Comparative Ecology and Ecological Scaling Highlight: Article

By J. H. C. Cornelissen, S. Lang, Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia, H. During. 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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• Species richness effects on ecosystem multifunctionality depend on evenness, composition and spatial pattern (2012, background): “Given that the effects of lichen species on nutrient cycling should be driven primarily by their traits and the secondary compounds they produce (Cornelissen et al. 2007; Bowker, Maestre & Escolar 2010), and that these vary substantially between species (e.g. Palmqvist et al. 2002), variations in…”
• Response of British lichens to climate change scenarios: Trends and uncertainties in the projected impact for contrasting biogeographic groups (2007, background): “…fungi including lichens, are highly diverse and comprise >86% of ‘botanical’ diversity (based on estimates in Hammond, 1995), they are functionally important in many ecosystems (Cornelissen et al., 2007), though there is a scarcity of research examining their putative response to climate change.”
• Arctic warming on two continents has consistent negative effects on lichen diversity and mixed effects on bryophyte diversity (2012, background): “Crypto- gams (non-vascular plants including lichens and bryophytes) commonly play critical roles in functioning of northern ecosystems (Longton, 1997; Cornelissen et al., 2007) such as regulation of hydrology (Beringer et al., 2001), carbon balance (Rydin & Jeglum, 2006), nitrogen (N) fixation…”
• An experimental comparison of chemical traits and litter decomposition rates in a diverse range of subarctic bryophyte, lichen and vascular plant species (2009, background): “These features are closely linked with other important ecosystem functions fulfilled by cryptogams (Cornelissen et al. 2007).”
• Plant functional traits and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomes. (2008, unknown): “…plants: most slowgrowing vascular and non-vascular cryptogams, such as ferns, fern allies, bryophytes and some lichen groups, also contain high concentrations of secondary carbon compounds that retard decomposition and thereby potentially increase soil carbon storage (Cornelissen et al. 2007a).”
• Contrasting sensitivity to extreme winter warming events of dominant sub‐Arctic heathland bryophyte and lichen species (2011, background): “The contrasting sensitivities further suggest that many more species-specific studies on cryptogam winter activity are required if we are to understand their roles in winter ecosystem processes, which also affect growing season processes (Cornelissen et al. 2007).”
• Towards a trait‐based ecology of wetland vegetation (2017, background): “…mosses (Sphagnum spp.), show the lowest decomposition rates of all functional groups, often due to their constitutive chemistry, particularly structural carbohydrates and lignin-like compounds, uronic acids and phenolic compounds (Cornelissen et al. 2007; Turetsky et al. 2008; Lang et al. 2009).”
• Integrating plant–soil interactions into global carbon cycle models (2009, background): “There are significant gaps in current DGVMs including the lack of a bryophyte or cryptogram PFT class despite their strong influence of soil and ecosystem biogeochemistry in boreal and tundra biomes (Cornelissen et al. 2007b).”
• TRY – a global database of plant traits (2011, background): “They highlight the importance of includ- ing trait data for autotrophs representing very different branches of the Tree of Life (Cornelissen et al., 2007; Lang et al., 2009) in the TRY database.”
• Leaf dry matter content is better at predicting above-ground net primary production than specific leaf area (2017, background): “Because a number of bryophyte genera, including 404 Sphagnum, are capable of fixing atmospheric nitrogen (Cornelissen et al. 2007), the 405 inclusion of bryophyte cover was also tested as an additional predictor alongside LDMC and 406 SLA but this was also not significant (see Supplementary…”
• Ecosystem feedbacks and cascade processes: understanding their role in the responses of Arctic and alpine ecosystems to environmental change (2009, background): “…spp.) decompose very slowly (Hobbie et al. 2000), and that differences exist between vascular PFTs, with rates of breakdown varying in the order: forbs > graminoids ≥ deciduous shrubs > evergreen shrubs (Cornelissen 1996; Quested et al. 2003; Dorrepaal et al. 2005; Cornelissen et al. 2007a).”
• The importance of snow in species distribution models of arctic vegetation (2018, background): “In general, lichens and mosses are more tolerant of momentary extreme temperatures and short-term drought, though many of the moss species favor constantly moist conditions (Cornelissen et al. 2007, Turetsky et al. 2012).”