Stress tolerance and competitive-response ability determine the outcome of biotic interactions

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1611-1618

  Liancourt, Pierre ^a   Callaway, Ragan M ^b   Michalet, Richard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c UMR 1202 BIOGECO   (France)

Author keywords

Arrhenatherum elatius; Brachypodium rupestre; Bromus erectus; Competition; Competition interactions and stress; Competitive response; Distributional optima; Facilitation; Field experiment; Grassland; Stress tolerance; Water relations

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); COMPETITIVE ABILITY; FACILITATION; GRASSLAND; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; STRESS RESISTANCE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

ARRHENATHERUM ELATIUS; BRACHYPODIUM RUPESTRE; BROMUS ERECTUS;

EID: 20444394022     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-1398     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Bertness, M. D., and R. M. Callaway. 1994. Positive interactions in communities. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 9:191-193.
2. Bertness, M. D., L. Gough, and S. W. Shumway. 1992. Salt tolerances and the distribution of fugitive salt marsh plants. Ecology 73:1842-1851.
3. Bertness, M. D., and S. D. Hacker. 1994. Physical stress and positive associations among marsh plants. American Naturalist 144:363-372.
4. Brooker, R. W., and T. V. Callaghan. 1998. The balance between positive and negative plant interactions and its relationship to environmental gradients: a model. Oikos 81: 196-207.
5. Bruno, J. F., J. J. Stachowicz, and M. D. Bertness. 2003. Inclusion of facilitation into ecological theory. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18:119-125.
6. Callaway, R. M. 1995. Positive interactions among plants. Botanical Review 61:306-349.
7. Callaway, R. M. 1998. Are positive interactions species-specific? Oikos 82:202-207.
8. Callaway, R. M., R. W. Brooker, P. Choler, Z. Kikvidze, C. J. Lortie, R. Michalet, L. Paolini, F. I. Pugnaire, B. Newingham, E. T. Aschehoug, C. Armas, D. Kikidze., and B. J. Cook. 2002. Positive interactions among alpine plants increase with stress. Nature 417:844-848.
9. Callaway, R. M., and L. R. Walker. 1997. Competition and facilitation: a synthetic approach to interactions in plant communities. Ecology 78:1958-1965.
10. Castro, J., R. Zamora, J. A. Hodar, and J. M. Gomez. 2002. Use of shrubs as nurse plants: a new technique for reforestation in Mediterranean mountains. Restoration Ecology 10:297-305.
11. Choler, P., R. Michalet, and R. M. Callaway. 2001. Competition and facilitation on gradients in alpine communities. Ecology 82:3295-3308.
12. Corcket, E., P. Liancourt, R. M. Callaway, and R. Michalet. 2003. The relative importance of competition for two dominant grass species, as affected by environmental manipulations in the field. Ecoscience 10:186-194.
13. Dormann, C. F., and R. W. Brooker. 2002. Facilitation and competition in the High Arctic: the importance of experimental approach. Acta Oecologica 23:297-301.
14. Franks, S. J. 2003. Competitive and facilitative interactions within and between two species of coastal dune perennials. Canadian Journal of Botany 81:330-337.
15. Goldberg, D., and K. Landa. 1991. Competitive effect and response: hierarchies and correlated traits in the early stages of competition. Journal of Ecology 79:1013-1030.
16. Goldberg, D. E., and A. Novoplansky. 1997. On the relative importance of competition in unproductive environments. Journal of Ecology 85:409-418.
17. Goldberg, D. E., T. Rajaniemi, J. Gurevitch, and A. Stewart-Oaten. 1999. Empirical approaches to quantifying interaction intensity: competition and facilitation along productivity gradients. Ecology 80:1118-1131.
18. Goldberg, D. E., R. Turkington, L. Olsvig-Whittaker, and A. R. Dyer. 2001. Density dependence in an annual plant community: variation among life history stages. Ecological Monographs 71:423-446.
19. Greenlee, J. T., and R. M. Callaway. 1996. Abiotic stress and the relative importance of interference and facilitation in montane bunchgrass communities in western Montana. American Naturalist 148:386-396.
20. Greiner La Peyre, M. K., E. Hahn, I. A. Mendelssohn, and J. B. Grace. 2001. The importance of competition in regulating plant species abundance along a salinity gradient. Ecology 82:62-69.
21. Grime, J. P. 1979. Plant strategies and vegetation processes. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, UK.
22. Grime, J. P., and B. D. Campbell. 1991. Growth rate, habitat productivity, and plant strategy as predictors of stress response. Pages 143-159 in H. A. Mooney, W. E. Winner, and E. J. Pell, editors. Responses of plants to multiple stresses. Academic Press, New York, New York, USA.
23. Grime, J. P., and A. V. Curtis. 1976. The interaction of drought and mineral nutrient stress in calcareous grassland. Journal of Ecology 64:975-988.
24. Grime, J. P., J. G. Hodgson, and R. Hunt. 1996. Comparative plant ecology: a functional approach to common British species. Unwin Hyman, London, UK.
