Diversity loss, recruitment limitation, and ecosystem functioning: lessons learned from a removal experiment

By A. Symstad, David Tilman. 2001

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Subfields: Forestry, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science

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Ecosystem properties determined by plant functional group identity (2010, methodology): “Wardle et al. (1999) and Symstad & Tilman (2001) predict that compensation for biomass loss likely dependsmore on the traits of the plants remaining than of those removed.”
Extinction order and altered community structure rapidly disrupt ecosystem functioning. (2005, background): “…in response to local species loss may not occur for several reasons, including dispersal and recruitment limitations into vacated niches and disturbance-induced changes in factors regulating population size (Duarte 2000; Symstad & Tilman 2001; Kremen et al. 2002; Klein et al. 2003; Ricketts 2004).”
A trait-based experimental approach to understand the mechanisms underlying biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships (2014, methodology): “…plant communities of sown biodiversity experiments (Leps, 2004) led to alternative experimental approaches such as species removal experiments (e.g. Symstad & Tilman, 2001; Diaz, Symstad, Chapin, Wardle, & Huenneke, 2003; Urcelay, Diaz, Gurvich, Chapin, Cuevas, et al., 2009) with their own…”
Plant functional diversity and carbon storage – an empirical test in semi‐arid forest ecosystems (2013, background): “Some authors have experimentally removed species or functional groups from initially homogeneous communities in the field, both herbaceous (Symstad & Tilman 2001; Polley et al. 2006; McLaren & Turkington 2010; Joner et al. 2011) and woody (Aguiar & Sala 1994; Díaz et al. 2003; Bret-Harte et al.…”
DISENTANGLING THE IMPACTS OF DIVERSITY ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING IN COMBINATORIAL EXPERIMENTS (2002, unknown): “Thus, while plant experiments such as those by Hooper and Vitousek (1997), Tilman et al. (1997), Hector et al. (2000), Engelhardt and Ritchie (2001), Symstad and Tilman (2001), and Reich et al. (2001a) provide valuable insights into plant functional diversity and ecosystem functioning, they shed…”
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: reconciling the results of experimental and observational studies (2007, background): “Journal compilation © 2007 British Ecological Society, Functional Ecology , 21 , 998–1002 experimentally-controlled diversity gradient (by removing species from plots – cf. Symstad & Tilman 2001 – or by synthesizing communities of differing diversity from the Bibury species pool).”
The functional consequences of random vs. ordered species extinctions (2005, background): “…community and ecosystem processes, the extent to which their results can be used to understand natural systems is uncertain (Schmid et al. 2001; Symstad & Tilman 2001; Bengtsson et al. 2002; Holt & Loreau 2002; Symstad et al. 2003; Cardinale et al. 2004; Covich et al. 2004; Giller et al. 2004).”
Long-Term and Large-Scale Perspectives on the Relationship between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (2003, background): “These differences in recruitment limitation among functional groups in turn affected ecosystem properties such as aboveground plant January 2003 / Vol. 53 No. 1 • BioScience 95 biomass and soil N-leaching rates (Symstad and Tilman 2001).”
A baseline study of the diversity and community ecology of crab and molluscan macrofauna in the Sematan mangrove forest, Sarawak, Malaysia (2003, background): “Recent investigations have shown that loss of diversity can have a significant effect on ecosystem functioning in experimental systems (Naeem et al. 1994, 1996; Symstad & Tilman 2001, Tilman et al. 1996).”
NITROGEN DEPOSITION AND EXTINCTION RISK IN THE NORTHERN PITCHER PLANT, SARRACENIA PURPUREA (2002, background): “A detrimental feedback loop may emerge, in which increased N deposition causes the species’ extinction, and a consequent loss of the system’s capacity to absorb excess N (Reich et al. 2001, Symstad and Tilman 2001).”
Subordinate plant species enhance community resistance against drought in semi‐natural grasslands (2013, methodology): “Some studies have shown that species removal generally affects the remaining plant community, but with a time-lag in the response of plant groups or plant species (Wardle et al. 1999; Symstad & Tilman 2001).”