Trophic control of grassland production and biomass by pathogens

By Charles E Mitchell. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Effects of elevated CO2, nitrogen deposition, and decreased species diversity on foliar fungal plant disease (2003, background): “…our site, foliar fungal pathogens decrease root production, root biomass, and soil respiration by decreasing leaf longevity and photosynthetic capacity (Mitchell, 2003), suggesting that increased community pathogen load may be a mechanism linking decreased diversity and these ecosystem processes .”
Arbuscular mycorrhizae and terrestrial ecosystem processes (2004, background): “This is nothing unique to mycorrhizal ecology or even microbial ecology in general, but also applies, for example, to the study of fungal plant pathogens: Mitchell (2003) presented the first attempt at quantifying foliar fungal pathogen biomass in an ecosystem.”
Climate change effects on plant disease: genomes to ecosystems. (2006, background): “(91) found that elevated CO2 increased the pathogen load (89) of C3 grasses, perhaps due to increased leaf longevity and photosynthetic rate.”
The Various Effects of Insects on Ecosystem Functioning (2008, background): “…can only be unravelled through manipulative studies where the number of insects in the ecosystem is either augmented or reduced, yet such studies are still very rare (e.g. Mulder et al. 1999; Belovsky and Slade 2000; Cardinale et al. 2002; 2003; Mitchell 2003; Montoya et al. 2003; Schmitz 2003).”
Is a healthy ecosystem one that is rich in parasites? (2006, background): “Host-specific pathogens, such as some rust species, impact the productivity of grasslands by damaging photosynthetic ability and root production [ 33 ].”
Potential impact of climate change on plant-pathogen interactions (2005, background): “…diseases in natural plant communities have been a neglected area but significant research and reviews in the 1980s and 1990s have recognised pathogens as a strong force which influences the structure, function and dynamics of plant communities (Gilbert 2002; Fuhrer 2003; Mitchell 2003).”
Branching out: Towards a trait-based understanding of fungal ecology (2015, background): “Instead we illustrate three key ecosystem processes for which we expect fungi to play an important role in terrestrial ecosystems: soil aggregation, plant productivity (host growth) and organicmatter decomposition (Boddy, 2001; Mitchell, 2003; Rillig et al., 2014).”