Root dynamics and spatial pattern in prairie and forest

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1199-1203

  Pärtel, Meelis ^a,b   Wilson, Scott D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Grasslands; Great Plains, Canada; Root death; Root production; Soil patchiness; Tree invasion

Indexed keywords

FINE ROOT; FOREST; GRASSLAND; MORTALITY; ROOT SYSTEM; SOIL PROPERTY;

CANADA; GREAT PLAINS;

EID: 0013043679     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[1199:RDASPI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Archibold, O. W., and M. R. Wilson. 1980. The natural vegetation of Saskatchewan prior to agricultural settlement. Canadian Journal of Botany 58:2031-2042.
2. Brown, J. R., and S. Archer. 1999. Shrub invasion of grassland: recruitment is continuous and not regulated by herbaceous biomass or density. Ecology 80:2385-2396.
3. Eissenstat, D. M., C. E. Wells, R. D. Yanai, and J. L. Whitbeck. 2000. Building roots in a changing environment: implications for root longevity. New Phytologist 147:33-42.
4. Eissenstat, D. M., and R. D. Yanai. 1997. The ecology of root lifespan. Advances in Ecological Research 27:1-60.
5. Environment Canada. 1993. Canadian climate normals. Environment Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
6. Farley, R. A., and A. H. Fitter. 1999. Temporal and spatial variation in soil resources in a deciduous woodland. Journal of Ecology 87:688-696.
7. Gill, R. A., and R. B. Jackson. 2000. Global patterns of root turnover for terrestrial ecosystems. New Phytologist 147:13-31.
8. Grime, J. P. 1994. The role of plasticity in exploiting environmental heterogeneity. Pages 1-19 in M. M. Caldwell and R. W. Pearcy, editors. Exploitation of environmental heterogeneity by plants. Ecophysiological processes above-and belowground. Academic Press, San Diego, California, USA.
9. Gross, K. L., K. S. Pregitzer, and A. J. Burton. 1995. Spatial variation in nitrogen availability in three successionai plant communities. Journal of Ecology 83:357-367.
10. Hendrick, R. L., and K. S. Pregitzer. 1992. The demography of fine roots in a northern hardwood forest. Ecology. 73:1094-1104.
11. Hendrick, R. L., and K. S. Pregitzer. 1993. Patterns of fine root mortality in two sugar maple forests. Nature 361:59-61.
12. Jackson, R. B., H. A. Mooney, and E.-D. Schulze. 1997. A global budget for fine root biomass, surface area, and nutrient contents. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 94:7362-7366.
13. Kleb, H. R., and S. D. Wilson. 1997. Vegetation effects on soil resource heterogeneity in prairie and forest. American Naturalist 150:283-298.
14. Kleb, H. R., and S. D. Wilson. 1999. Scale of heterogeneity in prairie and forest. Canadian Journal of Botany 77:370-376.
15. Köchy, M., and S. D. Wilson. 2001. Nitrogen deposition and forest expansion in the northern Great Plains. Journal of Ecology 89:807-817.
16. Legendre, P., and L. Legendre. 1998. Numerical ecology. Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
17. Norby, R. J., and R. B. Jackson. 2000. Root dynamics and global change: seeking an ecosystem perspective. New Phytologist 147:3-12.
18. Robertson, G. P., and K. L. Gross. 1994. Assessing the heterogeneity of belowground resources: quantifying pattern and scale. Pages 123-253 in M. M. Caldwell and R. W. Pearcy, editors. Exploitation of environmental heterogeneity by plants. Ecophysiological processes above- and belowground. Academic Press, San Diego, California, USA.
19. Schlesinger, W. H., J. A. Raikes, A. E. Hartley, and A. F. Cross. 1996. On the spatial pattern of soil nutrients in desert ecosystems. Ecology 77:364-374.
20. Schlesinger, W. H., J. F. Reynolds, G. L. Cunningham, L. F. Huenneke, W. M. Jarrell, R. A. Virginia, and W. G. Whitford. 1990. Biological feedbacks in global desertification. Science 247:1043-1048.
21. Van Auken, O. W. 2000. Shrub invasions of North American semiarid grasslands. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 31:197-215.
22. Wilson, S. D. 1993a. Belowground competition in forest and prairie. Oikos 68:146-150.
23. Wilson, S. D. 1993b. Competition and resource availability in heath and grassland in the Snowy Mountains of Australia. Journal of Ecology 81:445-451.
24. Wilson, S. D. 1998. Competition between grasses and woody plants. Pages 231-254 in G. P. Cheplick, editor. Population biology of grasses. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
25. Wilson, S. D., and H. R. Kleb. 1996. The influence of prairie and forest vegetation on soil moisture and available nitrogen. The American Midland Naturalist 136:222-231.