The Causes and Consequences of Compensatory Dynamics in Ecological Communities

By Andrew Gonzalez, Michel Loreau. 2009

488 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Ecology

1. Barbara C. Schmid
2. Stuart E. Jones
3. J. Lennon
4. C. Roscher
5. A. Weigelt
6. Eline A. Ampt
7. J. Schumacher
8. Takuya Furukawa

In Global and Planetary Change

1. C. Roscher
2. Takehiro Sasaki
3. Barbara C. Schmid
4. J. Schumacher
5. Takuya Furukawa
6. J. Lennon
7. Yongfei Bai
8. W. Weisser

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. Barbara C. Schmid
2. A. Weigelt
3. C. Roscher
4. L. Mommer
5. W. Weisser
6. J. van Ruijven
7. J. Schumacher
8. Elisabeth Marquard

Citations in the corpus

• Do soil‐borne fungal pathogens mediate plant diversity–productivity relationships? Evidence and future opportunities (2020, background): “For plant interactions, we only include compensation: the decline in biomass of the infected species is compensated by increased biomass production of the other species (Gilbert, 2002; Gonzalez & Loreau, 2009).”
• The effects of long-term fertilization on the temporal stability of alpine meadow communities (2011, unknown): “In addition, compensatory mechanisms may vary widely across communities (Houlahan et al. 2007; Gonzalez and Loreau 2009) and may be driven by a variety of mechanisms, including correlated responses to environmental drivers (Houlahan et al.”
• Species asynchrony and response diversity determine multifunctional stability of natural grasslands (2019, background): “Asynchronous responses of species to environmental fluctuations can be viewed as temporal complementarity among species (Gonzalez & Loreau, 2009; Loreau & de Mazancourt, 2013) and have been shown to be a major driver of ecosystem stability (Hautier et al., 2014; Hector et al., 2010; Isbell, Polley,…”
• Net effects of multiple stressors in freshwater ecosystems: a meta‐analysis (2016, background): “Although the prevalence of functional species compensation has been debated in the literature (Houlahan et al., 2007; Gonzalez & Loreau, 2009), several lines of evidence show it can help stabilize stressed freshwater communities (e.g. Klug et al., 2000; Fischer et al., 2001; Vinebrooke et al.,…”
• Microbial seed banks: the ecological and evolutionary implications of dormancy (2011, background): “Together, these features of dormancy are expected to contribute to compensatory dynamics and the stability of microbial communitie”
• Response diversity determines the resilience of ecosystems to environmental change (2013, background): “…theoretical developments suggest that an assembly of species with different responses to environmental fluctuations can stabilize an ecosystem function (e.g. process rate) in the face of environmental change, through compensatory dynamics among species (reviewed by Gonzalez & Loreau, 2009).”
• Identifying population‐ and community‐level mechanisms of diversity–stability relationships in experimental grasslands (2011, background): “A VR = 1 indicates that positive and negative covariances among species cancel each other out (Gonzalez & Loreau 2009).”