Ecosystem Engineering across Environmental Gradients: Implications for Conservation and Management

By Caitlin MULLAN CRAIN, M. Bertness. 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Oceanography

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Reintroduction of fossorial native mammals and potential impacts on ecosystem processes in an Australian desert landscape (2007, background): “Ecosystem engineers may also increase species richness, diversity and productivity by creating patches of habitat differing in resource availability, thus enabling organisms of different resource requirements to coexist (Day et al., 2003; Odling-Smee et al., 2003).”
The Implications of Niche Construction and Ecosystem Engineering for Conservation Biology (2006, background): “Preservation of the apex predators of trophic cascades may be necessary for conserving ecosystems, but it is not sufficient, as key ecosystem engineers may be providing the structural and functional foundations of ecosystems (Crain and Bertness 2006).”
Facilitation in plant communities: the past, the present, and the future (2007, background): “We gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided for this meeting by the European Science Foundation, and thank Pierre Chardy and Xavier de Montaudouin for hosting the meeting.”
Bioengineer effects on understory species richness, diversity, and composition change along an environmental stress gradient: Experimental and mensurative evidence (2013, background): “For regional biotas, stress influences local species richness through effects on interspecific interactions (Menge et al., 2002; Crain and Bertness, 2006).”
Ecosystem engineering in space and time. (2007, background): “Another important question is the degree to which ecosystem engineering effects vary across environmental gradients ( Crain & Bertness 2006 ).”
Intertidal mussels as ecosystem engineers: their associated invertebrate biodiversity under contrasting wave exposures (2014, background): “Such organisms are known as ecosystem engineers, bioengineers, or foundation species (Crain and Bertness 2006; Jones et al. 2010).”
Progress toward understanding the ecological impacts of nonnative species (2013, background): “In highly stressful environments, ecosystem engineers may facilitate a range of native and nonnative species by ameliorating stressful conditions (Crain and Bertness 2006), but they can lower species richness by reducing system complexity (Crooks 2002) or by shifting ecosystem productivity away…”
Impacts of bottom and suspended cultures of mussels Mytilus spp. on the surrounding sedimentary environment and macrobenthic biodiversity (2009, background): “Their impact and importance are likely to shift across environmental stress gradients (Crain and Bertness 2006).”
Diversity and natural history of a Lithothamnion muelleri-Sargassum horridum community in the Gulf of California (2007, background): “The functions of foundation species are similar to those of “ecosystem engineers”, and Crain and Bertness (2006) suggest that foundation species are “dominant engineers”.”
The Concept of Organisms as Ecosystem Engineers Ten Years On: Progress, Limitations, and Challenges (2006, background): “Furthermore, if we can then understand how the ecosystem engineering activities of organisms will vary in different environmental contexts, we can begin to predict how the effects of ecosystem engineering are likely to vary across environmental gradients (Crain and Bertness 2006, Moore 2006).”
Scatter-hoarding corvids as seed dispersers for oaks and pines: A review of a widely distributed mutualism and its utility to habitat restoration (2016, background): “Such engineering is central to ecosystem restoration because it provides long-lasting changes that extend beyond an individual plant's area and life span (Byers et al. 2006, Crain and Bertness 2006, Hastings et al. 2007).”
Species diversity in the soft-bottom intertidal zone: Biogenic structure, sediment, and macrofauna across mussel bed spatial scales (2008, background): “, 2007), but they generally have not been incorporated into recent conceptual papers on facilitation, where many examples come from hard-substrate marine habitats (Bruno et al., 2003; Crain and Bertness, 2006; Hastings et al., 2007).”
Ecological Inheritance and Cultural Inheritance: What Are They and How Do They Differ? (2011, background): “…the natural control webs stemming from the niche-constructing/ecosystem-engineering activities of its constituent organisms that are vital to the functioning of ecosystems (Jones et al. 1994, 1997), with important implications for conservation (Boogert et al. 2006; Crain and Bertness 2006).”
Is the loss of Australian digging mammals contributing to a deterioration in ecosystem function (2014, background): “Restoration projects may therefore need to consider the reintroduction of digging mammals (Crain & Bertness 2006, James & Eldridge 2007).”