Constraints on colonization and species richness along a grassland productivity gradient: the role of propagule availability

By B. Foster. 2001

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

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Size asymmetry of resource competition and the structure of plant communities (2016, background): “This difference is important because empirical studies show that a decrease in species richness at high levels of productivity is usually caused by competitive mortality rather than by dispersal limitations (e.g. Foster 2001; Stevens et al. 2004; but see Partel & Zobel 2007 for a different view).”
Community assembly time and the relationship between local and regional species richness (2003, background): “In a related fashion, disturbance can cause an unsaturated relationship between local and regional species richness despite strong local interactions (Caswell and Cohen 1993, Huston 1999, Foster 2001) as illustrated in Fig.”
Invasibility and compositional stability in a grassland community: relationships to diversity and extrinsic factors (2002, methodology): “Although the experimental disturbances were not initially designed to mimic a specific type of natural disturbance (Foster 2001), these disturbances were of a magnitude common to intact grasslands (mowing, small-mammal disturbance etc.).”
Effect of spatial scale on factors limiting species distributions in dry grassland fragments (2004, background): “The other assumes that communities are potentially saturated so that local biotic interactions and site availability, reflected in traits related to establishment, are predominant (Grubb 1977; Brown 1984; van der Maarel & Sykes 1993; Foster 2001).”
Seed limitation and the regulation of community structure in oak savanna grassland (2003, background): “Other sowing experiments have found similar effects of sowing on richness (Foster 2001; Lord & Lee 2001), but none of these studies have reported results for more than four growing seasons.”
Effect of local and regional processes on plant species richness in tallgrass prairie (2002, background): “Indeed, there is evidence that dispersal limitation may limit recruitment in herbaceous vegetation (Foster 2001, Franzén 2001, Levine 2001).”
Establishment limitation reduces species recruitment and species richness as soil resources rise (2004, background): “Foster (2001) showed that seed additions enhanced species richness in low or moderate above-ground biomass (< 250 g m−2) but not in high biomass plots (> 250 g m−2).”
Dominant species maintain ecosystem function with non‐random species loss (2003, background): “Alternatively, responses the remaining subordinate species to increased resources may have been limited over the 2-year period by propagule supply (Foster 2001; Symstad & Tilman 2001) or by morphological and physiological constraints.”
Dispersal traits determine plant response to habitat connectivity in an urban landscape (2011, background): “Consequently, a shift from traits conferring high competitive ability towards stress tolerance traits occurs along a gradient of decreasing productivity (Campbell and Grime 1992; Foster 2001; Crowley and McLetchie 2002).”
Prospects for fen meadow restoration on severely degraded fens (2010, background): “Seed limitation often affects community composition, especially in the early-succession stages and in systems with low productivity (Eriksson and Ehrlén, 1992; Turnbull et al., 2000; Foster, 2001) and this problem should not be overlooked in restoration projects.”
GRASSLAND DIVERSITY AND PRODUCTIVITY: THE INTERPLAY OF RESOURCE AVAILABILITY AND PROPAGULE POOLS (2004, background): “Other studies suggest that the degree to which colonization and diversity are limited by propagule availability, vs. local niche limitation, varies predictably along gradients of resource supply and productivity (Huston 1999, Pärtel et al. 2000, Foster 2001).”
Dominance not richness determines invasibility of tallgrass prairie. (2004, background): “Since light is an important aboveground resource limiting growth and establishment in tallgrass prairie (Knapp and Seastedt 1986, Foster and Gross 1998, Foster 2001), light penetration (photon flux density; PFD) through the canopy was measured each time seedlings were counted.”
Plant Invasions and Invasibility of Plant Communities (2013, background): “However, as populations of alien plants build up and propagule pressure (Foster 2001) increases outside or within such areas, invasions could well start or increase.”