| Titre : | Journal of Ecology 105(4) - JUL 2017 |
| Type de document : | Bulletin |
| Paru le : | 01/07/2017 |
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Article
Peng Wang, Auteur ;
Juul Limpens, Auteur ;
Liesje Mommer, Auteur ;
Jasper van Ruijven, Auteur ;
Ake L. Nauta, Auteur ;
Frank Berendse, Auteur ;
Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, Auteur ;
Daan Blok, Auteur ;
Trofim C. Maximov, Auteur ;
Monique M. P. D. Heijmans, Auteur
1. Climate warming is faster in the Arctic than the global average. Nutrient availability in the tundra soil is expected to increase by climate warming through (i) accelerated nutrient mobilization in the surface soil layers, and (ii) increased [...]
Article
Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Auteur ;
Nicolas Gross, Auteur ;
Fernando T. Maestre, Auteur ;
Vincent Maire, Auteur ;
Francesco de Bello, Auteur ;
Carlos Roberto Fonseca, Auteur ;
Jens Kattge, Auteur ;
Enrique Valencia, Auteur ;
Jan Leps, Auteur ;
Pierre Liancourt, Auteur
1. The environmental filtering hypothesis predicts that the abiotic environment selects species with similar trait values within communities. Testing this hypothesis along multiple -and interacting gradients of climate and soil variables constit[...]
Article
Christina L. Rinas, Auteur ;
Roman J. Dial, Auteur ;
Patrick F. Sullivan, Auteur ;
T. Scott Smeltz, Auteur ;
S. Carl Tobin, Auteur ;
Michael Loso, Auteur ;
Jason E. Geck, Auteur
1. Tall-shrub expansion into low-statured communities, a hallmark of recent vegetative change across tundra ecosystems, involves three major genera: Alnus, Betula and Salix. Which genus expands most into tundra landscapes will determine ecosyste[...]
Article
Thomas J. Thirkell, Auteur ;
Michael D. Charters, Auteur ;
Ashleigh J. Elliott, Auteur ;
Steven M. Sait, Auteur ;
Katie J. Field, Auteur
1. The 20th century saw dramatic increases in agricultural productivity, largely through the development and application of pesticides, fertilisers rich in nitrogen and phosphorus, and advances in plant breeding and genetic technologies. In the [...]
Article
Franciska T. de Vries, Auteur ;
Matthew D. Wallenstein, Auteur
1. Healthy soils that contain an active microbiome and food web are critical to sustainably produce food for a growing global human population. Many studies have focussed on the role of microbial species diversity and the presence of key functio[...]
Article
Jasmin G. Packer, Auteur ;
Laura A. Meyerson, Auteur ;
Hana Skalova, Auteur ;
Petr Pyšek, Auteur ;
Christoph Kueffer, Auteur
1. This account presents comprehensive information on the biology of Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud. (P. communis Trin.; common reed) that is relevant to understanding its ecological characteristics and behaviour. The main topics are[...]
Article
David J. Gibson, Auteur ;
Bryan G. Young, Auteur ;
Andrew J. Wood, Auteur
1. Sustainable cropping systems are needed for future food security. One aspect of sustainable cropping is to manage for desirable grain quality of crops including seed size, protein, oil and metabolite composition. 2. Plant ecology theory on ni[...]
Article
Yanjie Liu, Auteur ;
Mark van Kleunen, Auteur
1. Global environmental change not only includes changes in mean environmental conditions but also in temporal environmental fluctuations. Because it is frequently suggested that common species, and particularly invasive alien species, are pheno[...]
Article
Forest Isbell, Auteur ;
Paul R. Adler, Auteur ;
Nico Eisenhauer, Auteur ;
Dario Fornara, Auteur ;
Kaitlin Kimmel, Auteur ;
Claire Kremen, Auteur ;
Deborah K. Letourneau, Auteur ;
Matt Liebman, Auteur ;
H. Wayne Polley, Auteur ;
Sandra Quijas, Auteur ;
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Auteur
1. Recent studies have revealed many potential benefits of increasing plant diversity in natural ecosystems, as well as in agroecosystems and production forests. Plant diversity potentially provides a partial to complete substitute for many cost[...]
