Search Results - "Crawley, Michael J."

Effects of long-term grassland management on the carbon and nitrogen pools of different soil aggregate fractions by Egan, Gary, Crawley, Michael J., Fornara, Dario A.

“…•Long-term grazing, liming and nutrient fertilization effects on soil aggregates•Liming significantly increased C and N pools of small soil aggregate…”
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Nitrogen and Phosphorus Additions Alter the Abundance of Phosphorus-Solubilizing Bacteria and Phosphatase Activity in Grassland Soils by Widdig, Meike, Schleuss, Per-M., Weig, Alfons R., Guhr, Alexander, Biederman, Lori A., Borer, Elizabeth T., Crawley, Michael J., Kirkman, Kevin P., Seabloom, Eric W., Wragg, Peter D., Spohn, Marie

“…Microorganisms mobilize phosphorus (P) in soil by solubilizing bound inorganic P from soil minerals and by mineralizing organic P via phosphatase enzymes…”
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Sex differences in relationships between habitat use and reproductive performance in Soay sheep (Ovis aries) by Regan, Charlotte. E, Pilkington, Jill. G, Pemberton, Josephine. M, Crawley, Michael. J, Gaillard, Jean‐Michel

“…The role of habitat use in generating individual variation in fitness has rarely been examined empirically in natural populations of long‐lived mammals,…”
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Foliar fungal pathogens and grassland biodiversity by Allan, Eric, van Ruijven, Jasper, Crawley, Michael J

“…By attacking plants, herbivorous mammals, insects, and belowground pathogens are known to play an important role in maintaining biodiversity in grasslands…”
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Contemporary Evolution of Plant Growth Rate Following Experimental Removal of Herbivores by Turley, Nash E., Odell, Walter C., Schaefer, Hanno, Everwand, Georg, Crawley, Michael J., Johnson, Marc T. J.

“…Herbivores are credited with driving the evolutionary diversification of plant defensive strategies over macroevolutionary time. For this to be true,…”
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Are grazing increaser species better tolerators than decreasers? An experimental assessment of defoliation tolerance in eight British grassland species by Del-Val, E.K, Crawley, M.J

“…1 The importance of tolerance to herbivory for plant survival has long been recognized, but capacity for regrowth following recurrent defoliation has rarely…”
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Beyond the EDGE with EDAM: Prioritising British Plant Species According to Evolutionary Distinctiveness, and Accuracy and Magnitude of Decline by Pearse, William D, Chase, Mark W, Crawley, Michael J, Dolphin, Konrad, Fay, Michael F, Joseph, Jeffrey A, Powney, Gary, Preston, Chris D, Rapacciuolo, Giovanni, Roy, David B, Purvis, Andy

“…Conservation biologists have only finite resources, and so must prioritise some species over others. The EDGE-listing approach ranks species according to their…”
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Seed mass and the competition/colonization trade-off: a sowing experiment by Turnbull, Lindsay A., Rees, Mark, Crawley, Michael J.

“…1. A seed-addition experiment using seven co-occurring annual plant species with a range of seed masses was carried out in a limestone grassland in South…”
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Contrasting effects of insect and molluscan herbivores on plant diversity in a long-term field experiment by Allan, Eric, Crawley, Michael J.

“…Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 1246–1253 The importance of invertebrate herbivores in regulating plant communities remains unclear, due to the absence of long‐term…”
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Macroeconomic Consequences of Accounting: The Effect of Accounting Conservatism on Macroeconomic Indicators and the Money Supply by Crawley, Michael J.

“…This study investigates the macroeconomic consequences of firm-level accounting conservatism. Consistent with conditional conservatism extending to the…”
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Spatially structured population dynamics in feral oilseed rape by Crawley, Michael J., Brown, Susan L.

“…< 1). Many quadrats remained unoccupied throughout the study period, but a few were occupied at high densities for all 10 years. Most quadrats showed transient…”
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Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness by Grace, James B., Anderson, T. Michael, Seabloom, Eric W., Borer, Elizabeth T., Adler, Peter B., Harpole, W. Stanley, Hautier, Yann, Hillebrand, Helmut, Lind, Eric M., Pärtel, Meelis, Bakker, Jonathan D., Buckley, Yvonne M., Crawley, Michael J., Damschen, Ellen I., Davies, Kendi F., Fay, Philip A., Firn, Jennifer, Gruner, Daniel S., Hector, Andy, Knops, Johannes M. H., MacDougall, Andrew S., Melbourne, Brett A., Morgan, John W., Orrock, John L., Prober, Suzanne M., Smith, Melinda D.

