Nitrogen deposition causes widespread loss of species richness in British habitats

By Lindsay C. Maskell, Simon M. Smart, J. Bullock, K. Thompson, C. Stevens. 2010

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Subfields: Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

1. K. Verheyen
2. Jonathan Storkey
3. M. Wulf
4. Martin Hermy
5. Johnny Cornelis
6. K. Kirby
7. J. Compton
8. C. Stevens

In Environmental Chemistry

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3. J. Pfadenhauer
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In Nature and Landscape Conservation

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2. Martin Hermy
3. C. Stevens
4. J. Brunet
5. Jonathan Storkey
6. Daniel Guest
7. M. Wulf
8. C. Clark

Citations in the corpus

• Interactive effects of anthropogenic nitrogen enrichment and climate change on terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity (2013, background): “Overall declines in plant diversity associated with anthropogenic N deposition, described primarily in grasslands (Stevens et al. 2004, 2010; Clark and Tilman 2008; Dupré et al. 2010; Maskell et al. 2010), will affect dispersal and establishment by decreasing the pool of plant species available to m”
• Ammonia may play an important role in the succession of cyanobacterial blooms and the distribution of common algal species in shallow freshwater lakes (2012, background): “Meanwhile, it had showed that the enlarged nitrogen deposition was strongly negatively correlated with plant species richness in a wide range of ecosystem types (Stevens et al., 2006; Maskell et al., 2010; Mcclean et al., 2011).”
• Nitrogen enrichment enhances the dominance of grasses over forbs in a temperate steppe ecosystem (2011, background): “The effects of N deposition on communities are modified by other factors such as plants traits, climatic factors, and abiotic characteristics (Maskell et al., 2010).”
• Atmospheric nitrogen deposition in terrestrial ecosystems: Its impact on plant communities and consequences across trophic levels (2018, background): “2 As it is known that increasing fertility and decreasing pH favour graminoids over forbs and legumes 3 (Stevens et al. 2006; Maskell et al. 2010; Storkey et al. 2015b), two separate analyses were 4 conducted.”
• Nitrogen deposition is negatively related to species richness and species composition of vascular plants and bryophytes in Swiss mountain grassland (2013, background): “It is thus likely that N deposition will negatively impact the biodiversity and ecosystem function of mountain grassland as it has been demonstrated for lowland grassland (Clark and Tilman, 2008; Maskell et al., 2010).”
• Driving factors behind the eutrophication signal in understorey plant communities of deciduous temperate forests (2012, background): “2011) and observational studies along large deposition gradients (Stevens et al. 2004, 2010; Dupré et al. 2010; Maskell et al. 2010) indicate negative relationships between (cumulative) N addition and plant species richness.”
• Direct and indirect effects of nitrogen deposition on species composition change in calcareous grasslands (2011, background): “Both C. rotundifolia and B. media are regarded as poor competitors (Leishman, 1999; Dixon, 2002; Hutchings et al., 2003) and for C. rotundifolia, lower frequencies have been found at sites with high N deposition (Stevens et al., 2006; Maskell et al., 2010).”