APPLYING PLANT FACILITATION TO FOREST RESTORATION: A META-ANALYSIS OF THE USE OF SHRUBS AS NURSE PLANTS

By L. Gómez‐Aparicio, Regino Zamora, J. Gómez, J. Hódar, J. Castro, Elena Baraza. 2004

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Subfields: Forestry, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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Nurse plant theory and its application in ecological restoration in lower subtropics of China (2008, background): “The positive effects of nurse plant on the shaded-tolerant pine and shrubs in late succession period are more than those on pioneer species and shaded-intolerant species [12].”
Ontogenetic shifts in interactions of two dominant shrub species in a semi‐arid coastal sand dune system (2009, background): “1994; Barnes &Archer 1999; Flores & Jurado 2003), and ‘‘nursing’’ by shrubs is a pivotal feature of the community (Callaway &Walker 1997; Gómez-Aparicio et al. 2004; Padilla & Pugnaire 2006).”
The role of plant interactions in the restoration of degraded ecosystems: a meta‐analysis across life‐forms and ecosystems (2009, background): “Thus, in Mediterranean post-fire shrublands pioneer shrubs have been shown to act as nurse plants that benefit the establishment of late-successional woody species (Gómez-Aparicio et al. 2004; Castro, Zamora & Hódar 2006; Siles et al. 2008).”
Irradiance and oak seedling survival and growth in a heterogeneous environment (2007, background): “…due to summer drought appeared visibly dried and brownish while ungulate damage was undoubtedly discernible by a clear cut on the shoot or by the complete absence of the seedling, with a remnant hole or tracers on the ground (Gómez et al., 2003a; Gómez, 2004; Gómez-Aparicio et al., 2004).”
Refining the stress‐gradient hypothesis for competition and facilitation in plant communities (2009, neutral): “…Callaway 1996; Maestre & Cortina 2004), a few pairs of species (e.g. Donovan & Richards 2000), or one benefactor and a suite of beneficiaries (e.g. Callaway et al. 1991; Pugnaire & Luque 2001; Tewksbury & Lloyd 2001; but see Choler et al. 2001, Callaway et al. 2002 and Gómez-Aparicio et al. 2004).”
Facilitation of Quercus ilex in Mediterranean shrubland is explained by both direct and indirect interactions mediated by herbs (2010, background): “The response to facilitation has been demonstrated to vary among species (Gómez-Aparicio et al. 2004; Liancourt, Callaway & Michalet 2005; Padilla & Pugnaire 2009).”
The role of nurse plants in the restoration of degraded environments (2006, background): “Gómez-Aparicio et al. (2004), for example, found that facilitation effects were stronger in dry locations and on the south-facing slopes of a dry Mediterranean mountain.”
Spatio-temporal heterogeneity in abiotic factors modulate multiple ontogenetic shifts between competition and facilitation (2010, background): “These spatio-temporal changes in water availability have been pointed as a major factor defining the final outcome of plant–plant interactions in drylands (Tielbörger and Kadmon, 2000; Pugnaire and Luque, 2001; Gómez-Aparicio et al., 2004; Miriti, 2007).”
Alleviation of Summer Drought Boosts Establishment Success of Pinus sylvestris in a Mediterranean Mountain: An Experimental Approach (2005, background): “The notable effect of irrigation on establishment in this microhabitat as compared to open areas (Figure 2) was presumably due to the effect of other abiotic variables that are ameliorated under the canopy of shrubs but not in open areas, such as a higher air relative humidity or lower soil temperat”
Phylogenetic signatures of facilitation and competition in successional communities (2009, background): “…are also emerging from restoration ecology in which the identification of assembly rules mediated by facilitation, mainly at intermediate stages (Gómez-Aparicio et al. 2004; Siles 2008; Gómez-Aparicio 2009, this issue; G. Siles et al., unpubl. data), appear crucial for achieving the desired…”
Facilitation of Quercus ilex recruitment by shrubs in Mediterranean open woodlands (2008, background): “Seedlings of many tree species profit from the presence of various nurse shrubs in Mediterranean forests (Castro et al. 2002, 2004; Gómez-Aparicio et al. 2004; Pulido & Díaz 2005), despite variation in the magnitude of facilitative effects between species.”
Facilitation in plant communities: the past, the present, and the future (2007, background): “As strikingly illustrated by the work of Gómez-Aparicio et al. (2004) discussed above, Sutherland et al. (2004) proposed that ‘Much of current conservation practice is based upon anecdote and myth’.”