Dominant species maintain ecosystem function with non‐random species loss

By Melinda D. Smith, A. Knapp. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Biodiversity, ecosystem function and plant traits in mature and immature plant communities (2005, background): “These subordinates contribute both to increased species richness and (because they differ in many key respects from the dominants) to increased functional diversity, but have little impact on total biomass (Smith & Knapp 2003).”
Leaf dry matter content as a predictor of grassland litter decomposition: a test of the ‘mass ratio hypothesis’ (2011, background): “This implies that the relative biomass of plants and the values of their functional effect traits drive ecosystem process and can be used to predict the rates of these processes (Vile et al. 2006) and that ecosystem functioning at a given point in time is chiefly determined by the trait values of th”
Response diversity determines the resilience of ecosystems to environmental change (2013, background): “Dominant species may often play a crucial role in maintaining ecosystem processes (Smith & Knapp, 2003; Hillebrand, Bennett & Cadotte, 2008), though the contention surrounding this issue is illustrated by the differing perspectives on Grime (1998)’s mass ratio hypothesis (e.g. McLaren & Turkington,…”
Ecosystem properties determined by plant functional group identity (2010, result): “Previous studies reported effects of species or functional group identity on soil nutrients (Aerts, Verhoeven & Whigham 1999; Reich et al. 2001b; Scherer-Lorenzen et al. 2003; Spehn et al. 2005), although other studies detected no differences (Symstad & Tilman 2001; Van der Krift & Berendse 2001;…”
Species diversity and productivity: why do results of diversity‐manipulation experiments differ from natural patterns? (2009, background): “Consistent with this idea, Smith & Knapp (2003) reported no effect of plant diversity on primary productivity in a tallgrass prairie experiment that removed only the subordinate grass species and therefore left primary productivity being controlled by productive dominant grasses.”
Tradeoffs and thresholds in the effects of nitrogen addition on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: evidence from inner Mongolia Grasslands (2010, result): “Our findings were also corroborated by a recent study indicating that the increased production of dominant species compensated the negative effect of nonrandom species loss (Smith & Knapp, 2003).”
Dominance not richness determines invasibility of tallgrass prairie. (2004, background): “Drought, fragmentation or altered disturbance regimes are known to cause this type of nonrandom loss of species from grasslands (Smith and Knapp 2003).”
Propagule pools mediate community assembly and diversity‐ecosystem regulation along a grassland productivity gradient (2004, methodology): “In this light, we might interpret our results in terms of the sampling probability effect (Huston 1997; Wardle 1999; Ruijven & Berendse 2003; Smith & Knapp 2003 ) and argue that by exposing our plots to a more diverse array of potential colonists than is typically found in the propagule rain to loc”
Dominance and compensatory growth in phytoplankton communities under salinity stress (2010, background): “This indicates that, as it is the case for ecosystem processes in most systems (Grime, 1998; Smith and Knapp, 2003), biomass production in our experiments was determined by dominant species.”
Decline in a dominant invertebrate species contributes to altered carbon cycling in a low‐diversity soil ecosystem (2008, result): “Similar results have been reported in other studies from temperate environments where abundance of particular species (Smith & Knapp, 2003; Cole et al., 2004; Dangles & Malmqvist, 2004) or functional differences among species (Heemsbergen et al., 2004) were more important than the influence of…”
Overyielding in experimental grassland communities - irrespective of species pool or spatial scale (2005, background): “Recent results of removal experiments reducing species number in a non-random fashion provided evidence that dominant species can sometimes control ecosystem functioning (Smith & Knapp 2003; Zavaleta & Hulvey 2004).”
Defining the limit to resistance in a drought‐tolerant grassland: long‐term severe drought significantly reduces the dominant species and increases ruderals (2011, background): “…about the role of the dominant species with questions about the response of the dominant species to novel disturbances will be a useful approach (Smith & Knapp 2003), and will allow us to develop generalized responses to severe disturbances across ecosystems with a similar community structure.”
Biodiversity and extinction: the importance of being common (2008, background): “(1) the total loss and reductions in density of the dominant grass species in an experimental native prairie tallgrass plot reduced total above-ground net primary productivity, whereas the equivalent loss of rare plant species had no shortterm effect (Smith and Knapp, 2003); (2) experimental changes”