Modifying the ‘pulse–reserve’ paradigm for deserts of North America: precipitation pulses, soil water, and plant responses

By J. Reynolds, P. Kemp, K. Ogle, R. Fernández. Oecologia, 2004

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Linking growth strategies to long‐term population dynamics in a guild of desert annuals (2007, background): “This finding highlights the importance of understanding the pulse response behaviour of desert organisms (Ogle & Reynolds 2004; Reynolds et al. 2004).”
Resource pulses, species interactions, and diversity maintenance in arid and semi-arid environments (2004, background): “However, the many species in a community with similar rooting depths use virtually identical water sources for much of the time, questioning the extent to which vertical water partitioning contributes to their coexistence (Reynolds et al. 2004).”
Drought resistance and resilience: The role of soil moisture–plant interactions and legacies in a dryland ecosystem (2020, background): “However, without ecohydrological niche partitioning, shrubs and grasses may compete for water resources, particularly during drought years (e.g. Pierce et al., 2018) when the plant community is ‘drinking from the same cup’ (sensu Hunter, 1989; Reynolds et al., 2004).”
The limit to wheat water-use efficiency in eastern Australia. II. Influence of rainfall patterns (2007, background): “Except for a limited sensitivity analysis, we ignored the interactions between soils and rainfall (Kemper 1993; Reynolds et al. 2004; Lithourgidis et al. 2006); accounting for the distinctive soil features in the environments under study is therefore the next step towards more realistic estimates of”
Is the change of plant–plant interactions with abiotic stress predictable? A meta‐analysis of field results in arid environments (2005, background): “Although plant performance in arid and semi-arid environments is a response to soil water availability, rather than to precipitation per se ( Reynolds et al . 2004 ), the two variables are usually strongly related (Breshears et al . 1997; Haase et al . 1999; Maestre et al . 2001; Bellot et al . 2004”
Hierarchy of responses to resource pulses in arid and semi-arid ecosystems (2004, background): “The ways in which differences in gross morphology, physiology and phenology can give rise to contrasting overall pulse use strategies is reviewed elsewhere (e.g. Ogle and Reynolds 2004; Reynolds et al. 2004; Chesson et al. 2004, this issue).”
Translocation of nitrogen and carbon integrates biotic crust and grass production in desert grassland (2008, background): “The temporal dynamics of these episodes are described by the pulse–reserve model (Reynolds et al. 2004): Precipitation events that increase soil moisture above critical thresholds initiate a pulse of plant growth that produces reserves of biomass and propagules that accumulate until soil moisture…”
Whole ecosystem metabolic pulses following precipitation events (2008, background): “Because terminology varies in the literature ( Reynolds et al . 2004 ), we explicitly use ‘pulse’ in reference to the ecological response and precipitation event in reference to the trigger (Noy-Meir 1973).”
Maize leaf functional responses to drought episode and rewatering (2017, neutral): “1971; Reynolds et al .”
Variability in amount and frequency of water supply affects roots but not growth of arid shrubs (2009, background): “Growing attention has been paid recently to the relationship between water inputs, species responses, and ecosystems dynamics (Reynolds et al. 2004; Schwinning et al. 2004; Heisler and Weltzin 2006) although most research conducted in greenhouses focused on annual and grassland species (Novoplansky…”
Soil enzyme and microbial activities in a grazing ecosystem of Patagonian Monte, Argentina (2011, background): “In arid and semiarid regions, water controls biotic processes conditioning most of them to sporadic and scarce rainfall events (Collins et al., 2008; Noy-Meir, 1973; Reynolds et al., 2004).”