“…Data from grasslands across five continents show clear signals of numerous underlying mechanisms linking ecosystem productivity and species richness…”
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Multi-nutrient vs. nitrogen-only effects on carbon sequestration in grassland soils by Fornara, Dario A., Banin, Lindsay, Crawley, Michael J.

“…Human activities have greatly increased the availability of biologically active forms of nutrients [e.g., nitrogen (N), phosphorous (P), potassium (K),…”
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Temporal variation in effect sizes in a long-term, split-plot field experiment by Leverkus, Alexandro B., Crawley, Michael J.

“…Ecological field experiments initiate successional and evolutionary changes among resident species, yet effect sizes are often reported as if they were…”
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Effects of grassland management on plant C:N:P stoichiometry: implications for soil element cycling and storage by Heyburn, Jemma, McKenzie, Paul, Crawley, Michael J., Fornara, Dario A.

“…The functioning of human‐managed grassland ecosystems strongly depends on how common management practices (e.g., animal grazing and the chronic addition of…”
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Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation by Borer, Elizabeth T., Seabloom, Eric W., Gruner, Daniel S., Harpole, W. Stanley, Hillebrand, Helmut, Lind, Eric M., Adler, Peter B., Alberti, Juan, Anderson, T. Michael, Bakker, Jonathan D., Biederman, Lori, Blumenthal, Dana, Brown, Cynthia S., Brudvig, Lars A., Buckley, Yvonne M., Cadotte, Marc, Chu, Chengjin, Cleland, Elsa E., Crawley, Michael J., Daleo, Pedro, Damschen, Ellen I., Davies, Kendi F., DeCrappeo, Nicole M., Du, Guozhen, Firn, Jennifer, Hautier, Yann, Heckman, Robert W., Hector, Andy, HilleRisLambers, Janneke, Iribarne, Oscar, Klein, Julia A., Knops, Johannes M. H., La Pierre, Kimberly J., Leakey, Andrew D. B., Li, Wei, MacDougall, Andrew S., McCulley, Rebecca L., Melbourne, Brett A., Mitchell, Charles E., Moore, Joslin L., Mortensen, Brent, O'Halloran, Lydia R., Orrock, John L., Pascual, Jesús, Prober, Suzanne M., Pyke, David A., Risch, Anita C., Schuetz, Martin, Smith, Melinda D., Stevens, Carly J., Sullivan, Lauren L., Williams, Ryan J., Wragg, Peter D., Wright, Justin P., Yang, Louie H.

“…Experimental data collected from 40 grasslands on 6 continents show that nutrients and herbivores can serve as counteracting forces to control local plant…”
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Long-term belowground effects of grassland management: the key role of liming by Heyburn, Jemma, McKenzie, Paul, Crawley, Michael J., Fornara, Dario A.

“…The functioning of human-managed grassland ecosystems strongly depends on how common management practices will affect grassland "belowground compartment"…”
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Patterns of rarity in the native British flora by Pilgrim, Emma S, Crawley, Michael J, Dolphin, Konrad

“…We have combined published data on ecology and conservation status with phylogenetic information for all native British angiosperms. We use this information to…”
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Chronic nitrogen fertilization and carbon sequestration in grassland soils: evidence of a microbial enzyme link by Cenini, Valeria L., Fornara, Dario A., McMullan, Geoffrey, Ternan, Nigel, Lajtha, Kate, Crawley, Michael J.

“…Chronic nitrogen (N) fertilization can greatly affect soil carbon (C) sequestration by altering biochemical interactions between plant detritus and soil…”
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Long-term effects of grassland management on soil microbial abundance: implications for soil carbon and nitrogen storage by Egan, Gary, Zhou, Xue, Wang, Dongmei, Jia, Zhongjun, Crawley, Michael J., Fornara, Dario

“…Grassland management intensification can significantly affect the structure and composition of important soil microbial groups such as bacteria and fungi…”
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