Fine-scale species interactions of clonal plants in a mountain grassland: A removal experiment

Oikos

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 299-310

  Herben, Tomáš ^a   Krahulec, František ^a   Hadincová, Věra ^a   Pecháčková, Sylvie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONAL PLANT; GRASSLAND; MOUNTAIN VEGETATION;

ANTHOXANTHUM ALPINUM; DESCHAMPSIA FLEXUOSA; FESTUCA; NARDUS STRICTA; POACEAE;

EID: 0030620803     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546297     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Aarssen, L. W. 1985. Interpretation of the evolutionary consequences of competition in plants: an experimental approach. - Oikos 45: 99-109.
2. _ 1988. "Pecking order" of four plant species from pastures of different ages. - Oikos 51: 3-12.
3. _ and Turkington R. 1985. Competitive relations among species from pastures of different ages. - Can. J. Bot. 63: 2319-2325.
4. _ and Epp G. A. 1990. Neighbor manipulations in natural vegetation: a review. - J. Veg. Sci. 1: 13-30.
5. Cain, M. L., Pacala, S. W., Silander, J. A. and Fortin, M. J. 1995. Neighborhood models of clonal growth in the white clover Trifolium repens. - Am. Natur. 145: 888-917.
6. Callaway, R. M. 1995. Positive interactions among plants. -Bot. Rev. 61: 306-349.
7. de Kroon, H., Hara, T. and Kwant, R. 1992. Size hierarchies of shoots and clones in clonal herb monocultures: do clonal and nonclonal plants compete differently? - Oikos 63: 410-419.
8. Dixon W. J., Brown, A. B., Engelman, L. and Vennrich, R. I. 1992. BMDP statistical software manual. - Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, CA.
9. Fowler, N. 1981. Competition and coexistence in a North Carolina grassland. - J. Ecol. 69: 843-854.
10. _ 1990. Disorderliness in plant communities: comparisons, causes, and consequences. - In: Grace, J. B. and Tilman, D. (eds), Perspectives on plant competition. Academic Press, San Diego, CA, pp. 291-306.
11. Gaudet, C. L. and Keddy, P. A. 1995. Competitive performance and species distribution in shoreline plant communities: a comparative approach. - Ecology 76: 280-291.
12. Glenn, S. M. and Collins, S. L. 1993. Experimental analysis of patch dynamics in tall grass prairie plant communities. - J. Veg. Sci. 4: 157-162.
13. Goldberg, D. E. and Werner, P. A. 1983. Equivalence of competitors in plant communities: a null hypothesis and a field experimental approach. - Am. J. Bot. 70: 1098-1104.
14. _ and Landa, K. 1991. Competitive effect and response: hierarchies and correlated traits in the early stages of competition. - J. Ecol. 79: 1013-1030.
15. _ and Barton, A. M. 1992. Patterns and consequences of interspecific competition in natural communities: a review of field experiments with plants. - Am. Nat. 139: 771-801.
16. Grace, J. B. and Tilman, D. (eds) 1990. Perspectives on plant competition. - Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
17. _ , Guntenspergen, G. R. and Keough, J. 1993. The examination of competition matrix for intransitivity and intransitive loops. - Oikos 68: 91-98.
18. Grime, J. P. 1973. Competitive exclusion in herbaceous vegetation. - Nature 242: 344-347.
19. Hara, T. 1993. Effects of variation in individual growth on plant species coexistence. - J. Veg. Sci. 4: 409-416.
20. _ 1994. Growth and competition in clonal plants - persistence of shoot populations and species diversity. - Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 29: 181-201.
21. _ and Wyszomirski, T. 1994. Competitive asymmetry reduces spatial effects on size structure dynamics in plant populations. - Ann. Bot. 73: 285-297.
22. Hartnett, D. C. 1993. Regulation of clonal growth and dynamics of Panicum virgatum (Poaceae) in tallgrass prairie: effects of neighbor removal and nutrient addition. - Am. J. Bot. 80: 1114-1120.
23. Herben, T., Krahulec, F., Hadincová, V. and Kovářová, M. 1990. Small scale dynamics in a mountain grassland. - In: Krahulec, F., Agnew, A. B. Q., Agnew, S. and Willems, J. H. (eds): Spatial processes in plant communities, SPB, The Hague, pp. 173-184.
24. _ , Krahulec, F., Hadincová, V. and Skálová H. 1993. Fine scale variability as a mechanism for the large scale stability in grassland communities. - J. Veg. Sci. 4: 163-170.
25. _ , Krahulec, F., Hadincová, V. and Pecháčková S. 1995. Climatic variability and grassland community composition over 10 years: separating effects on module biomass and number of modules. - Funct. Ecol. 9: 767-773.
26. Hutchings, M. J. and Mogie, M. 1990. The spatial structure of clonal plants: control and consequences. - In: van Groenendael, J., de Kroon, H. (eds), Clonal growth in plants: regulation and function. SPB, The Hague, pp. 57-78.
