Punching above their weight: low‐biomass non‐native plant species alter soil properties during primary succession

By D. Peltzer, P. Bellingham, H. Kurokawa, L. Walker, David A. Wardle, G. Yeates. 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science

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Citations in the corpus

Invasive belowground mutualists of woody plants (2014, background): “Species that change ecosystem function have ecosystem effects much greater than would be predicted based on biomass (Peltzer et al. 2009).”
Early successional woody plants facilitate and ferns inhibit forest development on Puerto Rican landslides (2010, methodology): “Because of the scouring effects of a landslide, this experiment resembled an exclusion experiment and therefore avoided most legacy effects typical of removal experiments (Peltzer et al. 2009).”
Two co-occurring invasive woody shrubs alter soil properties and promote subdominant invasive species (2014, result): “Finally, the presence of subdominant invasive species in mixed plots may contribute to the variation we found in other plot properties (Peltzer et al. 2009), although our observational design precludes our disentangling these effects.”
Leaf dry matter content as a predictor of grassland litter decomposition: a test of the ‘mass ratio hypothesis’ (2011, background): “Removal experiments in early successional shrub communities showed that high biomass species do not necessarily exert the largest impacts on the community or soil properties and that lowbiomass species may be important for controlling certain processes (Peltzer et al. 2009).”
Invasion of Solidago gigantea in contrasting experimental plant communities: effects on soil microbes, nutrients and plant–soil feedbacks (2010, background): “Exotic plants can change the composition and functioning of microbial communities, alter soil food web structures and influence nutrient cycling (Ehrenfeld 2003; Belnap et al. 2005; Hawkes et al. 2005; Peltzer et al. 2009).”
Plant communities as drivers of soil respiration: pathways, mechanisms, and significance for global change (2011, background): “In a New396 Zealand shrub dominated floodplain, Peltzer et al. (2009) found that the removal of several exotic397 species with distinct life history and leaf traits, but comprising less than 3% of total plant398 biomass, caused significant reductions in surface litter, soil C and basal respiration,…”
Towards a framework for understanding the context dependence of impacts of non‐native tree species (2020, background): “Removal experiments can be used to generate a reference state (Peltzer et al., 2009), whereby the difference in a response variable between the invaded and non-invaded treatments can be used to quantify impact; these types of experiments would also incorporate legacy effects.”
Effects of biological invasions on forest carbon sequestration (2010, background): “…sought here, there are instances when unusual or novel functional traits result in invaders having unexpectedly large influences in ecosystems (e.g. Peltzer et al., 2009), for example, through disruption of interaction networks previously dominated by native species (e.g. disruption of native tree…”
Current mismatch between research and conservation efforts: The need to study co-occurring invasive plant species (2013, background): “For example, even when species compete by having different but substantial negative effects on the native community, they may have still more detrimental effects together than in isolation, since low-density species can still exert significant effects (Peltzer et al., 2009).”