Effects of plant growth characteristics on biogeochemistry and community composition in a changing climate

Ecosystems

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 367-382

  Herbert, Darrell A ^a   Rastetter, Edward B ^a   Shaver, Gaius R ^a   Ågren, Göran I ^b  

^a ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biogeochemical model; Carbon nitrogen interactions; Climate change; CO2; Multiple element limitation (MEL); Nutrient use efficiency; Plant competition; Relative growth rate; Temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032845268     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100219900086     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Aerts R. 1996. Nutrient resorption from senescing leaves of perennials: are there general patterns? J Ecol 84:597-608.
2. Ågren GI, McMurtrie RE, Parton WJ, Pastor J, Shugart HH. 1992. State-of-the-art models of production-decomosition linkages in conifer-grassland ecosystems. Ecol Appl 1:118-38.
3. 2 concentrations. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 12:167-96.
4. Belsky AJ. 1994. Influence of trees on savanna productivity: tests of shade, nutrients, and tree-grass competition. Ecology 75:367-97.
5. Berendse F, Aerts R. 1987. Nitrogen-use efficiency: a biologically meaningful definition? Funct Ecol 1:293-96.
6. Bloom AJ, Chapin FS III, Mooney HA. 1985. Resource limitation in plants, an economic analogy. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 16:363-92.
7. Callaway RM, Nadkarni NM, Mahall BE. 1991. Facilitation and interferences of Quercus douglasii on understory productivity in Central California. Ecology 72:1484-99.
8. Chapin FS III. 1980. The mineral nutrition of wild plants. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 11:233-60.
9. Chapin FS III. 1992. Functional role of growth forms in ecosystems and global processes. In: Ehleringer JR, Field CB, editors. Scaling physiological processes leaf to globe. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. 388 p.
10. Chapin FS III, Shaver G. 1985. Individualistic growth response of tundra plant species to environmental manipulations in the field. Ecology 66:564-76.
11. Chapin FS III, Shaver GR. 1996. Physiological and growth responses of arctic plants to a field experiment simulating climatic change. Ecology 77:822-40.
12. Chapin FS III, Bloom AJ, Field CB, Waring RH. 1987. Plant responses to multiple environmental factors. Bioscience 37:49-57.
13. Chapin FS III, Shaver GR, Giblin AJ, Nadelhoffer KJ, Laundre JA. 1995. Responses of arctic tundra to experimental and observed changes in climate. Ecology 76:694-711.
14. Ericsson T, Ingestad T. 1988. Nutrition and growth of birch seedlings at varied relative phosphorus rates. Physiol Plant 72:227-35.
15. Field C, Chapin FS III, Matson PA, Mooney HA. 1992. Responses of terrestrial ecosystems to the changing atmosphere: a resource-based approach. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 23:201-36.
16. Field CB, Randerson JT, Malmström CM. 1995. Global net primary production: combining ecology and remote sensing. Remote Sens Environ 51:74-88.
17. Giblin AE, Nadelhoffer KJ, Shaver GR, Laundre JA, McKerrow AJ. 1991. Biogeochemical diversity along a riverside toposquence in arctic Alaska. Ecological Monographs 61:415-35.
18. Hirose T. 1975. Relations between turnover rate, resource utility and structure of some plant populations: a study in the matter of budgets. J Faculty Sci University of Tokyo, III 11:355-407.
19. Hobbie SE. 1996. Temperature and plant species control over litter decomposition in Alaskan tundra. Ecol Monogr 66:503-22.
20. Hooper DU, Vitousek PM. 1997. The effects of plant composition and diversity on ecosystem processes. Science 277:1302-5.
21. Ingestad T, McDonald AJS. 1989. Interactions between nitrogen and photon flux density in birch seedlings at steady-state nutrition. Physiol Plant 11:1-11.
22. Jackson RB, Mooney HA, Schulze E-D. 1997. A global budget for fine root biomass, surface area, and nutrient contents. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 94:7362-6.
23. Killingbeck KT. 1996. Nutrients in senesced leaves: keys to the search for potential resorption and resorption proficiency. Ecology 77:1716-27.