25. Hacker, S. D., and M. D. Bertness. 1999. Experimental evidence for factors maintaining plant species diversity in a New England salt marsh. Ecology 80:2064-2073.
26. Hacker, S. D., and S. D. Gaines. 1997. Some implications of direct positive interactions for community species diversity. Ecology 78:1990-2003.
27. Hastwell, G. T., and J. M. Facelli. 2003. Differing effects of shade-induced facilitation on growth and survival during the establishment of a chenopod shrub. Journal of Ecology 91:941-950.
28. Hedges, L. V., J. Gurevitch, and P. S. Curtis. 1999. The meta-analysis of response ratios in experimental ecology. Ecology 80:1150-1156.
29. Hillier, S. H. 1990. Gaps, seed banks, and plant species diversity in calcareous grasslands. Pages 57-66 in D. W. H. Walton and D. A. Wells, editors. Calcareous grasslands: ecology and management. Bluntisham Books, Huntingdon, UK.
30. Holmgren, M. 2000. Combined effects of shade and drought on tulip poplar seedlings: trade-off in tolerance or facilitation? Oikos 90:67-78.
31. Holmgren, M., M. Scheffer, and M. A. Huston. 1997. The interplay of facilitation and competition in plant communities. Ecology 78:1966-1975.
32. Holzapfel, C., and B. E. Mahall. 1999. Bi-directional facilitation and interference between shrubs and annuals in the Mojave desert. Ecology 80:1747-1761.
33. Hulbert, S. H. 1984. Pseudoreplication and the design of ecological field experiments. Ecological Monographs 54: 187-211.
34. Kadmon, R. 1995. Plant competition along soil moisture gradients: a field experiment with the desert annual Stipa capensis. Journal of Ecology 83:253-262.
35. Körner, C. 2003. Limitation and stress - always or never? Journal of Vegetation Science 14:141-143.
36. Lortie, C. J., R. W. Brooker, Z. Kikvidze, and R. M. Callaway. 2004. The value of stress and limitation in an imperfect world: a reply to Körner. Journal of Vegetation Science 15: 577-580.
37. Maestre, F. T., S. Bautista, and J. Cortina. 2003. Positive, negative, and net effects in grass-shrub interactions in Mediterranean semiarid grasslands. Ecology 84:3186-3197.
38. Maestre, F. T., S. Bautista, J. Cortina, and J. Bellot. 2001. Potential for using facilitation by grasses to establish shrubs on a semiarid degraded steppe. Ecological Applications 11: 1641-1655.
39. Maestre, F. T., and J. Cortina. 2004. Do positive interactions increase with abiotic stress? A test from a semi-arid steppe. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 271(Supplement):S331-S333.
40. Méteo-France. 2001, 2002. Bulletin climatologique annuel de l'Isève. Saint-Martin d'Hères, Grenoble, France.
41. Mulder, C. P. H., D. D. Uliassi, and D. F. Doak. 2001. Physical stress and diversity-productivity relationships: the role of positive interactions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 98:6704-6708.
42. Peltzer, D. A., and M. Köchy. 2001. Competitive effects of grasses and woody plants in mixed-grass prairie. Journal of Ecology 89:519-527.
43. Pennings, S. C., E. R. Seling, L. T. Houser, and M. D. Bertness. 2003. Geographic variation in positive and negative interactions among salt marsh plants. Ecology 84:1527-1538.
44. Pugnaire, F. I., and M. Luque. 2001. Changes in plant interactions along a gradient of environmental stress. Oikos 93: 42-49.
45. Royer, J. M. 1987. Les pelouses des Festuco-Brometea. D'un exemple régional à une vision eurosibérienne: étude phytosociologique et phytogéographique. Dissertation. Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France.
46. Ryser, P., and H. Lambers. 1995. Root and leaf attributes accounting for the performance of fast- and slow-growing grasses at different nutrient supply. Plant and Soil 170:251-265.
47. Sans, X. F., J. Escarré, J. Lepart, and R Hopkins. 2002. Positive vs. negative interactions in Picris hieracioides L., a mid-successional species of Mediterranean secondary succession. Plant Ecology 162:109-122.
48. SAS Institute. 2002. JMP 5.0.1. SAS Institute, Cary, North Carolina, USA.
49. Schupp, E. W. 1995. Seed-seedling conflicts, habitat choice, and patterns of plant recruitment. American Journal of Botany 82:399-409.
50. Suding, K. N., D. Goldberg, and K. M. Hartman. 2003. Relationships among species traits: separating levels of response and identifying linkages to abundance. Ecology 84: 1-16.
51. Tewksbury, J. J., and J. D. Loyd. 2001. Positive interactions under nurse-plants: spatial scale, stress gradients and benefactor size. Oecologia 127:425-434.
52. Tielbörger, K., and R. Kadmon. 2000. Temporal environmental variation tips the balance between facilitation and interference in desert plants. Ecology 81:1544-1553.
53. Walker, L. R., and F. S. Chapin, III. 1986. Physiological controls over seedling growth in primary succession on an Alaskan floodplain. Ecology 67:1508-1523.
54. Weiher, E. 2004. Why should we constrain stress and limitation? Why conceptual terms deserve broad definitions. Journal of Vegetation Science 15:569-571.
55. Wilson, S. D., and P. A. Keddy. 1986. Measuring diffuse competition along an environmental gradient: results from a shoreline plant community. American Naturalist 127: 862-869.