Overyielding among plant functional groups in a long-term experiment

Ecology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 95-105

  Hooper, David U ^a   Dukes, Jeffrey S ^b,c  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Community composition; Complementarity; Ecosystem functioning; Net primary production; Overyielding; Plant functional types; Resource partitioning; Sampling effect

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 1342269512     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00555.x     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Aarssen, L.W. (1997). High productivity in grassland ecosystems: affected by species diversity or productive species? Oikos, 80, 183-184.
2. Armstrong, J. (1991). Rainfall variation, life form and phenology in California serpentine grassland. PhD Dissertation, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
3. California Department of Water Resources (2003). California Irrigation Management Information System. URL http://www.cimis.water.ca.gov/
4. Cardinale, B.J., Nelson, K. & Palmer, M.A. (2000). Linking species diversity to the functioning of ecosystems: on the importance of environmental context. Oikos, 91, 175-183.
5. Chapin, F.S. III, Vitousek, P.M. & Van Cleve, K. (1986). The nature of nutrient limitation in plant communities. Am. Nat., 127, 48-58.
6. Dukes, J.S. (2001). Productivity and complementarity in grassland microcosms of varying diversity. Oikos, 94, 468-480.
7. Dukes, J.S. (2002). Species composition and diversity affect grassland susceptibility and response to invasion. Ecol. Appl., 12, 602-617.
8. Engelhardt, K.A.M. & Ritchie, M.E. (2001). Effects of macrophyte species richness on wetland ecosystem functioning and services. Nature, 411, 687-689.
9. Engelhardt, K.A.M. & Ritchie, M.E. (2002). The effect of aquatic plant species richness on wetland ecosystem processes. Ecology, 83, 2911-2924.
10. Ewel, J.J. (1986). Designing agroecosystems for the humid tropics. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst., 17, 245-271.
11. Fridley, J.D. (2001). The influence of species diversity on ecosystem productivity: how, where and why? Oikos, 93, 514-526.
12. Fridley, J.D. (2002). Resource availability dominates and alters the relationship between species diversity and ecosystem productivity in experimental plant communities. Oecologia, 132, 271-277.
13. Fridley, J.D. (2003). Diversity effects on production in different light and fertility environments: an experiment with communities of annual plants. J. Ecol., 91, 396-406.
14. Gulmon, S.L., Chiariello, N.R., Mooney, H.A. & Chu, C.C. (1983). Phenology and resource use in three co-occurring grassland annuals. Oecologia (Berlin), 58, 33-42.
15. Haggar, J.P. & Ewel, J.J. (1997). Primary productivity and resource partitioning in model tropical ecosystems. Ecology, 78, 1211-1221.
16. Harper, J.L. (1977). Population Biology of Plants. Academic Press, London.
17. Hector, A., Schmid, B., Beierkuhnlein, C., Caldeira, M.C., Diemer, M., Dimitrakopoulos, P.G. et al. (1999). Plant diversity and productivity experiments in European grasslands. Science, 286, 1123-1127.
18. Hector, A., Bazeley-White, E., Loreau, M., Otway, S. & Schmid, B. (2002). Overyielding in plant communities: testing the sampling effect hypothesis with replicated biodiversity experiments. Ecol. Lett., 5, 502-511.
19. Hobbs, R.J. & Mooney, H.A. (1995). Spatial and temporal variability in California annual grassland: results from a long-term study. J. Vegetation Sci., 6, 43-56.
20. Hooper, D.U. (1998). The role of complementarity and competition in ecosystem responses to variation in plant diversity. Ecology, 79, 704-719.
21. Hooper, D.U. & Vitousek, P.M. (1997). The effects of plant composition and diversity on ecosystem processes. Science, 277, 1302-1305.
22. Hooper, D.U. & Vitousek, P.M. (1998). Effects of plant composition and diversity on nutrient cycling. Ecol. Monogr., 68, 121-149.
23. Huston, M.A. (1997). Hidden treatments in ecological experiments: re-evaluating the ecosystem function of biodiversity. Oecologia, 110, 449-460.
24. Huston, M.A., Aarssen, L.W., Austin, M.P., Cade, B.S., Fridley, J.D., Garnier, E. et al. (2000). No consistent effect of plant diversity on productivity. Science, 289, 1255.