24. Maun MA. 1994. Adaptations enhancing survival and establishment of seedlings on a coastal dune system. Vegetatio 111:59-70.
25. McKane RB, Rastetter EB, Melillo JM, Shaver GR, Hopkinson CS, Fernandes DN. 1995. Effects of global change on carbon storage in tropical forests of South America. Global Biogeochem Cycles 9:329-50.
26. McKane RB, Rastetter EB, Shaver GR, Nadelhoffer KJ, Giblin AE, Laundre JA, Chapin FS III. 1997. Climatic effects on tundra carbon storage inferred from experimental data and a model. Ecology 78:1170-87.
27. 2 concentrations and temperatures. Plant Cell Environ 16:1-13.
28. Miller PC, Managan R, Kummerow K. 1982. Vertical distribution of organic matter in eight vegetation types near Eagle Summit Alaska. Holarctic Ecol 5:117-24.
29. Monsi M, Saeki T. 1953. Über den lichtfaktor in den pflanzengesellschaften und seine bedeutung für die Stoffproduktion. Jpn J Bot 14:22-52.
30. Mooney HA. 1972. The carbon balance of plants. Ann Rev Ecol Syst 3:315-46.
31. Muller CH. 1953. The association of desert annuals with shrubs. Am J Bot 40:53-60.
32. Rastetter EB, Shaver GR. 1992. A model of multiple-element limitation for acclimating vegetation. Ecology 73:1157-74.
33. 2 and temperature. Water Air Soil Pollut 64:327-44.
34. Rastetter EB, Ågren GI, Shaver GR. 1997. Responses of N-limited ecosystems to increased CO-2: a balanced-nutrition, coupled-element-cycles model. Ecol Appl 7:444-60.
35. Raynal DJ, Bazzaz FA. 1975. Interference of winter annuals with ambrosia artemisiifolia in early successional fields. Ecology 56:35-49.
36. Schimel DS. 1990. Biogeochemical feedbacks in the earth system. In: Leggett J, editor. Global warming: the greenhouse report. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p 68-82.
37. Shaver GR, Chapin FS III. 1991. Production: biomass relationships and element cycling in contrasting Arctic vegetation types. Ecological Monographs 61:1-31.
38. Shaver G, Chapin FS III. I960. Response to fertilization by various plant growth forms in an Alaskan tundra: nutrient accumulation and growth. Ecology 61:662-675.
39. Shaver GR, Kummerow J. 1992. Phenology, resource allocation and growth of arctic vascular plants. In: Chapin III FS, Jeffries RL, Reynolds JF, Shaver GR, Svoboda J, editors. Arctic ecosystems in a changing climate: an ecophysiological perspective. San Diego: Academic Press.
40. Shaver GR, Billings WD, Chapin FS III, Giblin AE, Nadelhoffer KJ, Oechel WC, Rastetter EB. 1992. Global change and the carbon balance of arctic ecosystems. BioScience 42:433-41.
41. 2 flux in wet sedge tundras: responses to nutrients, temperature and light. Ecol Monogr 68:75-97.
42. Tateno M, Chapin FS III 1997. The logic of carbon and nitrogen interactions in terrestrial ecosystems. Am Nat 149:723-44.
43. Taylor BR, Parkinson D, Parsons WFJ. 1989. Nitrogen and lignin content as predictors of litter decay: a microcosm test. Ecology 70:97-104.
44. Tilman D. 1987. Secondary succession and the pattern of plant dominance along experimental nitrogen gradients. Ecol Monogr 57:189-214.
45. Vitousek PM. 1982. Nutrient cycling and nutrient use efficiency. American Naturalist 119:553-72.
46. Vitousek PM. 1984. Litterfall, nutrient cycling, and nutrient limitation in tropical forests. Ecology 65:285-98.
47. Vitousek PM. 1986. Biological invasions and ecosystem properties: can species make a difference? In: Mooney HA, Drake JA, editors. Ecology of biological invasions of North America and Hawaii. Volume 58, Ecological studies, analysis and synthesis. New York: Springer-Verlag.
48. Vitousek PM, Walker LR. 1989. Biological invasions by Myrica faya in Hawaii: plant demography, nitrogen fixation, ecosystem effects. Ecol Monogr 59:247-65.
49. Vitousek PM, Walker LR, Whiteaker LD, Mueller-Dombois D, Matson PA. 1987. Biological invasion of Myrica faya alters ecosystem development in Hawaii. Science 238:802-4.
50. Wikström F, Ericsson T. 1995. Allocation of mass in trees under nitrogen and magnesium limitation. Tree Physiol 15:339-44.
51. Williams, M, Yanai RD. 1996. Multi-dimensional sensitivity analysis and ecological implications of a nutrient uptake model. Plant Soil 180:311-24.