Soil water partitioning contributes to species coexistence in tallgrass prairie

By J. Nippert, A. Knapp. 2007

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Positive feedbacks amplify rates of woody encroachment in mesic tallgrass prairie (2011, methodology): “At KPBS, deep soil water is recharged by winter precipitation and because it is not a primary water source for grasses, this soil-water source is abundant and intra-annually stable (Macpherson 1996, Nippert and Knapp 2007b).”
Trait selection and community weighting are key to understanding ecosystem responses to changing precipitation regimes (2018, background): “…which can be identified from observations of species abundance along hydrologically defined niche space (Silvertown, Dodd, Gowing, & Mountford, 1999) and more recently demonstrated within the context of water availability using isotopic proxies for rooting depth (Nippert & Knapp, 2007).”
Shifts in plant functional composition following long‐term drought in grasslands (2019, background): “Forbs and shrubs tend to access deeper sources of soil water than grasses (Nippert & Knapp, 2007), a characteristic that has allowed them to persist during historical droughts (i.e. drought escape; Weaver, 1958) and may have allowed them to persist during our experimental drought.”
Endophyte symbiosis benefits a rare grass under low water availability (2008, background): “Root biomass may be critical for the survival and persistence of perennial C3 grasses, particularly under water stress and in competition with other plant species (e.g. Kemp & Culvenor 1994; Nippert & Knapp 2007).”
Ecohydrological advances and applications in plant-water relations research: a review (2011, background): “…soil depths, which often vary spatially and temporally between different plant functional types, can directly influence soil water dynamics during the growing season (Asbjornsen et al. 2008; Dalsgaard et al., 2011; Lu et al., 2011; Nippert and Knapp 2007a, 2007b; Ryel et al. 2008; Schwinning 2010).”
Biodiversity, phenology and temporal niche differences between native- and novel exotic-dominated grasslands (2011, background): “Rainfall amounts and patterns have been found to have significant effects on biomass and plant diversity of mesic grasslands (e.g. Grime et al., 2000; Knapp et al., 2002; Nippert and Knapp, 2007), and we also observed simple main effects from summer irrigation.”