Plant coexistence and the niche

By J. Silvertown. 2004

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

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Tree diversity is key for promoting the diversity and abundance of forest‐associated taxa in Europe (2020, background): “Apart from these management-related factors, abiotic drivers, such as climate (Engelbrecht et al. 2007, Butchart et al. 2010) and soil (Rosch et al. 2002, Silvertown 2004), may also affect the diversity of the forestassociated taxa.”
Soil water partitioning contributes to species coexistence in tallgrass prairie (2007, positive): “Thus, competition may force the subdominant C3 species to use deeper soil water when demand for surface soil water is high (Silverton 2004).”
Seedling growth and morphology of three oak species along field resource gradients and seed mass variation: a seedling age-dependent response (2010, positive): “The specialisation along resource availability gradients during seedling establishment, as part of the regeneration niche, is one of the frequently hypothesised mechanisms for species coexistence in plant communities (Grubb 1977; Silvertown 2004).”
Disturbance is the principal α‐scale filter determining niche differentiation, coexistence and biodiversity in an alpine community (2007, background): “…resource competition, in which instantaneous resource availability is the sole environmental factor assumed to influence survival and adaptive radiation, e.g. the ‘resource ratio hypothesis’ (Tilman 1988), ‘stochastic niche theory’ (Tilman 2004) and ‘resource-based niche theory’ (Silvertown 2004).”
Tropical tree species assemblages in topographical habitats change in time and with life stage (2011, background): “…may not provide separate niches for hundreds of plant species as required by classical coexistence theory (Valencia et al. 2004), because plants depend on and compete for the same few of resources and acquire them in similar ways (Daws et al. 2002; Silvertown 2004; Comita, Condit & Hubbell 2007).”
A greater range of shade‐tolerance niches in nutrient‐rich forests: an explanation for positive richness–productivity relationships? (2009, background): “A central goal of ecology is to understand the mechanisms responsible for the coexistence of species, and niche differentiation during regeneration has long been regarded as an important explanation for the diversity of plant communities (Grubb 1977; Silvertown 2004).”
Testing predictions of the Janzen–Connell hypothesis: a meta-analysis of experimental evidence for distance- and density-dependent seed and seedling survival (2014, background): “However, since all plant species ultimately depend on the same suite of resources for survival, namely light, water and soil nutrients, resource niche partitioning is unlikely to be the only mechanism contributing to species coexistence in diverse plant communities (Barot 2004; Silvertown 2004).”
Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities. (2010, methodology): “…studies have subsequently used genus: species ratios (Elton 1946; Harper et al. 1961; Simberloff 1970; Lawton & Strong 1981; Colwell & Winkler 1984; Silvertown et al. 2001) and the co-occurrence of species pairs (Losos 1994; Gotelli et al. 1997; Tofts & Silvertown 2002; Silvertown et al. 2006;…”
Uncovering multiscale effects of aridity and biotic interactions on the functional structure of Mediterranean shrublands (2013, background): “By contrast, ND leads to trait divergence and promotes the coexistence of species exploiting contrasted niches (Pacala & Tilman 1994; Silvertown 2004; Kraft, Valencia & Ackerly 2008).”
Niche breadth, rarity and ecological characteristics within a regional flora spanning large environmental gradients (2012, background): “…based on a few selected resource-limiting axes does not seem to explain plant coexistence as most plants require common resources (light, water, CO2, phosphorus, potassium and certain other mineral nutrients) and there are a limited number of ways in which they can acquire them (Silvertown, 2004).”
Plant functional traits capture species richness variations along a flooding gradient (2011, background): “…be performed at the species level by comparing the fundamental niche (without species interactions) and the realized niche (with species interactions) (Silvertown 2004), but it remains unsuccessful at the community level to quantify the strength of species interactions in shaping species richness.”