Functional traits of graminoids in semi-arid steppes: a test of grazing histories

By P. Adler, D. Milchunas, W. Lauenroth, O. Sala, I. Burke. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Forestry, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Which plant traits determine abundance under long‐term shifts in soil resource availability and grazing intensity? (2012, background): “…identified as a primary axis of functional variation among species, both when several traits were compared across fewer species (Grime et al. 1997; Adler et al. 2004) and when fewer traits were compared across many species (Reich, Walters & Ellsworth 1997; Dı́az et al. 2004; Wright et al. 2004).”
Moving beyond heterogeneity and process complexity: A new vision for watershed hydrology (2007, background): “For example, plant stature and seed size have evolved as a result of selective evolutionary pressure and are deemed to be a finger print of past climate [e.g., Adler et al., 2004].”
An integrated perspective to explain nitrogen mineralization in grazed ecosystems (2013, background): “…shift in plant species composition, his can lead to either lower or higher vegetation quality (Milchunas nd Lauenroth, 1993; Biondini et al., 1998; Adler et al., 2004; Zhang t al., 2008; Shan et al., 2011), often irrespective of changes in N ineralization (Biondini et al., 1998; Shan et al.,…”
Plant functional types: are we getting any closer to the Holy Grail? (2007, background): “There have been suggestions in the literature, based on pair-wise regional comparsions (Díaz et al. 2001, Adler et al. 2004, 2005), that evolutionary history of grazing by ungulates, as well as habitat productivity, determine what plant traits are favoured by grazing.”
Plant trait responses to grazing – a global synthesis (2007, background): “As a result, most current models of plant trait responses (see Briske, 1996 for review) are extrapolated from these local studies, and there are very few examples of comparisons of grazing effects between regions with contrasting climates and/or evolutionary histories of herbivory (Bock et al., 1995”
Grazing‐induced shifts in community functional composition and soil nutrient availability in Tibetan alpine meadows (2016, background): “…especially true in grasslands dominated by perennial species where grazing can have relatively little effect on species occurrence and/ or relative abundance in the short term (Adler et al. 2004; de Bello, Lep s & Sebastia 2005; Cingolani, Posse & Collantes 2005; Niu et al. 2010; Volf et al. 2016).”
Response diversity determines the resilience of ecosystems to environmental change (2013, background): “Regarding the latter, theory and empirical evidence suggest that in rangeland ecosystems with a long history of grazing and aridity, traits for grazing resistance evolve convergently in multiple taxa (Adler et al., 2004; Cingolani, Noy-Meir & Diaz, 2005).”
Differential responses of plant functional trait to grazing between two contrasting dominant C3 and C4 species in a typical steppe of Inner Mongolia, China (2011, background): “Thus, the effect of grazing on the functional traits was also mediated by water availability (Adler et al. 2004; Osem et al. 2004; Pakeman 2004; Vesk et al. 2004).”
Effects of large herbivore exclusion on southern Mongolian desert steppes (2010, background): “However, as most of the Mongolian landscape has been grazed by livestock for millennia, and certainly even longer by wild large herbivores, reproduction may also have been subject to evolutionary adaptation to grazing (Mack and Thompson, 1982; Adler et al., 2004; Cingolani et al., 2005).”
Patterns and thresholds of grazing‐induced changes in community structure and ecosystem functioning: species‐level responses and the critical role of species traits (2017, background): “First, most grazing experiments only include grazed and ungrazed treatments (Milchunas & Lauenroth 1993; Adler et al. 2004; Frenette-Dussault et al. 2012), which are unable to identify thresholds.”