INVASIVE SPECIES ACCELERATE DECOMPOSITION AND LITTER NITROGEN LOSS IN A MIXED DECIDUOUS FOREST

By Isabel W. Ashton, Laura A. Hyatt, K. Howe, J. Gurevitch, M. Lerdau. 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Citations in the corpus

• Ecosystem Consequences of Biological Invasions (2010, background): “Rapidly decomposing litter of exotics also may facilitate more rapid decomposition of co-occurring native species (Ashton et al. 2005, Hughes & Uowolo 2006, Rodgers et al. 2008).”
• Evidence for climatic niche and biome shifts between native and novel ranges in plant species introduced to Australia (2010, background): “2007), changes in soil nutrient dynamics (Mack, D’Antonio & Ley 2001; Allison & Vitousek 2004; Yelenik, Stock & Richardson 2004; Ashton et al. 2005), declines in limiting resources such as light (Asner et al.”
• Invasive plants accelerate nitrogen cycling: evidence from experimental woody monocultures (2017, background): “There has been considerable interest in comparing litter decomposition rates between native and invasive species due to the presumably close link between decomposition rate and soil N availability (Scott & Binkley 1997; Allison & Vitousek 2004; Ashton et al. 2005).”
• Faster returns on ‘leaf economics’ and different biogeochemical niche in invasive compared with native plant species (2009, unknown): “Other experiments have shown that invasive plants accumulate more N and/or phosphorus (P) than the co-occurring natives (Ashton et al., 2005; Dassonville et al., 2007) and that increases of nutrient availability by fertilization or atmospheric deposition have favored the expansion of invasive…”
• Linking above- and belowground resource use strategies for native and invasive species of temperate deciduous forests (2015, background): “…mineralized N has strengthened significantly as a result of increasing dominance of non-native shrubs and lianas, potentially changing ecosystem C and nutrient fluxes and shifting the composition of microbial communities (Kourtev et al. 2002; Ashton et al. 2005; Liao et al. 2008; Lee et al. 2012).”
• Interactions of an introduced shrub and introduced earthworms in an Illinois urban woodland: impact on leaf litter decomposition. (2007, result): “That invasive shrubs can drive such changes in soil properties has been shown by other studies (Stock et al., 1995; Ehrenfeld, 1997, 2003; Ehrenfeld et al., 2001; Kourtev et al., 2002; Ashton et al., 2005).”
• Chinese Privet (Ligustrum sinense) Removal and its Effect on Native Plant Communities of Riparian Forests (2009, background): “In addition, invasive species effects on plant communities and underlying ecosystem processes (Ashton et al. 2005; Ehrenfeld et al. 2001; Gordon 1998; Heneghan et al. 2004) may make restoration to some idealized condition or community composition difficult or impossible.”
• Impacts of alien plant invasions on species richness in Mediterranean-type ecosystems: a meta-analysis (2009, methodology): “The meta-analysis is a technique of quantitative research synthesis (Smith and Glass, 1977) and has been widely used in ecology (eg, Ashton et al., 2005). In this study, we used the comprehensive meta-analysis software (CMA version 2.0; Borenstein et al., 2005) to conduct a twogroup comparison (nati”
• Fungal community homogenization, shift in dominant trophic guild, and appearance of novel taxa with biotic invasion (2017, background): “…Lankau 2011, Lekberg et al. 2013), altering symbioses between native plants and fungi (Stinson et al. 2006, Mangla and Callaway 2008, Cantor et al. 2011) and fungalmediated ecosystem functions such as decomposition (Ashton et al. 2005, Rodgers et al. 2008a) and nutrient cycling (Ehrenfeld 2003).”