POTENTIAL FOR USING FACILITATION BY GRASSES TO ESTABLISH SHRUBS ON A SEMIARID DEGRADED STEPPE

By Fernando T. Maestre, Susana Bautista, Jordi Cortina, J. Bellot. 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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The role of plant interactions in the restoration of degraded ecosystems: a meta‐analysis across life‐forms and ecosystems (2009, background): “mine tailings (Choi & Wali 1995) or semiarid steppes ( Maestre et al. 2001 )).”
STRESS TOLERANCE AND COMPETITIVE-RESPONSE ABILITY DETERMINE THE OUTCOME OF BIOTIC INTERACTIONS (2005, background): “However, in particularly harsh environments, similar beneficial effects have been observed for slow-growing shrubs known to have a low competitive-response ability (Maestre et al. 2001, Castro et al. 2002).”
Facilitation of Quercus ilex in Mediterranean shrubland is explained by both direct and indirect interactions mediated by herbs (2010, background): “Therefore, the physiological results of this study provide a mechanistic explanation for the role that moderate shade plays in direct facilitation in dry environments such as Mediterranean ecosystems (Maestre et al. 2001; Gómez-Aparicio et al. 2005b).”
Re‐analysis of meta‐analysis: support for the stress‐gradient hypothesis (2006, methodology): “‘No gradient’ refers to papers that did not adequately identify a gradient within the study system tested or that violated one of the initial Maestre et al. (2005) meta-analysis inclusion criteria. The list of ‘gradient present and shift detected’ papers refers to papers that adequately identified a”
Canopy vs. soil effects of shrubs facilitating tree seedlings in Mediterranean montane ecosystems (2005, background): “The canopy effect due to microclimate amelioration was the main mechanism enhancing seedling survival and growth (see also Valiente-Banuet & Ezcurra 1991; Valiente-Banuet et al. 1991; Greenlee & Callaway 1996; and Maestre et al. 2001).”
Plant interactions govern population dynamics in a semi‐arid plant community (2005, background): “2003), higher infiltration rates (Cerdà 1997) and higher water-holding capacity (Maestre et al. 2001) than in gaps.”
Facilitation in plant communities: the past, the present, and the future (2007, background): “Unfortunately, most studies addressing the use of nurse plants for restoration in arid systems have usually been conducted over shorter time frames, i.e. fewer than three growing seasons (e.g. Maestre et al. 2001, 2003b, 2004; Barchuk et al. 2005).”
The role of nurse plants in the restoration of degraded environments (2006, background): “org and Kermes oak, Stipa did improve survival after the drought period, and did not affect plant growth (Maestre et al. 2001).”
APPLYING PLANT FACILITATION TO FOREST RESTORATION: A META-ANALYSIS OF THE USE OF SHRUBS AS NURSE PLANTS (2004, background): “…stages, since natural regeneration in Mediterranean ecosystems is mainly limited at the seedling stage (Herrera et al. 1994, Rey and Alcantara 2000, Gómez 2004), and experimental reforestations reveal the bottleneck of first-summer mortality (Maestre et al. 2001, Castro et al. 2002, 2004).”
Spatio-temporal heterogeneity in abiotic factors modulate multiple ontogenetic shifts between competition and facilitation (2010, methodology): “…et al., 2004; Aragón et al., 2008), seeds predominantly germinate under the north face of tussocks, where the improvement in microclimate by S. tenacissima is maximal due to water inputs coming from run-off and to the shadow provided by the canopy of this species (Maestre et al., 2001, 2003).”
Biological soil crusts modulate nitrogen availability in semi-arid ecosystems: insights from a Mediterranean grassland (2010, background): “…of total N have been reported under the canopy of S. tenacissima compared to adjacent areas of bare ground in calcareous grasslands of SE Spain (Maestre et al. 2001), Goberna et al. (2007) failed to find significant differences in microbial activity between these microsites in similar…”
Is the change of plant–plant interactions with abiotic stress predictable? A meta‐analysis of field results in arid environments (2005, background): “Although plant performance in arid and semi-arid environments is a response to soil water availability, rather than to precipitation per se (Reynolds et al . 2004), the two variables are usually strongly related (Breshears et al . 1997; Haase et al . 1999; Maestre et al . 2001; Bellot et al . 2004”
Refining the stress‐gradient hypothesis for competition and facilitation in plant communities (2009, neutral): “The SGH, which makes a broad prediction for general patterns across species and systems, might be refined by incorporating species traits to explain why co-occurring species may not show the same response, either in magnitude or direction, to a common neighbour under the same environmental condition”