BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: IMPORTANCE OF SPECIES EVENNESS IN AN OLD FIELD

By Brian J. Wilsey, C. Potvin. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Economics and Econometrics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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GEOGRAPHICAL ECOLOGY AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL: PERSPECTIVES ON THE DIVERSITY OF NEW WORLD BATS (2002, background): “…changes in richness and evenness along environmental gradients (e.g., productivity), but this typically is done at relatively small spatial scales in terms of both focus or extent (Rotenberry 1978, Wilson and Gitay 1995, Drobner et al. 1998, Weiher and Keddy 1999, Wilsey and Potvin 2000).”
Testing the effects of diversity on ecosystem multifunctionality using a multivariate model (2015, background): “Many biodiversity experiments have equi-proportional mixtures across a manipulated gradient of richness (e.g. Hector et al. 1999; Roscher et al. 2004) and a smaller number of studies manipulated evenness at a single level of richness (e.g. Wilsey & Potvin 2000; Finn et al. 2013).”
Effects of plant species richness and evenness on soil microbial community diversity and function (2010, background): “Plant evenness can both positively and negatively influence root biomass (Maestre and Reynolds 2006; Mulder et al. 2004; Wilsey and Potvin 2000), suggesting links between evenness and the soil community.”
APPLYING COMMUNITY STRUCTURE ANALYSIS TO ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION: EXAMPLES FROM POLLINATION AND CARBON STORAGE (2005, background): “The magnitude of the function also tends to be highly dependent on the efficiency, and thus identity, of the locally dominant species (Wilsey and Potvin 2000).”
Climate change effects on plant biomass alter dominance patterns and community evenness in an experimental old‐field ecosystem (2010, background): “Climatic change could also increase community productivity, diversity (e.g., Grime, 1973; Hooper, 1998), and evenness (Nijs & Roy, 2000; Wilsey & Potvin, 2000) via complementary resource use among coexisting species.”
Forage productivity, species evenness and weed invasion in pasture communities (2003, background): “Possibly, species that are evenly distributed in space may use resources more equitably and produce a competitive environment that is difficult for weeds to invade (Lyons and Schwartz, 2001; Wilsey and Polley, 2002; Wilsey and Potvin, 2000).”
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: issues of scale and trophic complexity (2006, background): “Of particular relevance is their interpretation of the study by Wilsey & Potvin (2000) on the effects of changes in the evenness component of plant species diversity on primary productivity (Marques & Jørgensen 2002).”
Manipulating the soil microbiome to increase soil health and plant fertility (2012, background): “…for potential invaders (Hillebrand et al. 2008; Knops et al. 1999; Naeem et al. 2000), and a lack of community microbial evenness has been associated with reduced plant productivity (Wilsey and Potvin 2000), possibly due to an empty niche effect leaving some ecosystem services unfulfilled .”
Biological crusts as a model system for examining the biodiversity–ecosystem function relationship in soils (2010, background): “A few studies have shown important effects of evenness upon ecosystem functions (Wilsey and Potvin, 2000; Mulder et al., 2004; Maestre and Reynolds, 2006).”
Landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns and processes ‐ eight hypotheses (2012, background): “Changes in species composition or evenness (Crowder et al., 2010) can have larger effects on ecosystem function than do changes in species richness (Symstad et al., 1998; Wilsey & Potvin, 2000), and this needs to be explored within a landscape framework.”
Variation in the diversity and composition of benthic taxa as a function of distance offshore, depth and exposure in the Spermonde Archipelago, Indonesia (2005, background): “Evenness, however, is another important component of diversity (Stirling and Wilsey, 2001) and has been shown to be able to independently influence ecosystem functioning (Wilsey and Potvin, 2000).”
An improved model to predict the effects of changing biodiversity levels on ecosystem function (2013, background): “…et al. 1998); functional group richness (Petchey et al. 2004; Roscher et al. 2005; Kirwan et al. 2007; Weigelt et al. 2008); community evenness (Wilsey & Potvin 2000; Polley, Wilsey & Derner 2003; Wilsey & Polley 2004; Kirwan et al. 2007; Hillebrand, Bennett & Cadotte 2008; Isbell et al. 2008;…”
EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: A CONSENSUS OF CURRENT KNOWLEDGE (2005, background): “Maintenance of high productivity over time in monocultures almost invariably requires heavy subsidies of chemicals, energy, and capital (Fig.”
Species diversity and productivity: why do results of diversity‐manipulation experiments differ from natural patterns? (2009, methodology): “In support of this idea, experimental manipulations of species relative abundance have shown that plant communities with greater evenness tend to be more productive ( Wilsey & Potvin 2000; Kirwan et al. 2007).”
Reductions in grassland species evenness increase dicot seedling invasion and spittle bug infestation (2002, background): “Varying evenness in experiments has seldom been done (Wilsey & Potvin 2000; H.W. Polley et al., unpublished data), even though it explains a larger proportion of the variance (53”
Relationships Among Indices Suggest that Richness Is an Incomplete Surrogate for Grassland Biodiversity (2005, background): “…evenness and dominance can have important effects on net primary productivity, invasion resistance , and local extinction (Nijs and Roy 2000, Wilsey and Potvin 2000, Foster et al. 2002, Wilsey and Polley 2002, Smith and Knapp 2003, Smith et al. 2004, Wilsey and Polley 2004) that are…”