25. Jolliffe, P.A. (1997). Are mixed populations of plant species more productive than pure stands? Oikos, 80, 595-602.
26. Jolliffe, P.A. (2000). The replacement series. J. Ecol., 88, 371-385.
27. Loreau, M. (1998). Separating sampling and other effects in biodiversity experiments. Oikos, 82, 600-602.
28. Loreau, M. (2000). Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: recent theoretical advances. Oikos, 91, 3-17.
29. Loreau, M. & Hector, A. (2001). Partitioning selection and complementarity in biodiversity experiments. Nature, 412, 72-76.
30. Loreau, M., Naeem, S., Inchausti, P., Bengtsson, J., Grime, J.P., Hector, A. et al. (2001). Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: current knowledge and future challenges. Science, 294, 804-808.
31. Loreau, M., Naeem, S. & Inchausti, P. (2002). Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Synthesis and Perspectives. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
32. McKane, R.B., Johnson, L.C., Shaver, G.R., Nadelhoffer, K.J., Rastetter, E.B., Fry, B. et al. (2002). Resource-based niches provide a basis for plant species diversity and dominance in arctic tundra. Nature, 415, 68-71.
33. Mooney, H.A., Hobbs, R.J., Gorham, J. & Williams, K. (1986). Biomass accumulation and resource utilization in co-occurring grassland annuals. Oecologia (Berlin), 70, 555-558.
34. Mouquet, N., Moore, J.L. & Loreau, M. (2002). Plant species richness and community productivity: why the mechanism that promotes coexistence matters. Ecol. Lett., 5, 56-65.
35. Mulder, C.P.H., Jumpponen, A., Högberg, P. & Huss-Danell, K. (2002). How plant diversity and legumes affect nitrogen dynamics in experimental grassland communities. Oecologia, 133, 412-421.
36. Petchey, O.L. (2003). Integrating methods that investigate how complementarity influences ecosystem functioning. Oikos, 101, 323-330.
37. van Ruijven, J. & Berendse, F. (2003). Positive effects of plant species diversity on productivity in the absence of legumes. Ecol. Lett., 6, 170-175.
38. Schmid, B., Joshi, J. & Schläpfer, F. (2002). Empirical evidence for biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships. In: Functional Consequences of Biodiversity: Experimental Progress and Theoretical Extensions (eds Kinzig, A., Tilman, D. & Pacala, S.). Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, pp. 120-150.
39. Simon, R.L. (1994). Kirby Canyon RDF Meteorological Program Annual Summary Report for July 1993-June 1994. Kirby Canyon Recycling and Disposal Facility, San Jose, CA.
40. Sokal, R.R. & Rohlf, F.J. (1995). Biometry, 3rd edn. W.H. Freeman and Co., New York, NY.
41. Špaèková, I. & Lepš, J. (2001). Procedure for separating the selection effect from other effects in diversity-productivity relationships. Ecol. Lett., 4, 585-594.
42. Spehn, E.M., Joshi, J., Schmid, B., Diemer, M. & Körner, C. (2000). Above-ground resource use increases with plant species richness in experimental grassland ecosystems. Funct. Ecol., 14, 326-337.
43. Swift, M.J. & Anderson, J.M. (1993). Biodiversity and ecosystem function in agricultural systems. In: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function (eds Schulze, E.-D. & Mooney, H.A.). Springer-verlag, Berlin, Germany, pp. 15-41.
44. Tilman, D. & Wedin, D. (1991). Plant traits and resource reduction for five grasses growing on a nitrogen gradient. Ecology, 72, 685-700.
45. Tilman, D., Lehman, C.L. & Thomson, K.T. (1997). Plant diversity and ecosystem productivity: theoretical considerations. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA, 94, 1857-1861.
46. Tilman, D., Reich, P.B., Knops, J., Wedin, D., Mielke, T. & Lehman, C. (2001). Diversity and productivity in a long-term grassland experiment. Science, 294, 843-845.
47. Trenbath, B.R. (1974). Biomass productivity of mixtures. Adv. Agron., 26, 177-210.
48. Troumbis, A.Y., Dimitrakopoulos, P.G., Siamantziouras, A.S. & Memtsas, D. (2000). Hidden diversity and productivity patterns in mixed Mediterranean grasslands. Oikos, 90, 549-559.
49. Vandermeer, J.H. (1990). Intercropping. In: Agroecology (eds Carrol, C.R., Vandermeer, J.H. & Rosset, P.M.). McGraw and Hill, New York, NY, pp. 481-516.
50. Wardle, D.A. (1999). Is "sampling effect" a problem for experiments investigating biodiversity - ecosystem function relationships? Oikos, 87, 403-407.