Hierarchy of responses to resource pulses in arid and semi-arid ecosystems

By S. Schwinning, O. Sala. Oecologia, 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Plant interactions govern population dynamics in a semi‐arid plant community (2005, background): “2001; Schwinning & Sala 2004; Sher et al .”
Resource pulses, species interactions, and diversity maintenance in arid and semi-arid environments (2004, background): “…that changes in seasonality or rainfall patterns, associated with global warming, will cause a profound restructuring of local communities (e.g., Schwinning and Sala 2004): however, we cannot predict community change without a clear understanding of the mechanisms that retain species in their…”
The limit to wheat water-use efficiency in eastern Australia. II. Influence of rainfall patterns (2007, background): “For instance, a brief, shallow pulse could affect top-soil microorganisms with fast response times, whereas the physiology, growth, and reproduction of larger, slower growing organisms such as higher plants would require longer pulses and more water (Schwinning and Sala 2004).”
What can we learn from resource pulses? (2008, background): “Increasingly, studies have begun to investigate the variability of resource inputs explicitly (Schwinning and Sala 2004, Sher et al. 2004).”
Interactions between water and nitrogen in Australian cropping systems: physiological, agronomic, economic, breeding and modelling perspectives (2016, background): “Rainfall events of different size and frequency drive different biological processes (Schwinning and Ehleringer 2001; Schwinning and Sala 2004).”
Precipitation pulses and carbon fluxes in semiarid and arid ecosystems (2004, background): “are covered in depth by other contributions in this special issue (e.g., Austin et al. 2004; Belnap et al. 2004; Cable and Huxman 2004; Huxman et al. 2004b; Ogle and Reynolds 2004; Schwinning and Sala 2004; Snyder et al. 2004).”
Biological Soil Crusts: An Organizing Principle in Drylands (2016, background): “Thus, the dominant microbially driven nutrient transformations are decoupled in time and space from vascular plant production (Austin et al. 2004; Schwinning and Sala 2004; Collins et al. 2014).”
A fresh framework for the ecology of arid Australia (2011, background): “Diversity of coexisting species-specific strategies for timing of production and allocation of photosynthate is likely to be enhanced under unpredictability (Schwinning and Sala, 2004; Stafford Smith and McAllister, 2008; Westoby, 1980).”
Water pulses and biogeochemical cycles in arid and semiarid ecosystems (2004, background): “…during a small rain event (Schlesinger and Peterjohn 1991), or the instantaneous response of soil organisms to changes in moisture (Freckman et al. 1987; Schwinning and Sala 2004) contribute to the difficulty in obtaining reliable information on the effects of water pulses on ecosystem functioning.”
Ecohydrological advances and applications in plant-water relations research: a review (2011, background): “…such as arid and semiarid deserts, grasslands and savannas, plant growth is often controlled by stochastic pulses of water that directly affect plants’ ability to adapt and survive; in turn, species composition and structure affect water fluxes at larger scales (Schwinning and Sala 2004).”
Strain and vegetation effects on local limiting resources explain the outcomes of biotic interactions (2010, background): “Second, even in stressful environments, vegetation can have positive (Liancourt et al., 2005) or negative effects on local limiting resources (Schwinning and Sala, 2004; Padilla and Pugnaire, 2006), leading either to apparent facilitation or to competition.”