Consequences of dominance: a review of evenness effects on local and regional ecosystem processes.

By H. Hillebrand, D. Bennett, Marc W. Cadotte. Ecology, 2008

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

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Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance (2013, background): “, honey bee) is the most effective pollinator (21).”
Dominance and compensatory growth in phytoplankton communities under salinity stress (2010, background): “The strong relationships between salinity and the diversity measures 16 HB’, EB and domB, which are expected to react instantly to environmental stress (Hillebrand et al., 2008), emphasised the importance of salinity as a stressor in coastal aquatic ecosystems.”
Climate change effects on plant biomass alter dominance patterns and community evenness in an experimental old‐field ecosystem (2010, background): “Alteration of community evenness has been suggested as one of the fundamental human-induced effects on plant communities (e.g., Hillebrand et al., 2008).”
Bird functional diversity enhances insectivory at forest edges: a transcontinental experiment (2014, background): “An increased functional evenness may actually indicate a more efficient resource use by predatory birds (Hillebrand et al., 2008; Crowder et al., 2010).”
Phylogenetic diversity promotes ecosystem stability (2012, background): “Much of the research on the effect of diversity on ecosystem function and stability has focused on species richness and community composition, and how the distribution of abundances influence ecosystem function has received less attention (Nijs and Roy 2000, Hillebrand et al. 2008).”
Warming leads to higher species turnover in a coastal ecosystem (2010, background): “Regarding shifts in dominance, species are becoming rare much earlier than they are driven to extinction, an observation leading to considerations of consequences of dominance shifts (Hillebrand et al., 2008).”
Manipulating the soil microbiome to increase soil health and plant fertility (2012, background): “…the synergistic interactions between the soil, the soil microbiome, and the plant are of great importance, it can be deduced that reduced evenness has potentially negative effects since synergistic interactions fail when one species completely dominates the assemblage (Hillebrand et al. 2008).”
Effects of plant species richness and evenness on soil microbial community diversity and function (2010, background): “Evenness can respond to changes community dynamics such as competition or facilitation over shorter timescales than properties such as species richness or community composition (Hillebrand et al. 2008).”
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): “Biotic interactions play a key role in the function and structure of ecosystems, influencing the provision of ecosystem services and patterns of biodiversity (Hillebrand et al. 2008; Cavieres and Badano 2009; Schweiger et al. 2010).”