Ecosystem carbon loss with woody plant invasion of grasslands

By R. B. Jackson, J. Banner, E. Jobbágy, W. Pockman, D. Wall. Nature, 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science

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Xylem cavitation caused by drought and freezing stress in four co-occurring Juniperus species (2006, methodology): “In the mountainous terrain where many juniper species grow in the western United States, nearby weather stations may not always be close enough to give accurate estimates of climate.”
Aboveground litter quality changes may drive soil organic carbon increase after shrub encroachment into mountain grasslands (2010, background): “A comparison of paired shrubland and grassland sites in the southwestern USA showed that shrub encroachment into grasslands decreased SOC stocks in mesic sites (Jackson et al. 2002).”
Effects of forest management on soil N cycling in beech forests stocking on calcareous soils (2006, background): “Loss of light-fraction SOM can occur when soils are disturbed (Alvarez et al. 1998; Wang et al. 1999) or when vegetation changes (Compton and Boone 2000; Jackson et al. 2001; Roscoe et al. 2001).”
Great Plains ecosystems: past, present, and future (2004, background): “Cases in point are the United States Department of Agriculture and the shelterbelt element of the Canadian Greencover Initiative to promote the planting of trees, which conflicts with carbon sequestration, a significant prairie ecosystem asset (Jackson et al. 2002).”
Structural and functional diversity of soil bacterial and fungal communities following woody plant encroachment in the southern Great Plains. (2010, background): “While the effects of mesquite encroachment have been shown to vary and can be altered by precipitation regime (Jackson et al., 2002), mesquite encroachment typically leads to enhanced levels of above- and belowground plant biomass (Hibbard et al.”
Impacts of shrub encroachment on ecosystem structure and functioning: towards a global synthesis (2011, background): “Our own data, however, are not consistent with observations by Jackson et al. (2002).”
Progress toward understanding the ecological impacts of nonnative species (2013, background): “…iucnmed/iucn_med_programme/species/invasive_species/ August 2013 265ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF NONNATIVE SPECIES R E V IE W S effects on carbon cycling, albedo, and hydrology in these regions (Williams and Baruch 2000, Jackson et al. 2002, Ehrenfeld 2011).”
Impact of China's Large-Scale Ecological Restoration Program on the Environment and Society in Arid and Semiarid Areas of China: Achievements, Problems, Synthesis, and Applications (2011, background): “Drought is a major worldwide constraint to the production of common vegetation types such as forests ( Jackson et al, 2002 ), and revegetation of arid regions such as those in China is primarily water-limited ( Liu, 2008 ).”
The invasive shrub European buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica, L.) alters soil properties in Midwestern U.S. woodlands (2006, background): “However, this is not the first study demonstrating that invasive plants can alter the chemistry of nitrogen and carbon in the soil (e.g. Vitousek and Walker, 1989; Witkowski, 1991; Ehrenfeld et al., 2001; Jackson et al., 2002).”
Direct and indirect effects of invasive species: Biodiversity loss is a major mechanism by which an invasive tree affects ecosystem functioning (2019, background): “This shows that Prosopis is not providing the anticipated benefits, mostly because it reduces native herbaceous species, which increase soil carbon stocks (Jackson et al., 2002) and are resilient against erosion (Bird, Herrick, Wander, & Murray, 2007).”
Altered ecosystem carbon and nitrogen cycles by plant invasion: a meta-analysis. (2008, background): “Christian & Wilson (1999) showed that, when A. cristatum invaded northern Great Plains, soil N availability was not different between invaded and native ecosystems sampled in June, but significantly lower in invaded than in native ecosystems sampled in both August and October Jackson et al. (2002) f”