Impacts of ecosystem engineers on community attributes: effects of cushion plants at different elevations of the Chilean Andes

By E. Badano, L. Cavieres. 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, 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): “A number of recent studies quantitatively support this generalization (Wright et al. 2002, Lill and Marquis 2003, Castilla et al. 2004, Badano and Cavieres 2006b) although there were considerable differences in the way these effects were quantified.”
Variability in functional traits mediates plant interactions along stress gradients (2013, background): “Cushion plants are well-known autogenic ecosystem engineers (sensu Jones, Lawton & Shachak 1994), which profoundly modify the physical environment (Badano & Cavieres 2006) and affect community assembly processes (Sch€ob, Butterfield & Pugnaire 2012).”
Quantitative and Qualitative β Diversity Measures Lead to Different Insights into Factors That Structure Microbial Communities (2007, background): “Other studies of plant diversity in alpine tundra (1), shrub-steppe (17), and tallgrass prairie (23) and of phytoplankton diversity (32) have also found important and biologically meaningful differences in quantitative and qualitative diversity.”
Ecosystem engineering facilitates invasions by exotic plants in high‐Andean ecosystems (2007, background): “…when environmental modifications performed by ecosystem engineers result in amelioration of physical stress, it has been observed that their positive effects on other species increase as the surrounding unmodified habitat becomes harsher (Wright & Jones 2004; Badano & Cavieres 2006a; Wright et al .”
Bioengineer effects on understory species richness, diversity, and composition change along an environmental stress gradient: Experimental and mensurative evidence (2013, background): “It is difficult to draw definitive conclusions from such studies because different bioengineer species could differ in traits affecting their propensity to increase species richness regardless of environmental conditions (Badano and Cavieres, 2006; Lamit et al., 2011).”