The Concept of Organisms as Ecosystem Engineers Ten Years On: Progress, Limitations, and Challenges

By J. Wright, Clive G. Jones. 2006

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

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Assessing impacts of ecosystem engineers on community organization: a general approach illustrated by effects of a high‐Andean cushion plant (2006, background): “…caterpillars; Machicote et al. 2004: burrowing mammals; Castilla et al. 2004: marine macroinvertebrates; Fritz et al. 2004: freshwater macrophytes; Wright et al. 2006: shrub mounds): this is a common situation in nature (see Jones et al. 1994, 1997, Crooks 2002 for a detailed list of examples).”
Dynamic interactions of life and its landscape: feedbacks at the interface of geomorphology and ecology (2010, background): “The concept of organisms as ecosystem engineers has organized these scattered examples of organisms modifying the environment into a more general framework and has begun to make signifi cant progress towards some unifying themes (Wright and Jones, 2006).”
Habitat, environment and niche: what are we modelling? (2006, background): “Organisms can modify and, in a sense, create their environments through their behaviour, morphology and physiological processes (Lewontin 2000, Wright and Jones 2006).”
Destruction without extinction: long‐term impacts of an invasive tree species on Galápagos highland vegetation (2009, background): “Ecosystem engineering can have both positive and negative effects on species richness and abundance, both of which are scale-dependent (Jones, Lawton & Shachak 1997; Wright & Jones 2006).”
Ecological Opportunity and Adaptive Radiation (2016, background): “A third way in which radiations may create their own ecological opportunity is through the construction of new ecological opportunities via alterations to the physical environment: so called ecosystem engineering ( Jones et al. 1994, 1997; Wright & Jones 2006; Odling-Smee et al. 2013).”
The role of fine and coarse roots in shallow slope stability and soil erosion control with a focus on root system architecture: a review (2007, background): “Although, the latter concept has occasioned some controversy during its development, it is quickly gaining acceptance among ecologists (Wright and Jones 2006).”
Burrowing rodents increase landscape heterogeneity in a desert grassland (2008, background): “Animals modify their environments through a variety of mechanisms, but those that modify habitat structure through the physical process of ecosystem engineering and/or consumption of plant material have received increased attention over the last decade (Fuhlendorf and Engle, 2001; Joern, 2005; Knapp”
Ecosystem engineering in space and time. (2007, background): “Thus, a standardized approach to studying ecosystem engineers should allow comparisons across systems and tests of general hypotheses (Wright & Jones 2006).”
Bioengineer effects on understory species richness, diversity, and composition change along an environmental stress gradient: Experimental and mensurative evidence (2013, background): “The bioengineering concept has gained increasing relevance in ecology in recent years, as the existence of common traits in taxonomically different bioengineers lends predictive capacity to the concept (Wright and Jones, 2006; Jones et al., 2010).”
Do fences create an edge-effect on the movement patterns of a highly mobile mega-herbivore? (2010, background): “Elephant are ecosystem engineers or modifiers (Jones et al., 1994; Wright and Jones, 2006) and thus, their movement behaviour and distribution in the landscape have the potential to affect many ecological processes (Kareiva, 1990; Turchin, 1998).”