Article
Insu Jo, Auteur ;
Jason D. Fridley, Auteur ;
Douglas A. Frank, Auteur
1. Although it is widely believed that non-native invasive species threaten the functional integrity of forest ecosystems, their impact on important ecosystem processes such as nitrogen (N) cycling is not well understood. 2. To examine how invas[...]
Article
Sarah V. Wyse, Auteur ;
John B. Dickie, Auteur
1. The ability of seeds to tolerate desiccation plays an important role in plant regeneration ecology. Globally, the majority of species produce desiccation-tolerant (orthodox) seeds, while comparatively few produce desiccation- sensitive (recal[...]
Article
David G. Jenkins, Auteur ;
Simon Pierce, Auteur
1. Allometric scaling of net primary production (NPP) with plant biomass (B) is important to ecological carbon dynamics and energetics. Metabolic theory predicts a nonlinear power law for NPP scaling, based on fractal vascular systems, resulting[...]
Article
Helen M. Alexander, Auteur ;
Emily Bruns, Auteur ;
Hayley Schebor, Auteur ;
Carolyn M. Malmstrom, Auteur
1. To understand the eco-evolutionary significance of plant viruses in nature, we must (i) quantify the effects of infection on plant fitness and (ii) recognize that native plants are increasingly exposed to crop-associated viruses. Studies of p[...]
Article
Nerea Abrego, Auteur ;
Anna Norberg, Auteur ;
Otso Ovaskainen, Auteur
1. The identification of traits that influence the responses of the species to environmental variation provides a mechanistic perspective on the assembly processes of ecological communities. While much research linking functional ecology with as[...]
Article
Mohammadhossein Ravanbakhsh, Auteur ;
Rashmi Sasidharan, Auteur ;
Laurentius A. C. J. Voesenek, Auteur ;
George A. Kowalchuk, Auteur ;
Alexandre Jousset, Auteur
1. Flooding events are predicted to increase over the coming decades, calling for a better understanding of plant responses to submergence. Specific root-associated microbes alter plant hormonal balance, affecting plant growth and stress toleran[...]
Article
Marcel E. Dorken, Auteur ;
Robert P. Freckleton, Auteur ;
John R. Pannell, Auteur
1. Plant demography is known to depend on both spatial dynamics and life history, but how these two factors interact is poorly understood. We conducted a longitudinal study of the wind-pollinated annual plant Mercurialis annua that varies geogra[...]
Article
Guillermo P. Murphy, Auteur ;
Clarence J. Swanton, Auteur ;
Rene C. Van Acker, Auteur ;
Susan A. Dudley, Auteur
1. Intraspecific competition among crop plants is undesirable. Less competitive crops are predicted to increase yield and decrease the need for added resources. 2. Wild plants demonstrate the ability to recognize kin and potentially help their r[...]
Article
Miren del Rio, Auteur ;
Hans Pretzsch, Auteur ;
Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado, Auteur ;
Evy Ampoorter, Auteur ;
Peter Annighoefer, Auteur ;
Ignacio Barbeito, Auteur ;
Kamil Bielak, Auteur ;
Gediminas Brazaitis, Auteur ;
Lluis Coll, Auteur ;
Lars Drossler, Auteur ;
Marek Fabrika, Auteur ;
David I. Forrester, Auteur ;
Michael Heym, Auteur ;
Vaclav Hurt, Auteur ;
Viktor Kurylyak, Auteur ;
Magnus Lof, Auteur ;
Fabio Lombardi, Auteur ;
Ekaterina Madrickiene, Auteur ;
Bratislav Matovic, Auteur ;
Frits Mohren, Auteur ;
Renzo Motta, Auteur ;
Jan den Ouden, Auteur ;
Maciej Pach, Auteur ;
Quentin Ponette, Auteur ;
Gerhard Schuetze, Auteur ;
Jerzy Skrzyszewski, Auteur ;
Vit Sramek, Auteur ;
Hubert Sterba, Auteur ;
Dejan Stojanovic, Auteur ;
Miroslav Svoboda, Auteur ;
Tzvetan M. Zlatanov, Auteur ;
Andres Bravo-Oviedo, Auteur
1. There is increasing evidence that species diversity enhances the temporal stability (TS) of community productivity in different ecosystems, although its effect at the population and tree levels seems to be negative or neutral. Asynchrony in s[...]
