Search Results - "Wardle, David A"
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How lichens impact on terrestrial community and ecosystem properties
Published in Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (01-08-2017)“…ABSTRACT Lichens occur in most terrestrial ecosystems; they are often present as minor contributors, but in some forests, drylands and tundras they can make up…”
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The Overlooked Role of Facilitation in Biodiversity Experiments
Published in Trends in ecology & evolution (Amsterdam) (01-05-2017)“…Past research has demonstrated that decreased biodiversity often reduces ecosystem productivity, but variation in the shape of biodiversity–ecosystem function…”
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The influence of biotic interactions on soil biodiversity
Published in Ecology letters (01-07-2006)“…Belowground communities usually support a much greater diversity of organisms than do corresponding aboveground ones, and while the factors that regulate their…”
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Rhizosphere control of soil nitrogen cycling: a key component of plant economic strategies
Published in The New phytologist (01-11-2020)“…• Understanding how plant species influence soil nutrient cycling is a major theme in terrestrial ecosystem ecology. However, the prevailing paradigm has…”
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Long-term effects of species loss on community properties across contrasting ecosystems
Published in Nature (London) (01-05-2018)“…Biodiversity loss can heavily affect the functioning of ecosystems, and improving our understanding of how ecosystems respond to biodiversity decline is one of…”
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Plant-soil feedback and the maintenance of diversity in Mediterranean-climate shrublands
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (13-01-2017)“…Soil biota influence plant performance through plant-soil feedback, but it is unclear whether the strength of such feedback depends on plant traits and whether…”
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Community and Ecosystem Responses to Elevational Gradients: Processes, Mechanisms, and Insights for Global Change
Published in Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics (01-01-2013)“…Community structure and ecosystem processes often vary along elevational gradients. Their responses to elevation are commonly driven by changes in temperature,…”
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Carbon sequestration is related to mycorrhizal fungal community shifts during long‐term succession in boreal forests
Published in The New phytologist (01-03-2015)“…Boreal forest soils store a major proportion of the global terrestrial carbon (C) and below‐ground inputs contribute as much as above‐ground plant litter to…”
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Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales
Published in Nature (London) (01-06-2017)“…Biodiversity enhances many of nature's benefits to people, including the regulation of climate and the production of wood in forests, livestock forage in…”
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Impacts of biological invasions: what's what and the way forward
Published in Trends in ecology & evolution (Amsterdam) (01-01-2013)“…Study of the impacts of biological invasions, a pervasive component of global change, has generated remarkable understanding of the mechanisms and consequences…”
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The use of chronosequences in studies of ecological succession and soil development
Published in The Journal of ecology (01-07-2010)“…1. Chronosequences and associated space-for-time substitutions are an important and often necessary tool for studying temporal dynamics of plant communities…”
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Global change and species interactions in terrestrial ecosystems
Published in Ecology letters (01-12-2008)“…The main drivers of global environmental change (CO₂ enrichment, nitrogen deposition, climate, biotic invasions and land use) cause extinctions and alter…”
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Fire-Derived Charcoal Causes Loss of Forest Humus
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (02-05-2008)“…Fire is a global driver of carbon storage and converts a substantial proportion of plant biomass to black carbon (for example, charcoal), which remains in the…”
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Litter quality and environmental controls of home-field advantage effects on litter decomposition
Published in Oikos (01-02-2015)“…The ‘home-field advantage (HFA) hypothesis’ predicts that plant litter is decomposed faster than expected in the vicinity of the plant where it originates from…”
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Contrasting effects of plant inter- and intraspecific variation on community-level trait measures along an environmental gradient
Published in Functional ecology (01-10-2013)“…1. Despite widespread focus on interspecific variation in trait-based ecology, there is growing evidence that intraspecific trait variability can play a…”
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Climate change effects on plant-soil feedbacks and consequences for biodiversity and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems
Published in Science advances (01-11-2019)“…Plant-soil feedbacks (PSFs) are interactions among plants, soil organisms, and abiotic soil conditions that influence plant performance, plant species…”
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Plant-soil feedbacks: the past, the present and future challenges
Published in The Journal of ecology (01-03-2013)“…1. Plant-soil feedbacks is becoming an important concept for explaining vegetation dynamics, the invasiveness of introduced exotic species in new habitats and…”
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Impacts of climate on the biodiversity-productivity relationship in natural forests
Published in Nature communications (21-12-2018)“…Understanding biodiversity-productivity relationships (BPRs) is of theoretical importance, and has important management implications. Most work on BPRs has…”
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Terrestrial Ecosystem Responses to Species Gains and Losses
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (10-06-2011)“…Ecosystems worldwide are losing some species and gaining others, resulting in an interchange of species that is having profound impacts on how these ecosystems…”
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Linking litter decomposition of above- and below-ground organs to plant-soil feedbacks worldwide
Published in The Journal of ecology (01-07-2013)“…1. Conceptual frameworks relating plant traits to ecosystem processes such as organic matter dynamics are progressively moving from a leaf-centred to a…”
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