Seed Bank and Understorey Species Composition in a Semi-arid Environment: The Effect of Shrub Age and Rainfall

By F. Pugnaire, R. Lázaro. 2000

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

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Assessing impacts of ecosystem engineers on community organization: a general approach illustrated by effects of a high‐Andean cushion plant (2006, background): “For example, different trees species may well create different local light, water and thermal environments (Suzán et al. 1996, Barnes and Archer 1999, Pugnaire and Lázaro 2000), but in a forest such environments likely overlap.”
Changes in plant interactions along a gradient of environmental stress (2001, background): “Other non-experimental studies also indicate that competitive effects are stronger in wet and cool years and facilitative in dry, hot years (Fuentes et al. 1984, De Jong and Klinkhamer 1988, McClaran and Bartolome 1989, Belsky 1994, Pugnaire and Lázaro 2000).”
Colonization processes in semi-arid Mediterranean old-fields (2006, background): “It has a conspicuous understory vegetation of annual and perennial species, which affects soil fertility (Pugnaire et al., 1996; Pugnaire and Lázaro, 2000).”
Direct and indirect interactions co‐determine species composition in nurse plant systems (2013, background): “Mean annual rainfall is 256 mm and annual mean temperature is 15.8°C (Pugnaire and Lázaro 2000).”
Influence of Grazing on Soil Seed Banks Determines the Restoration Potential of Aboveground Vegetation in a Semi‐arid Savanna of Ethiopia (2012, background): “The balance between trees and grasses, however, is often highly disturbed due to heavy grazing and poor management (Pugnaire & Lazaro 2000, Van Auken 2000).”
Remnant shrubs in Mediterranean semi-arid steppes: effects of shrub size, abiotic factors and species identity on understorey richness and occurrence (2005, background): “Thus, they are a key element for community structure and dynamics in semi-arid ecosystems, and act as “hot spots” of diversity in these areas (Pugnaire and Lázaro, 2000).”
Hydraulic lift: soil processes and transpiration in the Mediterranean leguminous shrub Retama sphaerocarpa (L.) Boiss (2010, background): “Mean annual precipitation in the area is 250 mm (Lazaro et al. 2001) and mean temperature is 18.2°C ( Pugnaire and Lazaro 2000 ).”
Soil microbial community under a nurse-plant species changes in composition, biomass and activity as the nurse grows (2013, background): “The frequency of some species increaseswith shrub size despite lack of differences in soil seed bank (Pugnaire and Lazaro, 2000).”
Variability in amount and frequency of water supply affects roots but not growth of arid shrubs (2009, background): “…in Europe with less than 250 mm year-1 (Capel-Molina 2000), rainfall timing and amount greatly influence germination and seedling establishment (Pugnaire and Lázaro 2000; Lázaro 2004; Pugnaire et al. 2006; Padilla and Pugnaire 2007), but there is little information about the effects of…”