SOIL MICROBIAL RESPONSES TO HERBIVORY IN AN ARCTIC TUNDRA HEATH AT TWO LEVELS OF NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY

By S. Stark, Doris Grellmann. 2002

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Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Atmospheric Science, General Health Professions

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4. R. Bardgett

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2. J. Olofsson
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Citations in the corpus

• Importance of large and small mammalian herbivores for the plant community structure in the forest tundra ecotone (2004, background): “2001, 2004, Olofsson and Oksanen 2002) or decrease (Stark and Grellmann 2002) nutrient availability for plants.”
• Trampling and Spatial Heterogeneity Explain Decomposer Abundances in a Sub-Arctic Grassland Subjected to Simulated Reindeer Grazing (2009, background): “These changes are further known to affect soil decomposer organisms, such as microbes (Guitian and Bardgett 2000; Stark and Grellmann 2002) and their animal grazers (Hokka and others 2004; Bazot and others 2005; Mikola and others 2005).”
• Do herbivores cause habitat degradation or vegetation state transition? Evidence from the tundra (2006, background): “Winter grazing on skeletal soils, such as ridges, may simply not raise nutrient availability for plants because grazing takes place outside the growing season and drying during summers prevents nutrient release from faeces into the soil ( Stark and Grellmann 2002 ).”
• Long- and short-term effects of reindeer grazing on tundra wetland vegetation (2009, background): “In addition, enhanced nutrient cycling appears to be a prerequisite for a vegetation shift towards graminoids (Stark and Grellman 2002).”
• Vertebrate herbivores and ecosystem control: cascading effects of faeces on tundra ecosystems (2004, background): “There is a growing body of evidence, however, indicating that tundra ecosystems are strongly influenced by grazing animals (Manseau et al. 1996, Jano et al. 1998, Virtanen 2000, Olofsson et al. 2001, Van der Wal et al. 2001a, b, Stark and Grellmann 2002).”
• LARGE HERBIVORES SUPPRESS DECOMPOSER ABUNDANCE IN A SEMIARID GRAZING ECOSYSTEM (2004, background): “Grazers reduce mi- crobial biomass in some cases (Garcia and Rice 1994, Holt 1997, Stark and Grellmann 2002), increase it in some (Singh et al. 1991, Bardgett et al. 1997, 2001, Stark et al. 2002), and have no, or idiosyncratic, effects on it in others (Kieft 1994, Tracy and Frank 1998, Wardle et…”