Fertilization with nitrogen and phosphorus increases abundance of non-native species in Hawaiian montane forests

By R. Ostertag, J. Verville. Plant Ecology, 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

1. S. Allison
2. K. Treseder
3. O. Eriksson
4. K. Verheyen
5. R. Ostertag
6. R. F. Hughes
7. M. Wulf
8. Martin Hermy

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. S. Allison
2. K. Verheyen
3. Martin Hermy
4. R. F. Hughes
5. O. Eriksson
6. V. Thomson
7. M. Leishman
8. J. Brunet

Citations in the corpus

• Global change effects on humid tropical forests: Evidence for biogeochemical and biodiversity shifts at an ecosystem scale (2016, background): “In Hawaii, N fertilization led to declines in understory plant species richness (herbaceous plants and tree seedlings) in forests on N-poor soils, whereas plant biodiversity was not altered by N fertilization at a site with N-rich soils [Ostertag and Verville, 2002].”
• Faster returns on ‘leaf economics’ and different biogeochemical niche in invasive compared with native plant species (2009, unknown): “N and P fertilization have already been reported to increase the abundance of alien species in Hawaiian forests (Ostertag & Verville, 2002).”
• Microbial activity and soil respiration under nitrogen addition in Alaskan boreal forest (2008, background): “This increased N availability can have serious consequences, including altered species composition (Ostertag & Verville, 2002), changes in biological diversity (Suding et al., 2005), N saturation (Aber et al., 1989), and increased N losses (Hall & Matson, 1999).”
• Foliar nitrogen and phosphorus accumulation responses after fertilization: an example from nutrient-limited Hawaiian forests (2010, background): “The effect on nutrient addition on plant community structure was not investigated here because past research at these sites has shown that species diversity was not altered with fertilization, although the abundance of the non-native species increased (Ostertag and Verville 2002).”
• Driving factors behind the eutrophication signal in understorey plant communities of deciduous temperate forests (2012, background): “Some experimental N addition studies also found positive (Hurteau & North 2008) or mixed (Ostertag & Verville 2002) effects on understorey species rich- ness, whereas others found negative effects (Strengbom et al. 2001).”
• INVASION BY A N2-FIXING TREE ALTERS FUNCTION AND STRUCTURE IN WET LOWLAND FORESTS OF HAWAII (2005, background): “Invasibility may increase with increased nutrient supply (Huenneke et al. 1990, Davis et al. 2000, Ostertag and Verville 2002) or altered disturbance regimes (Mack and D’Antonio 1998, Mack et al. 2001).”
• Global assessment of nitrogen deposition effects on terrestrial plant diversity: a synthesis. (2010, unknown): “Ostertag and Verville (2002) applied 100 kg N ha 1 yr 1 for at least 10 years to a stand of wet montane forest on young soils (200–400 years old; N limited) and to a stand on very old soils (;4.1 million years old; P limited) on Hawaii.”
• Experimental evidence for the effects of additional water, nutrients and physical disturbance on invasive plants in low fertility Hawkesbury Sandstone soils, Sydney, Australia (2005, background): “2002; Ostertag & Verville 2002; Bashkin et al .”
• Conservation of oceanic island floras: present and future global challenges. (2010, background): “…for many oceanic islands (Vitousek, 2004; Kueffer, 2009), oceanic island vegetation may be especially sensitive to even relatively small nutrient changes, as illustrated by the well-known fertilization-driven vegetation changes on islands (Ostertag and Verville, 2002; Hughes and Denslow, 2005).”