Plant functional group identity influences short-term peatland ecosystem carbon flux: evidence from a plant removal experiment

By Susan E. Ward, R. Bardgett, N. McNamara, N. Ostle. 2009

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Rapid transfer of photosynthetic carbon through the plant-soil system in differently managed species-rich grasslands (2011, unknown): “In line with studies in peatland and arctic systems, we found that mosses assimilated C at a much slower rate, but retained the13C signal longer in their tissues than did vascular plants (Dorrepaal, 2007; Woodin et al., 2009; Ward et al., 2009).”
Plant communities as drivers of soil respiration: pathways, mechanisms, and significance for global change (2011, background): “Other studies highlight the importance of particular446 species or functional groups, rather than diversity, in determining ecosystem level patterns of R447 (de Boeck et al., 2007; Johnson et al., 2008; Ward et al., 2009).”
Plant–soil feedbacks: the past, the present and future challenges (2013, background): “…patterns, as found in tropical rainforest (Engelbrecht et al. 2007) and African savanna (Good & Caylor 2011), not only influence photosynthesis (Ward et al. 2009) and hence the exudation of photosynthate in the soil, but also the amount and quality of organic matter entering the soil as plant…”
Soil microbial communities resistant to changes in plant functional group composition (2011, background): “Plant traits may also influence soil community composition by impacts on soil carbon sequestration, via differences in exudates, and litter quality and quantity (De Deyn et al., 2008), or through changes in short-term C-cycling (Ward et al., 2009).”
Linkages of plant traits to soil properties and the functioning of temperate grassland (2010, background): “Although these theories emphasize the fertility of the soil as a key determinant of plant growth strategies, it is also clear that species with very different strategies can coexist on soils of the same initial fertility (Bowman et al. 2004; Personeni &Loiseau 2004;Ward et al. 2009).”
Stability of above-ground and below-ground processes to extreme drought in model grassland ecosystems: Interactions with plant species diversity and soil nitrogen availability (2012, methodology): “Net ecosystem CO2-C fluxes ere measured with the transparent chamber, whereas ecosysem respiration was measured using a black-out bag to convert the quipment to a dark chamber (Ward et al., 2009); at each gas samling, chamber closure time was 2 min.”