The response of plant diversity to ecosystem retrogression: evidence from contrasting long‐term chronosequences

By David A. Wardle, R. Bardgett, L. Walker, D. Peltzer, Anna Lagerström. 2008

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Diversity increases carbon storage and tree productivity in Spanish forests (2014, methodology): “Other potential drivers of 356 carbon storage and tree productivity such as soil fertility (Wardle et al., 2008) or 357 historical management (Vilà et al., 2005) could not be explored because of their 358 unavailability at the large-scale used in this study (e.g. Gómez-Aparicio et al., 2011).”
Changes in coexistence mechanisms along a long‐term soil chronosequence revealed by functional trait diversity (2012, methodology): “This approach would complement existing knowledge of changes in taxonomic diversity (Wardle et al. 2008) or functional trait and species composition (e.g. Vitousek, Turner & Kitayama 1995; Richardson et al. 2004), thus improving our understanding of the processes driving vegetation change across…”
Grazing triggers soil carbon loss by altering plant roots and their control on soil microbial community (2009, background): “the last 20 years, theses questions have inspired various experiments in forests and grasslands (Pickett & White 1986; McNaughton, Banyikwa & McNaughton 1997; Bardgett & McAlistair 1999; Wardle et al. 2008).”
Linking vegetation change, carbon sequestration and biodiversity: insights from island ecosystems in a long‐term natural experiment (2012, background): “For plants, there is a significant increase during retrogression of both vascular plant species richness and the Shannon–Weiner diversity index (hereafter diversity index) (Wardle et al. 2008a), but no corresponding shifts in these measures for mosses (Table 2).”