Article
E. M. Wolkovich, Auteur ;
D. O. Burge, Auteur ;
M. A. Walker, Auteur ;
K. A. Nicholas, Auteur
1. Climate change poses an unprecedented challenge to agriculture. While growers have always struggled with year-to-year variation in climate - early rains or unusually hot summers - climate change provides a major directional shift in mean clim[...]
Article
Raphael Aussenac, Auteur ;
Yves Bergeron, Auteur ;
Claudele Ghotsa Mekontchou, Auteur ;
Dominique Gravel, Auteur ;
Kamil Pilch, Auteur ;
Igor Drobyshev, Auteur
1. Differences between species in their response to environmental fluctuations cause asynchronized growth series, suggesting that species diversity may help communities buffer the effects of environmental fluctuations. However, within-species va[...]
Article
Laura A. Burkle, Auteur ;
Casey M. Delphia, Auteur ;
Kevin M. O'Neill, Auteur
1. We briefly review current understanding of wild pollinators and pollination services on farmlands. 2. We consider how concepts in plant ecology - community assembly and functional trait diversity - may be applied to create diverse, wild polli[...]
Article
Dean E. Pearson, Auteur ;
Yvette K. Ortega, Auteur ;
John L. Maron, Auteur
1. Determining how changes in abiotic conditions influence community interactions is a fundamental challenge in ecology. Meeting this challenge is increasingly imperative in the Anthropocene where climate change and exotic species introductions [...]
Article
Ruben Milla, Auteur ;
Pablo García-Palacios, Auteur ;
Silvia Matesanz, Auteur
1. Food security faces challenges that must be addressed from multiple perspectives. Ecology and agronomy contribute to that endeavour, allowing improvement in management practices. However, not only management affects food provision but also cr[...]
Article
David M. Minor, Auteur ;
Richard K. Kobe, Auteur
1. Trees commonly reproduce via masting cycles, which involves synchronized inter-annual variability in fruit crop size. A few individuals in a population will commonly produce much more fruit than others. If these trees produce fruit more frequ[...]
Article
James M. Bullock, Auteur ;
Kiran L. Dhanjal-Adams, Auteur ;
Alice Milne, Auteur ;
Tom H. Oliver, Auteur ;
Lindsay C. Todman, Auteur ;
Andrew P. Whitmore, Auteur ;
Richard F. Pywell, Auteur
1. Focusing on food production, in this paper we define resilience in the food security context as maintaining production of sufficient and nutritious food in the face of chronic and acute environmental perturbations. In agri-food systems, resil[...]
Article
Pablo García-Palacios, Auteur ;
E. Ashley Shaw, Auteur ;
Diana H. Wall, Auteur ;
Stephan Hattenschwiler, Auteur
1. The mass-ratio and niche complementarity mechanisms drive the influence of litter trait diversity on decomposition. However, the implications of these mechanisms remain poorly understood, as few studies have evaluated their importance relativ[...]
Article
Jacob Weiner, Auteur
1. Plant ecological knowledge accumulated over the past 150 years has enormous implications for agriculture, but most of these implications have not been appreciated by ecologists or agronomists. Here, I present several of the most salient examp[...]
Article
Pierre Mariotte, Auteur ;
Alberto Canarini, Auteur ;
Feike A. Dijkstra, Auteur
1. Drought induces changes in the nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) cycle but most plant species have limited flexibility to take up nutrients under such variable or unbalanced N and P availability. Both the degree of flexibility in plant N:P rati[...]
Article
Richard D. Bardgett, Auteur ;
David J. Gibson, Auteur
1. As global climate changes and the world population increases, agriculture faces an enormous challenge to increase food production in an equitable and sustainable manner. Principles and concepts derived directly from plant ecological research [...]
Article
Ruben Milla, Auteur ;
Pablo García-Palacios, Auteur ;
Silvia Matesanz, Auteur
* Food security faces challenges that must be addressed from multiple perspectives. Ecology and agronomy contribute to that endeavour, allowing improvement in management practices. However, not only management affects food provision but also cro[...]
