LINKING PATTERNS AND PROCESSES IN ALPINE PLANT COMMUNITIES: A GLOBAL STUDY

By Z. Kikvidze, F. Pugnaire, Rob W. Brooker, Philippe Choler, Christopher J. Lortie, Richard Michalet, R. Callaway. 2005

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Plant–plant interactions in tropical alpine environments (2012, unknown): “In contrast, positive (facilitative) interactions among plants are particularly frequent in alpine environments (Callaway et al., 2002; Kikvidze et al., 2005; le Roux and McGeoch, 2010) where they are mediated by the ameliorating effects of nurse plants (sensu Turner et al.”
Spatial patterns of regeneration in managed uneven-aged ponderosa pine/Douglas-fir forests of Western Montana, USA (2006, background): “2(t) proposed by Lotwick and Silverman (1982). Of particular interest was to examine whether the spatial distribution of saplings was independent of overstory trees.”
Variability in functional traits mediates plant interactions along stress gradients (2013, methodology): “Elevation gradients in mountain systems have often been used to test the stress-gradient hypothesis, assuming higher elevations to be more stressful for plants (e.g. Callaway et al. 2002; Cavieres et al. 2002; Kikvidze et al. 2005, 2011; Antonsson, Bj€ork & Molau 2009; le Roux & McGeoch 2010).”
Do biotic interactions shape both sides of the humped-back model of species richness in plant communities? (2006, background): “environmental severity), the realized niche of a species (sensu Elton 1958) can be expanded by facilitation (Hacker & Gaines 1997; Choler et al. 2001; Bruno et al. 2003; Baumeister & Callaway in press), which in turn might increase species richness in stressful and/or physically disturbed environmen”
Weak and variable relationships between environmental severity and small‐scale co‐occurrence in alpine plant communities (2007, background): “The clear trends for VC are in line with reported correlations between spatial co-occurrence patterns, net interactions and biomass (Kikvidze et al. 2005), and with theoretical models assuming a close relationship between biomass, or productivity, and environmental severity in herbaceous vegetation…”
Partitioning net interactions among plants along altitudinal gradients to study community responses to climate change (2014, background): “…more important at low altitudes, whereas facilitation becomes more important at high altitude where productivity is lower and abiotic stress is presumed to be greater (e.g. Choler, Michalet & Callaway 2001; Callaway et al. 2002; Kikvidze et al. 2005; McIntire & Fajardo 2011; Cranston et al. 2012).”
Spatial patterns of tree species richness in two temperate forests (2011, background): “…that builds one cornerstone of neutral theory (Hubbell 2001), but many other factors such as non-random seed deposition (Howe 1989), facilitation (Kikvidze et al. 2005), succession (Felinks & Wiegand 2007) and gap dynamics (Nagel, Svoboda & Diaci 2006) can contribute to clustered patterns in…”
Competition increases with abiotic stress and regulates the diversity of biological soil crusts (2010, methodology): “…a fine scale, competitive exclusion should result in fewer species pairs co-occurring than expected by chance, given the number of possible pairings in the species pool (but see Kikvidze et al. 2005 and Hacker & Gaines 1997 for other views about the effects of species interactions upon diversity).”
Beyond description: the active and effective way to infer processes from spatial patterns. (2009, methodology): “…the link between spatial pattern and process has been addressed using: (1) experimentation (e.g., Fonteyn and Mahall 1981, Stoll and Prati 2001, Kikvidze et al. 2005, McIntire and Hik 2005); (2) direct parameterization of spatial models from data (e.g., Turchin 1998, Schultz and Crone 2001,…”
Herbivore and neighbour effects on tundra plants depend on species identity, nutrient availability and local environmental conditions (2007, background): “…the hypothesis that net positive responses to neighbouring vegetation would be more likely in abiotically severe habitats near the distributional limits of a species, whereas net negative responses to neighbours would prevail in more benign habitats (e.g. Choler et al. 2001; Kikvidze et al. 2005).”
Species richness effects on ecosystem multifunctionality depend on evenness, composition and spatial pattern (2012, background): “However, few studies to date have empirically evaluated the relationship between such patterns and ecosystem processes (Kikvidze et al. 2005; Maestre et al. 2005; Pringle et al. 2010), and thus, the consequences of these patterns for ecosystem functioning remain poorly understood.”
The role of nurse plants in the restoration of degraded environments (2006, background): “2006), but also for diversity and community dynamics in many ecosystems (Pugnaire et al. 1996; Kikvidze et al. 2005).”