Biotic Impoverishment and Homogenization in Unfragmented Forest Understory Communities

By T. Rooney, Shannon M. Wiegmann, D. Rogers, D. Waller. 2004

421 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Insect Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/2ab8763275e39f8bb1b54c056c4197bf35358259

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Ecology

In Insect Science

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

Citations in the corpus

Which Traits Influence Bird Survival in the City? A Review (2021, background): “This capability might differ according to season, geographic region, or city structure [9], but such species of urban utilizers can tolerate a wider range of environmental conditions [19] and they appear to exhibit similar characteristics globally [20,21].”
Worldwide decline of specialist species: toward a global functional homogenization? (2011, background): “© The Ecological Society of America www.frontiersinecology.org During the past decade, several important studies haverevealed declines in specialist species, including plants (Rooney et al. 2004), coral reef fish (Munday 2004), birds (Julliard et al. 2004), and mammals (Fisher et al. 2003).”
Forecasting faunal and floral homogenization associated with human population geography in North America (2006, methodology): “…2004), for birds and reptiles/amphibians we selected IE4 (see Blair, 2004 for birds) and for plants and mammals we averaged the predictions from scenarios IE3 and IE4 given our uncertainty in the relative roles of these two mechanisms for biotic homogenization (see Rooney et al., 2004 for plants).”
Ecosystem and competition impacts of introduced deer (2008, positive): “…and ultimately forest canopies through their impacts on regeneration, generally with an increase in unpalatable species or those resistant to browsing (Kirby 2001; Horsley et al. 2003; Joys et al. 2004; Rooney et al. 2004; Stone et al. 2004; Focardi and Tinelli 2005; Gill and Fuller 2007).”
Restoring forest herb communities through landscape-level deer herd reductions: Is recovery limited by legacy effects? (2010, background): “surveys (Potvin et al., 2003; Rooney et al., 2004; Taverna et al., 2005; Tanentzap et al., 2009).”
Taxonomic and functional homogenization of an endemic desert fish fauna (2012, background): “Recent studies have demonstrated that taxonomic homogenization is not an ecosystem or taxon-specific phenomenon, but occurs across a broad spectrum of plants and animals (e.g. McKinney, 2004; Rooney et al., 2004; Schwartz et al., 2006; La Sorte & McKinney, 2006; Qian & Guo, 2010; reviewed in Olden, ”
Biotic homogenization: a new research agenda for conservation biogeography (2006, background): “Rooney et al. (2004) found that floral homogenization was associated with declines in the relative abundance of animal-pollinated and animal-dispersed species, suggesting that guild structure has changed over time.”
Top-down and bottom-up consequences of unchecked ungulate browsing on plant and animal diversity in temperate forests: lessons from a deer introduction (2010, neutral): “This dramatic process of biotic homogenization (McKinney and Lockwood 1999) is precisely what has been suggested for eastern forests with high deer populations ( Rooney et al. 2004, and review in Co ˆte ´ et al. 2004), and is suspected in areas of Europe that have already experienced decades of hig”
Do non‐native species invasions lead to biotic homogenization at small scales? The similarity and functional diversity of habitats compared for alien and native components of Mediterranean floras (2008, background): “diversity, to invade and homogenize multiple habitats, and may ultimately spread rapidly to become widely distributed at a regional level (Prach & Pysek, 1999; Rooney et al., 2004).”
Biotic homogenization and conservation prioritization (2007, background): “Consider the study of Rooney et al. (2004) who sampled 62 local communities in temperate forests of the upper Midwestern United States, and found the mean Bray-Curtis pairwise floristic similarity among sites to increase slightly over a 50 year period, from 30.8% to 33.5%.”
A perfect storm: two ecosystem engineers interact to degrade deciduous forests of New Jersey (2008, background): “Given their strong influence on forest structure and composition, it should not be surprising that when white-tailed deer reach very high abundances, their effects can be huge (Augustine and Frelich 1998; Rooney and Waller 2003; Rooney et al. 2004).”
Widespread plant species: natives versus aliens in our changing world (2011, background): “First, most studies focus on continental or smaller scales (e.g. for plants: Rejmánek 2000; McKinney and Lockwood 2001; Rooney et al. 2004; Qian and Ricklefs 2006; Castro and Jaksic 2008, Winter et al. 2008; fishes: Olden and Poff 2003; Leprieur et al. 2008; birds: La Sorte and Boecklen 2005; Van…”
The agroecological matrix as alternative to the land-sparing/agriculture intensification model (2010, background): “(65) demonstrated dramatic changes in species composition in plots embedded in natural forest communities in the northern Great Lakes region of the United States.”