The effect of reindeer grazing on decomposition, mineralization and soil biota in a dry oligotrophic Scots pine forest

By S. Stark, David A. Wardle, R. Ohtonen, T. Helle, G. Yeates. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science

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Importance of large and small mammalian herbivores for the plant community structure in the forest tundra ecotone (2004, background): “(Bazely and Jefferies 1985, 1989, Olofsson et al. 2001, 2004, Olofsson and Oksanen 2002) or decrease ( Stark and Grellmann 2002 ) nutrient availability for plants.”
Mosses mediate grazer impacts on grass abundance in arctic ecosystems (2004, background): “Second, there is increasing recognition of the importance of indirect effects of grazers on vegetation patterns via modifications of the soil compartment, such as microbial and fungal abundance (Bardgett et al . 1998), and nitrogen mineralization and litter decomposition (Frank & Groffman 1998; Sta”
Reindeer grazing and soil microbial processes in two suboceanic and two subcontinental tundra heaths (2002, background): “Reindeer grazing decreases soil respiration in the humus layer of lichen-dominated boreal forests (Väre et al. 1996, Stark et al. 2000), while net N mineralization is simultaneously enhanced (Stark et al. 2000).”
Do herbivores cause habitat degradation or vegetation state transition? Evidence from the tundra (2006, background): “Here reindeer have negative effects on the decomposer subsystem because of removal of protective lichen cover that exposes the soil biota to a less favourable microclimate ( Stark et al. 2000 ) and in addition reindeer trample plant roots and reduce carbon inputs to soil (Stark et al. 2003).”
Herbivore-mediated linkages between aboveground and belowground communities (2003, background): “…1999), effects on C mineralization that are positive (e.g., Bardgett et al. 1997, Kielland et al. 1997) or negative (e.g., Pastor et al. 1988, Stark et al. 2000), and effects on net N mineralization that are positive (e.g., McNaughton et al. 1997a, Frank and Groffman 1998) or negative (e.g.,…”
Tree physiological responses to above-ground herbivory directly modify below-ground processes of soil carbon and nitrogen cycling (2004, background): “Ruess & McNaughton 1987; McNaughton et al. 1997; Frank & Groffman 1998; Tracy & Frank 1998; Stark et al. 2000; Bardgett et al. 2001; Wardle et al. 2001) or negative (e.g.”
INTRODUCED BROWSING MAMMALS IN NEW ZEALAND NATURAL FORESTS: ABOVEGROUND AND BELOWGROUND CONSEQUENCES (2001, methodology): “However, because most of the exclosures in our study were relatively large and because the focus was on belowground properties effectively sampled over smaller spatial scales, we employed a stratified sampling regime (cf., Stark et al. 2000).”
Long- and short-term effects of reindeer grazing on tundra wetland vegetation (2009, background): “Grazing can also alter plant species’ mineral composition (Kielland and Bryant 1998; Grellmann 2001), nutrient mineralization rates (Stark et al. 2000), primary production (Olofsson et al. 2001), and increase soil temperature (Zimov et al. 1995).”