27. Kadmon, R. 1995. Plant competition along soil moisture gradient - a field experiment with the clonal annual Stipa capensis. - J. Ecol. 83: 253-262.
28. Karlsson, R. H. and Jackson, J. B. C. 1981. Competitive networks and community structure: a simulation study. Ecology 62: 670-678.
29. Keddy, P. A. 1990. Competitive hierarchies and centrifugal organization of plant communities. - In: Grace, J. B. and Tilman, D. (eds). Perspectives on plant competition. Academic Press, San Diego, CA, pp. 265-290.
30. _ and Shipley, B. 1989. Competitive hierarchies in herbaceous plant communities. - Oikos 54: 234-241.
31. Klimešová, J. 1989. Odnožování u smilky tuhé (Nardus stricta) [Tillering in Matgrass (Nardus stricta)]. - Zprávy Čs. Bot. Společ. 24: 141-147.
32. Krahulec, F. 1990. Nardo-Agrostion communities in the Krkonoše and West Carpathians Mts. - Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 25: 337-347.
33. Law, R., McLellan, A. and Mahdi, A.-K. S. 1993. Spatiotemporal processes in a calcareous grassland. - Plant Species Biol. 8: 175-194.
34. Milchunas, D. G., Lauenroth, W. K. and Chapman, P. L. 1992. Plant competition, abiotic, longterm and short term effects of large herbivores on demography of opportunistic species in a semiarid grassland. - Oecologia 92: 520-531.
35. Mitchley, J. and Grubb, P. J. 1986. Control of relative abundance of perennials in chalk grassland in southern England. I. Constancy of rank order and results of pot-and field-experiments on the role of interference. - J. Ecol. 74: 1139-1166.
36. Palmer, M. W. and van der Maarel, E. 1995. Variance in species richness, species association and niche limitation. -Oikos 73: 203-213.
37. Pielou, E. C. 1977. Mathematical ecology. - Wiley, Chichester.
38. Potvin, C. and Roff, D. A. 1993. Distribution free and robust statistical methods: viable alternatives to parametric statistics? - Ecology 74: 1617-1628.
39. Reader, R. J. and Best, B. J. 1989. Variation in competition along an environmental gradient: Hieracium floribundum in an abandoned pasture. - J. Ecol. 77: 673-684.
40. Silander, J. A. and Pacala, S. W. 1990. The application of plant population dynamics models to understanding plant competition. - In: Grace, J. B. and Tilman, D. (eds), Perspectives on plant competition. Academic Press, San Diego, CA, pp. 67-92.
41. Silvertown, J., Holtier, S., Johnson, J. and Dale, P. 1992. Cellular automaton models of interspecific competition for space: the effect of pattern on process. - J. Ecol. 80: 527-534.
42. _ , Lines, C. E. M. and Dale, M. P. 1994. Spatial competition between grasses - rates of mutual invasion between four species and the interaction with grazing. - J. Ecol. 82: 31-38.
43. Sykes, M. T., van der Maarel, E., Peet, R. K. and Willems, J. H. 1994. High species mobility in species rich plant communities: an intercontinental comparison. - Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 29: 439-448.
44. Thórhalsdóttir, T. E. 1990a. The dynamics of a grassland community: a simultaneous investigation of spatial and temporal heterogeneity at various scales. - J. Ecol. 78: 884-908.
45. _ 1990b. The dynamics of five grasses and white clover in a simulated grassland sward. - J. Ecol. 78: 909-923.
46. Tilman, D. and Pacala, S. W. 1993. The maintenance of the species richness in plant communities. - In: Ricklefs, R. E. and Schluter, D. (eds), Species diversity in ecological communities, Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, pp. 13-25.
47. Turkington, R. 1994. Effect of propagule source on competitive ability of pasture grasses: spatial dynamics of six grasses in simulated swards. - Can. J. Bot. 72: 111-121.
48. van der Maarel, E. and Sykes, M. T. 1993. Small scale plant species turnover in a limestone grassland: the carousel model and some comments on the niche concept. - J. Veg. Sci. 4: 179-188.
49. von Ende, C. N. 1993. Repeated-measures analysis: growth and other time-dependent measures. - In: Scheiner, S. M. and Gurevitch, J. (eds), Design and analysis of ecological experiments. Chapman and Hall, London, pp. 113-138.
50. Watkins, A. J. and Wilson, J. B. 1992. Fine scale community structure of the lawns. - J. Ecol. 80: 15-21.
51. Wisheu, I. C. and Keddy, P. A. 1992. Competition and centrifugal organization of plant communities: theory and tests. - J. Veg. Sci. 3: 147-156.
52. Wooton, J. T. 1993. Indirect effects and the habitat use in an intertidal community: interaction chains and interaction modifications. - Am. Nat. 141: 71-89.