Declining plant diversity: empty niches or functional shifts?

By J. P. Grime. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Functional Diversity — at the Crossroads between Ecosystem Functioning and Environmental Filters (2007, background): “…2005 for an updated review), most researchers now recognize that FD is more relevant to local-scale ecosystem functioning than taxonomic diversity (Grime 1998, 2002; Chapin et al. 2000b; Díaz and Cabido 2001; Loreau et al. 2001; Tilman 2001; Naeem and Wright 2003; Petchey 2004; Petchey et al.…”
Large-scale changes in the abundance of common higher plant species across Britain between 1978, 1990 and 1998 as a consequence of human activity: Tests of hypothesised changes in trait representation (2005, background): “These analyses are necessary because they test the realism of theoretical predictions, the generality of experimental results and offer specific insights into the region under study (Grime, 2002).”
Biodiversity Regulation of Ecosystem Services (2005, background): “Extinction in natural ecosystems similarly tends to be biased to certain organisms (Vitousek et al. 1997; Grime 2002; see also Chapter 4) rather than being a random process.”
Community assembly during secondary forest succession in a Chinese subtropical forest (2011, background): “Instead, it was advocated 563 to use extinction scenarios based on rarity of species (Grime 2002).”
Dominant species maintain ecosystem function with non‐random species loss (2003, background): “We contend that the impacts of species loss on ecosystems need to be evaluated based on natural patterns of species abundances that reflect their contributions to ecosystem processes (Korner 1993; Schwartz et al. 2000; Geider et al. 2001; Grime 2002; Loreau et al. 2002).”
Species divergence and trait convergence in experimental plant community assembly (2005, background): “Thompson et al. 1996; Hooper & Vitousek 1997; Tilman et al. 1997; Grime 2002; Foster et al. 2004).”
Prospects for fen meadow restoration on severely degraded fens (2010, background): “Such measures may also influence species interactions in favour of the target species, because their seedlings are often tolerant to anoxia, in contrast to those of most competitor species (McJannet et al., 1995; Lenssen et al., 1998; Grime, 2002; Pywell et al., 2003; Kotowski et al., 2006).”
The diversity–biomass–productivity relationships in grassland management and restoration (2007, background): “…diversity and the effects of diversity on ecosystem productivity are two closely linked foci in recent research which have generated considerable debates and insights on the role of diversity in ecosystem performance (Aarssen, 2001; Grime, 2002; Huston, 1997; Loreau, Naeem, & Inchausti, 2002).”
BIODIVERSITY LOSS AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN NUMBER AND IDENTITY OF SPECIES (2005, background): “The impacts of species loss on ecosystems were thus evaluated based on natural patterns of species abundances that reflect their contributions to ecosystem functioning (Schwartz et al. 2000, Grime 2002, Loreau et al. 2002).”
Designing forest biodiversity experiments: general considerations illustrated by a new large experiment in subtropical China (2014, background): “For example, Grime (2002) pointed out that stress-tolerant species, characterized by slow growth and long life span, may be more prone to go extinct with increasing human disturbance.”