POSITIVE, NEGATIVE, AND NET EFFECTS IN GRASS–SHRUB INTERACTIONS IN MEDITERRANEAN SEMIARID GRASSLANDS

By Fernando T. Maestre, Susana Bautista, Jordi Cortina. 2003

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

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Plant interactions govern population dynamics in a semi‐arid plant community (2005, background): “Soils under mature Stipa tussocks have higher nutrient content (Sánchez 1995; Puigdefábregas & Sánchez 1996; Maestre et al. 2003), higher infiltration rates (Cerdà 1997) and higher water-holding capacity (Maestre et al. 2001) than in gaps.”
Small-scale patterns of abundance of mosses and lichens forming biological soil crusts in two semi-arid gypsum environments (2006, background): “It has been shown that shade reduces evapotranspiration and may thus increase soil moisture in semi-arid areas (Maestre et al. 2003), and that the development of mosses is strongly limited by low soil-moisture levels in these environments (Martínez-Sánchez et al. 1994).”
Refining the stress‐gradient hypothesis for competition and facilitation in plant communities (2009, positive): “When both the benefactor and beneficiary species are ‘competitive’ (per Grime 1977), facilitation may become dominant at moderate stress levels, when a resource like water becomes more abundant in the vicinity of a benefactor species through mechanisms such as reduced evapotranspiration and improved”
Where do seedlings go? A spatio-temporal analysis of seedling mortality in a semi-arid gypsophyte (2008, background): “…and dynamics of most plant populations (Harper 1977, Kitajima and Fenner 2001), and because interactions with other plants are critical for seedling establishment, particularly in stressful habitats such as arid and semi-arid environments (Maestre et al. 2003, Gómez-Aparicio et al. 2005).”
Salvage Logging Versus the Use of Burnt Wood as a Nurse Object to Promote Post‐Fire Tree Seedling Establishment (2011, background): “…environments comes from the shade provided by the canopy of the benefactor, whereas at the root level there are often costs due to competition for water or nutrients, albeit overall still with a net positive effect (Callaway 1992; Rey-Benayas 1998; Maestre et al. 2003; Gómez-Aparicio et al. 2005).”
Ontogenetic shifts in interactions of two dominant shrub species in a semi‐arid coastal sand dune system (2009, result): “All these factors suggest that improved water relations and microclimate amelioration are the most important factors for establishment of lentisc in this system, which agrees with previous reports of Verdú & Garcı́a-Fayos (1996) and Maestre et al. (2003).”
Extreme weather events and plant–plant interactions: shifts between competition and facilitation among grassland species in the face of drought and heavy rainfall (2014, background): “…from environments with severe climatic or edaphic conditions which suggest that neighbouring plants are more facilitative and might increase community resistance under stressful conditions (Holmgren et al. 1997; Bertness and Ewanchuk 2002; Maestre et al. 2003; Brooker et al. 2008; He et al. 2013).”
Impacts of shrub encroachment on ecosystem structure and functioning: towards a global synthesis (2011, background): “Shading may promote facilitation in drylands due to its effects in reducing evapotranspiration and improving soil moisture (Maestre et al. 2003).”
Mechanisms underlying the interaction between Pinus halepensis and the native late‐successional shrub Pistacia lentiscus in a semi‐arid plantation (2004, background): “Despite its importance, the temporal dynamics of the positive and negative effects in plant interactions has barely been studied (Holzapfel and Mahall 1999, Maestre et al. 2003a ).”
Species richness and cover along a 60-year chronosequence in old-fields of southeastern Spain (2004, background): “In dry environmental conditions, vegetation cover tends to be low and sparse Schlesinger et al. 1990 , and interspecific interactions such as competition or facilitation may be different from those in more mesic Mediterranean conditions e.g., Pugnaire and Luque 2001; Maestre et al. 2003 .”
Canopy vs. soil effects of shrubs facilitating tree seedlings in Mediterranean montane ecosystems (2005, background): “Understorey microclimate is characterized by lower irradiance and air temperature, and consequently lower evapotranspiration demands, than open areas without vegetation (Franco & Nobel 1988; Valiente-Banuet & Ezcurra 1991; Callaway 1992; Maestre et al. 2003).”
Do biotic interactions shape both sides of the humped-back model of species richness in plant communities? (2006, background): “However, the outcome of experiments on biotic interactions is strongly scale-dependent (Dickie et al. 2005; Michalet 2006), and even if competition has been shown to increase with water stress at the patch scale (Pugnaire & Luque 2001; Maestre et al. 2003 ), the net effect of neighbours at the comm”
Facilitation in plant communities: the past, the present, and the future (2007, neutral): “Journal compilation © 2007 British Ecological Society Blackwell Publishing LtdESSAY REVIEW Facilitation in plant communities: the past, the present, and the future Rob W. Brooker 1 *, Fernando T. Maestre 2 , Ragan M. Callaway 3 , Christopher L. Lortie 4 , Lohengrin A. Cavieres 5 , Georges Kunstler 6”
Facilitation of tree saplings by nurse plants: Microhabitat amelioration or protection against herbivores? (2008, background): “This finding suggests that the nurse effect of shrubs, reported mainly for the first year of life of tree seedlings (Maestre et al. 2003; Gómez-Aparicio et al. 2004), is consistent throughout the sapling stage (see also Castro et al.”