Interactive effects of soil moisture, vegetation canopy, plant litter and seed addition on plant diversity in a wetland community

By Shaojun Xiong, M. Johansson, F. Hughes, A. Hayes, K. Richards, C. Nilsson. 2003

148 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/606cb4c4b124519fc61fc88a1f0a5a1328412d61

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Ecology

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

Citations in the corpus

Consequences of propagule dispersal and river fragmentation for riparian plant community diversity and turnover (2010, background): “However, there is little evidence that saturated communities exist in natural systems, particularly in systems that are regularly disturbed (e.g., riparian ecosystems; Levine 2000, Xiong et al. 2003).”
Dispersal potential in plant communities depends on environmental conditions (2004, background): “Seed sowing experiments have underpinned the notion that dispersal limitation is almost universal in plant communities (Turnbull et al . 2000; Foster & Tilman 2003; Xiong et al . 2003 ).”
Prospects for fen meadow restoration on severely degraded fens (2010, background): “Litter addition also inhibits germination or establishment of species from the soil seed bank (Xiong et al., 2003; Eckstein and Donath, 2005; Donath et al., 2006, 2007).”
Propagule pools mediate community assembly and diversity‐ecosystem regulation along a grassland productivity gradient (2004, background): “Journal of Ecology 2004 92 , 435–449 © 2004 British Ecological Society Blackwell Publishing, Ltd.Propagule pools mediate community assembly and diversity-ecosystem regulation along a grassland productivity gradient”
Establishment limitation reduces species recruitment and species richness as soil resources rise (2004, background): “In particular, source limitation may generally be important in unproductive sites (Foster & Tilman 2003), and establishment limitation may become relatively more important in productive sites (Xiong et al. 2003).”
Effect of spatial scale on factors limiting species distributions in dry grassland fragments (2004, background): “Eriksson & Ehrlén 1992; Ehrlén & Eriksson 2000), whereas studies testing the effect of environmental factors within localities usually succeed (e.g. Kelly 1989; Peart 1989; Robinson et al. 1995; Tilman 1997; Franzén 2002; Jutila & Grace 2002; Xiong et al. 2003).”
Soil seed banks in plant invasions: promoting species invasiveness and long-term impact on plant community dynamics. (2012, background): “…moisture, temperature fluctuations and nutrient cycling (Facelli & Pickett 1991, Xiong & Nilsson 1997, Silvertown et al. 1999, Ehrenfeld 2003, 2004, 2006, Xiong et al. 2003, Allison & Vitousek 2004), thus limiting the output of seeds from the seed bank, although seed viability may also decrease.”
Effects of litter on seedling establishment in natural and semi‐natural grasslands: a meta‐analysis (2013, background): “Additionally, many studies (Goldberg & Werner 1983; Xiong et al. 2003; Schmiede et al. in press) showed that very high litter amounts (> 1000 g m 2) completely inhibit seedling emergence.”
Interactions between litter and water availability affect seedling emergence in four familial pairs of floodplain species (2005, background): “1) together with reduced thermal stress (significantly lower maximum temperatures; Fowler 1986; Facelli & Pickett 1991b; Xiong et al. 2003).”