Soil nutrient heterogeneity alters competition between two perennial grass species

By Bart Fransen, H. de Kroon, F. Berendse. 2001

218 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Environmental Chemistry, Soil Science

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In Agronomy and Crop Science

1. H. Schenk
2. H. de Kroon
3. M. Hutchings
4. E. John
5. L. Mommer
6. J. van Ruijven
7. D. Wijesinghe
8. Boris Rewald

In Environmental Chemistry

1. E. John
2. M. Hutchings
3. P. Jolliffe
4. A. Weigelt

In Soil Science

1. H. Schenk
2. M. Hutchings
3. E. John
4. H. de Kroon
5. L. Mommer
6. R. Bardgett
7. J. van Ruijven
8. K. J. Day

Citations in the corpus

• Identifying mechanisms of competition in multi‐species communities (2007, background): “© 2006 The Authors Journal compilation © 2006 British Ecological Society, Journal of Ecology 95 , 53‐64 to test the effect of varying resource availability (Van Mierlo et al . 2000), resource distribution ( Fransen et al . 2001 ), herbivory (Siemens et al . 2002), species density (Howard 2001) and f”
• Indices of plant competition (2003, background): “…Ecological Society, Journal of Ecology, 91, 707–720 nr. 27, Willey & Rao 1980; Firbank & Watkinson 1985; Connolly 1986; Rejmanek et al. 1989; Firbank & Watkinson 1990; Snaydon 1991; Cousens & O’Neill 1993; Connolly et al. 2001; Fransen et al. 2001) was not clearly defined by de Wit (Snaydon 1991).”
• Does pattern of soil resource heterogeneity determine plant community structure? An experimental investigation (2005, background): “The fact that species responded differently to the treatments suggests that some interspecific competitive relationships between species were affected by treatment (Fransen et al. 2001; Novoplansky & Goldberg 2001).”
• Trade-off between root nitrogen acquisition and shoot nitrogen utilization across 13 co-occurring pasture grass species (2009, background): “…concept of a second trade-off, between a below-ground space occupation strategy (high root area but low investment in N transporters per root area) (Fransen et al. 2001; Craine et al. 2002), and a sink strength strategy (low root area but high investment in N transporters per root area) (Raynaud &…”
• Very fine roots respond to soil depth: biomass allocation, morphology, and physiology in a broad-leaved temperate forest (2010, background): “... for the combined effects of these traits (Pregitzer et al. 2002; Guo et al. 2004, 2008a, b). However, studies of tree seedlings grown under laboratory conditions have shown that root morphological and physiological plasticity in response to soil properties can increase root potential capacity by”
• The effects of spatial pattern of nutrient supply on yield, structure and mortality in plant populations (2003, background): “3a), despite values having been greater in heterogeneous conditions after 31 days of growth (Day et al. 2003a; see also Fransen et al. 2001).”
• Influence of microbial activity on plant–microbial competition for organic and inorganic nitrogen (2006, background): “…A. odoratum is more suppressed by interspecific competition from F. rubra than by intraspecific competition, whilst the opposite mostly holds for F. rubra (Fransen et al. 2001), suggesting that F. rubra is better of the two species in acquiring nutrients when competing with the other plant species.”
• Linking root traits and competitive success in grassland species (2016, unknown): “…enables the plant to take up nutrients where the largest profit is to be expected and can be advantageous for performance under heterogeneous nutrient distributions (Cahill Jr and McNickle 2011; Fransen et al. 2001; Hodge 2004; Hodge et al. 1999; Robinson et al. 1999; Shemesh et al. 2010).”
• Contrasting root behaviour in two grass species: a test of functionality in dynamic heterogeneous conditions (2011, background): “Interestingly, in a 2-year container experiment using the same two grasses (Fransen et al. 2001), F.”
• DEFINING A PLANT'S BELOWGROUND ZONE OF INFLUENCE (2003, background): “Many studies examining plant responses to nutrient patches have worked with isolated, potted plants, and we need to know whether their findings extrapolate to competing individuals (Hutchings and de Kroon 1994, Robinson et al. 1999, Fransen et al. 2001).”