The effects of fertilization and herbivory on the herbaceous vegetation of the boreal forest in north‐western Canada: a 10‐year study

By R. Turkington, E. John, S. Watson, P. Seccombe-Hett. 2002

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1 The influence of fertilizer addition and mammalian herbivore exclosures (a 2 × 2 factorial design, with four replicates at each of two sites) on the cover, species composition and diversity of the understorey vegetation of the boreal forest in the south‐western Yukon, Canada, were investigated from 1990 to 1999. This was done to test whether vegetation composition was controlled by resource level alone (bottom‐up control), herbivory alone (top‐down control), or by both (interactive control).

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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INVASIBILITY AND ABIOTIC GRADIENTS: THE POSITIVE CORRELATION BETWEEN NATIVE AND EXOTIC PLANT DIVERSITY (2005, background): “Studies in grasslands and forests have shown that increases in nitrogen have caused exclusion by increased competition (Turkington et al. 2002, Cornwell and Grubb 2003) or that other resources have become limiting to local diversity (Tessier and Raynal 2003).”
Soil microbial communities resistant to changes in plant functional group composition (2011, result): “This application rate was used to be consistent with many other studies being done in the area (e.g. Turkington et al., 1997; Turkington et al., 2002).”
Ecosystem properties determined by plant functional group identity (2010, background): “One of the most important drivers of future change in arctic vegetation is likely to be increased nutrient availability (Dormann & Woodin 2002), and grasses are particularly responsive to fertilization in a longer-term experiment in our region (Turkington et al. 2002) and in general (Dormann & Woodi”
Bottom‐up versus top‐down control of tree regeneration in the Białowieża Primeval Forest, Poland (2010, background): “Studies from boreal forest systems illustrate the overriding importance of abiotic bottom-up factors relative to biotic herbivore control (Turkington et al. 2002), whereas others show that abiotic and biotic factors change in importance during different stages of boreal forest primary succession (Ki”