Top predator control of plant biodiversity and productivity in an old‐field ecosystem

By Oswald J. Schmitz. 2003

245 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. J. Bruno
2. J. Emmett Duffy
3. M. O’Connor
4. Brian J. Wilsey
5. Michel Loreau
6. Élisa Thébault
7. Peter B. Reich
8. Aaron J. Wirsing

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. J. Bruno
2. J. Emmett Duffy
3. Aaron J. Wirsing
4. M. O’Connor
5. Michel Loreau
6. Michael R. Heithaus
7. Brian J. Wilsey
8. Peter B. Reich

In Plant Science

1. D. R. Chalcraft
2. S. Strauss
3. Michel Loreau
4. W. Weisser
5. E. Siemann
6. J. Bruno
7. Jennifer A. Lau
8. Élisa Thébault

Citations in the corpus

• Ecological and evolutionary implications of food subsidies from humans. (2013, background): “…altering vegetation structure and plant species turnover at the expense of native taxa (Vidal et al. 2000; van der Wal et al. 2008; Baumberger et al. 2012), in turn affecting beetle and vertebrate communities by favouring certain assemblages (Orgeas et al. 2003; Schmitz 2003; Caut et al. 2012).”
• A brown‐world cascade in the dung decomposer food web of an alpine meadow: effects of predator interactions and warming (2011, background): “Top-down control by predators has proven to be strong in aquatic systems (Shurin et al. 2002), grasslands (Schmitz 2003), intertidal rocky shores (Paine 2002), and wetlands (Finke and Denno 2004, Duffy et al. 2005), all of which are systems involving food webs based on living plants.”
• Insect herbivores drive important indirect effects of exotic plants on native communities (2005, background): “Such indirect effects can take many forms (e.g., indirect mutualism, apparent competition) and can influence population growth (Power 1990, Wootton 1993), community structure, and species coexistence (Holt 1977, Menge 1995, Schmitz 1998, 2003).”
• Species richness and evenness respond in a different manner to propagule density in developing prairie microcosm communities (2007, unknown): “Variation in evenness may regulate diversity in sites with moderate disturbance like grazing (McNaughton 1977; King and Pimm 1983; Shaffers 2002; Schmitz 2003; Martin and Wilsey 2006), when grazing lowers the amount of dominance by common species but no new migrants are gained or lost.”
• Cascading extinctions as a hidden driver of insect decline (2020, background): “Trophic cascades are a powerful example of indirect interactions, where diminished top-down control leads to a marked negative impact on primary producers (Schmitz, 2003; Estes et al., 2011).”
• Trophic Dynamics in Urban Communities (2005, background): “Keywords: community, food webs, trophic dynamics, species composition, urban ecosystems Downloaded From: https://bioone.org/journals/BioScience on 24 Mar 2020 Terms of Use: https://bioone.org/terms-of-use tural settings (“old fields”; Schmitz 2003).”
• Cascading effects of predator diversity and omnivory in a marine food web (2005, background): “plant diversity and relative abundances (Schmitz 2003), and these properties may therefore be more important measures of the strength of trophic cascades than total plant biomass ( Schmitz 2003; Duffy et al. 2005).”
• The Various Effects of Insects on Ecosystem Functioning (2008, background): “…can only be unravelled through manipulative studies where the number of insects in the ecosystem is either augmented or reduced, yet such studies are still very rare (e.g. Mulder et al. 1999; Belovsky and Slade 2000; Cardinale et al. 2002; 2003; Mitchell 2003; Montoya et al. 2003; Schmitz 2003).”
• Functional Traits and Trait-Mediated Interactions: Connecting Community-Level Interactions with Ecosystem Functioning (2015, background): “This adaptive foraging shift leads to higher plant species diversity because the grasshopper suppresses this competitively dominant plant (Schmitz, 2003).”
• The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in food webs (2005, background): “Thus, this study begins to build a bridge connecting the broad range of studies on top-down effects and trophic cascades (Shurin et al. 2002; Schmitz 2003; Hillebrand and Cardinale 2004) and stability in food webs (Pimm and”