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. Yongfei Bai
2. Peter B. Reich
3. David Tilman
4. S. Hobbie
5. K. Thompson
6. F. Isbell
7. C. Stevens
8. Lin Jiang

In Plant Science

1. Peter B. Reich
2. C. Stevens
3. M. Bradford
4. S. Hobbie
5. Noah Fierer
6. David Tilman
7. P. Christie
8. C. Lauber

In Soil Science

1. Peter B. Reich
2. C. Lauber
3. Noah Fierer
4. Rob Knight
5. M. Bradford
6. S. Hobbie
7. David Tilman
8. Kelly S. Ramirez

Citations in the corpus

• Tradeoffs and thresholds in the effects of nitrogen addition on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: evidence from inner Mongolia Grasslands (2010, background): “Although the currently estimated values of these thresholds have been called into question (Stevens et al., 2004; Clark & Tilman, 2008), their hypothesized existence forms the backbone of a substantial body of environmental legislation on transboundary pollution (NEGTAP, 2001).”
• The world‐wide ‘fast–slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto (2014, background): “9, right panel) dominate at high N availability and usurp resources leading to reduced species diversity via competitive exclusion (Clark & Tilman 2008), but those with long root life span (Reich et al. 2001) and capacity to draw down soil N concentrations (Tilman & Wedin 1991) dominate at low N…”
• Nitrogen enrichment enhances the dominance of grasses over forbs in a temperate steppe ecosystem (2011, background): “These are consistent with the findings of Clark and Tilman (2008) who reported that even N additions as low as 10 kg N ha−1 yr−1 led to a significant loss of sensitive grass species in an acidic grassland in Minnesota and the cessation of N addition for a decade can result in recovery of the main…”
• Direct and productivity‐mediated indirect effects of fertilization, mowing and grazing on grassland species richness (2012, background): “…in productivity (Grime 1973; Silvertown 1980; Gough et al. 2000; Loreau 2000; Rajaniemi 2002; Schmid 2002; Stevens et al. 2004; Crawley et al. 2005; Kahmen et al. 2005; Harpole & Tilman 2007; Clark & Tilman 2008) and clearly attributes most of it to the indirect pathway via increased productivity.”
• Atmospheric nitrogen deposition in terrestrial ecosystems: Its impact on plant communities and consequences across trophic levels (2018, background): “Impacts of N 2 enrichment have been observed in a large number of N addition experiments (e.g. Bobbink & 3 Willems 1987; Clark & Tilman 2008; Horswill et al. 2008) as well as regional surveys (e.g. Stevens et 4 al.”
• Plant diversity enhances productivity and soil carbon storage (2018, background): “, N deposition, road density) has substantially altered biodiversity and ecosystem functions across all terrestrial biomes (18, 19).”
• A review and application of the evidence for nitrogen impacts on ecosystem services (2014, background): “, 2008) subsequently affect other soil or water mediated processes such as N leaching, or biological processes including flowering, alteration of competitive relationships between species, nutrient imbalances or nitrogen saturation, and indirect impacts mediated by changes in stoichiometry (Clark an”
• Nitrogen inputs accelerate phosphorus cycling rates across a wide variety of terrestrial ecosystems. (2012, neutral): “Further, this perturbation can result in divergent outcomes for the terrestrial biosphere: whereas excess N appears to enhance carbon dioxide (CO2) uptake in some cases, it decreases plant biomass and diversity in others (Aber et al., 1989; Clark & Tilman, 2008; Thomas et al., 2010).”
• Interactive effects of anthropogenic nitrogen enrichment and climate change on terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity (2013, background): “Overall declines in plant diversity associated with anthropogenic N deposition, described primarily in grasslands (Stevens et al. 2004, 2010; Clark and Tilman 2008; Dupré et al. 2010; Maskell et al. 2010), will affect dispersal and establishment by decreasing the pool of plant species available to m”
• Nitrogen deposition causes widespread loss of species richness in British habitats (2010, background): “Numerous experimental additions of N have demonstrated profound ecological effects in a variety of habitats (Morecroft et al. , 1994, Power et al. , 1995, Power et al. , 1998, Roem et al. , 2002, Carroll et al. , 2003, Clark and Tilman, 2008) .”
• Plant community responses to nitrogen addition and increased precipitation: the importance of water availability and species traits (2011, background): “Several mechanisms have been used to account for the reduction in species diversity under elevated N (Gough et al., 2000; Rajaniemi, 2002; Suding et al., 2005; Clark & Tilman, 2008).”
• Contribution of acidification and eutrophication to declines in species richness of calcifuge grasslands along a gradient of atmospheric nitrogen deposition (2010, background): “…in plant species richness at high levels of N deposition have been reported 78 from a number of experimental investigations (e.g. Bobbink et al 1998; Mountford et 79 al., 1993; Clark & Tilman, 2008; Suding et al. 2005) and in observational studies 80 (Stevens et al. 2004, Maskell et al, in press).”