Mechanisms responsible for the positive diversity–productivity relationship in Minnesota grasslands

By J. R. Lambers, W. Stanley Harpole, David Tilman, J. M H Knops, Peter B. Reich. 2004

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

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Biodiversity, ecosystem function and plant traits in mature and immature plant communities (2005, background): “Interestingly, this effect also appears to be largely responsible for the apparent positive relationship between diversity and biomass in grasslands at Cedar Creek, MN, USA (Lambers et al. 2004).”
Legumes Functional Group Promotes Soil Organic Carbon and Nitrogen Storage by Increasing Plant Diversity (2017, background): “Second, the complementarity from the interaction of legumes and non-legumes species occurred maybe due to both facilitation and niche differentiation (Tilman, 1999; Lambers et al., 2004).”
Assembly of weed communities along a crop diversity gradient (2007, background): “The impact of cover crops on resource levels and weed communities observed in our study is consistent with observations from diversity studies performed in grassland systems that report strong species-specific effects on ecosystem functions (Tilman et al. 1997; Grime 1998; Schläpfer & Schmid 1999; L”
Potential of legume-based grassland–livestock systems in Europe: a review (2013, background): “…grass-lands have shown that biomass production was enhanced in species-rich swards, compared with the average monoculture yield (Spehn et al. , 2002; Hille Ris Lambers et al. , 2004; Hooper and Dukes, 2004; Hooper et al. , 2005; Roscher et al. , 2005; Marquard et al. , 2009; Mommer et al. , 2010).”
Root depth distribution and the diversity–productivity relationship in a long‐term grassland experiment (2013, background): “…to C3 grasses and forbs, the extensive root systems and low N tissues of C4 grasses probably allow greater uptake of legumederived N and more efficient conversion of this N into biomass (HilleRisLambers et al. 2004, Fargione and Tilman 2005b, 2006, Fargione et al. 2007, Fornara and Tilman 2008).”
A functional trait-based approach to understand community assembly and diversity-productivity relationships over 7 years in experimental grasslands (2013, background): “These results are in line with those 488 reported from a strongly N-limited system (Cedar Creek), where combinations of nitrogen-489 fixing legumes and C4 grasses, which are superior competitors for soil nitrogen, caused the 490 positive diversity-productivity relationships and positive complementar”
Reconciling plant strategy theories of Grime and Tilman (2005, background): “A triangle of species and habitats was described, in which slow-growing species that inhabited low-fertility, low-disturbance sites were called ‘stress-tolerators’, fast-growing species that inhabited high-fertility, lowdisturbance sites were called ‘competitors’ and fast-growing species that…”
Resilience in ecology: Abstraction, distraction, or where the action is? (2014, result): “perspective is consistent with emerging empirical evidence that suggests the importance of combinations of complementary functional groups, such as N2-fixing legumes with grass species, for determining ecosystem productivity in grasslands (Lambers et al., 2004; Marquard et al., 2009) and thus may al”
Novel forests maintain ecosystem processes after the decline of native tree species (2012, result): “This pattern is consistent with ‘‘overyielding’’ as observed in manipulative biodiversity experiments in which higher production of biomass by a species in high-diversity plots is observed compared to lower production by the same species in monoculture (HilleRisLambers et al. 2004).”
Recent advances in ecological stoichiometry: insights for population and community ecology (2005, background): “:P ratio competitive outcome and population dynamics of two bacterial competitors model freshwater Grover 2004 Light and nutrient supply competitive outcome of two herbivores model generic Hall 2004 Gradients of light, P, and predation risk effects of P on composition of herbivore species field fres”
Plant functional composition influences rates of soil carbon and nitrogen accumulation (2008, background): “This complementarity likely occurred because of both facilitation and niche differentiation (Hooper & Vitousek 1997; Tilman 1999; Lambers et al. 2004; Spehn et al. 2005; Brooker et al. 2008), especially among these two functional groups.”
Long‐term enhancement of agricultural production by restoration of biodiversity (2006, background): “Other studies that have extended beyond 3 years have found a maintained effect of species richness on productivity (HilleRisLambers et al. 2004; Hooper & Dukes 2004; Hofmann & Isselstein 2005; Schläpfer, Pfisterer & Schmid 2005; van Ruijven & Berendse 2005) and some have even shown an increase in th”
Little evidence for limiting similarity in a long‐term study of a roadside plant community (2010, methodology): “To calculate FD we used 23 traits (Table 1) that have been suggested to play a role in niche partitioning (Hooper 1998; Westoby et al. 2002; Lambers et al. 2004; van Ruijven & Berendse 2005; Vojtech et al. 2008).”