Species diversity across nutrient gradients: An analysis of resource competition in model ecosystems

Ecosystems

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 296-310

  Herbert, Darrell A ^a   Rastetter, Edward B ^a   Gough, Laura ^b   Shaver, Gaius R ^a  

^a ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeochemical model; Competition; Diversity; Light use; Nutrient use

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; RESOURCE USE;

EID: 2542606141     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-003-0233-x     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Abrams PA. 1988. How should resources be counted? Theor Popul Biol 33:226-42.
2. Abrams PA. 1995. Monotonic or unimodal diversity-productivity gradients: what does competition theory predict? Ecology 76:2019-27.
3. Aerts RE. 1990. Nutrient use efficiency in evergreen and deciduous species from heathlands. Oecologia (Berl) 84:391-7.
4. Aerts RE, Chapin FS III. 2000. The mineral nutrition of wild plants revisited: a re-evaluation of processes and patterns. Adv Ecol Res 30:1-67.
5. Al-Mufti MM, Sydes CL, Furness SB, Grime JP, Band SR. 1977. A quantitative analysis of shoot phenology and dominance in herbaceous vegetation. J Ecol 65:759-91.
6. Bloom AJ, Chapin FS III, Mooney HA. 1985. Resource limitation in plants: an economic analogy. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 16:363-92.
7. Chapin FS III. 1980. The mineral nutrition of wild plants. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 11:233-60.
8. Connell JE, Orias E. 1964. Ecological regulation of species diversity. Am Nat 98:399-414.
9. Connell JE, Slatyer RO. 1977. Mechanisms of succession in natural communities and their role in community stability and organization. Am Nat 111:1119-44.
10. Currie DJ. 1991. Energy and large-scale patterns of animal- and plant-species richness. Am Nat 137:27-49.
11. Darwin C. 1872. The origin of species. 6th London ed. Chicago: Thomas and Thomas.
12. Elton CS. 1958. The ecology of invasions by animals and plants. London: Methuen.
13. Giblin AE, Nadelhoffer KJ, Shaver GR, Laundre JA, McKerrow AJ. 1991. Biogeochemical diversity along a riverside toposequence in arctic Alaska. Ecol Monogr 61:415-35.
14. Gough L, Grace JB, Taylor KL. 1994. The relationship between species richness and community biomass: the importance of environmental variables. Oikos 70:271-9.
15. Grace JB. 1993. The effect of habitat productivity on competition intensity. Trends Ecol Evol 8:229-30.
16. Grace JB. 1999. The factors controlling species density in herbaceous plant communities: an assessment. Perspect Plant Ecol Evol Syst 2:1-28.
17. Grime JP. 1973a. Competition and diversity in herbaceous vegetation: a reply. Nature 244:310-11.
18. Grime JP. 1973b. Control of species diversity in herbaceous vegetation. J Environ Manage 1:151-67.
19. Grime JP. 1979. Plant strategies and vegetation processes. Chichester (UK): John Wiley and Sons.
20. Guo Q, Berry WL. 1998. Species richness and biomass: dissection of the hump-shaped relationships. Ecology 79:2555-9.
21. Hedin LO, Armesto JJ, Johnson AH. 1995. Patterns of nutrient loss from unpolluted, old-growth temperate forests: evaluation of biogeochemical theory. Ecology 76:493-509.
22. Herbert DA, Rastetter EB, Shaver GR, Ågren GI. 1999. Effects of plant growth characteristics on biogeochemistry and community composition in a changing climate. Ecosystems 2:367-82.
23. Huston MA. 1994. Biological diversity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
24. Huston MA, DeAngelis DL. 1994. Competition and coexistence: the effects of resource transport and supply rates. Am Nat 144:954-77.
25. Lesack FW, Melack JM. 1991. The deposition, composition and potential sources of ionic solutes in rain of the central Amazon basin. Water Resour Res 27:2953-77.
26. Lovett GM, Weathers KC, Sobczak W. 2000. Nitrogen saturation and retention in forested watersheds of the Catskill Mountains, NY. Ecol Appl 10:73-84.
27. MacArthur RH. 1955. Fluctuation of animal populations and a measure of community stability. Ecology 36:533-6.
28. Margalef R. 1963. On certain unifying principles in ecology. Am Nat 97:357-74.
29. Magurran A. 1988. Ecological diversity and its measurement. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
30. Marrs RH, Grace JB, Gough L. 1996. On the relationship between plant species diversity and biomass: a comment on a paper by Gough, Grace and Taylor. Oikos 75:323-6.
31. Mittelbach GG, Steiner CF, Scheiner SM, Gross KL, Reynolds HL, Waide RB, Willig MR, Dodson SI, Gough L. 2001. What is the observed relationship between species richness and productivity? Ecology 82:2381-96.
32. Monsi M, Saeki T. 1953. Über den Lichtfaktor in den Pflanzengesellschaften und seine Bedeutung für die Stoffproduktion. Jpn J Bot 14:22-52.
33. Olff H, Huisman J, Van Tooren BF. 1993. Species dynamics and nutrient accumulation during early primary succession in coastal sand dunes J Ecol 81:693-706.
34. Preston FW. 1962. The canonical distribution of commonness and rarity. Ecology 43:185-215.
35. Rastetter EB, Ågren GI. 2002. Changes in individual allometry can lead to species coexistence without niche separation. Ecosystems 5:789-801.
36. 2: a balanced-nutrition, coupled-element-cycles model. Ecol Appl 7:444-60.
37. Rastetter EB, Shaver GR. 1992. A model of multiple-element limitation for acclimating vegetation. Ecology 73:1157-74.
38. Rastetter EB, Vitouse PM, Fiel C, Shave GR, Herbert D, Ågren GI. 2001. Resource optimization and symbiotic N fixation. Ecosystems 4:369-88.
39. Reader RJ, Wilson SD, Belcher JW, Wisheau I, Keddy PA, Tilman D, Morris EC, Grace JB, McGraw JB, Olff H, et al. 1994. Plant competition in relation to neighbor mass: an intercontinental study with Poa pratensis. Ecology 75:1753-60.
40. Rosenzweig ML, Abramski Z. 1993. How are diversity and productivity related? In: Ricklefs RE, Schluter E, Eds. Species diversity in ecological communities: historical and geographical perspectives Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p 52-65.
41. Schoener TW. 1976. Alternatives to Lotka-Volterra competition: models of intermediate complexity. Theor Popul Biol 10:309-33.
42. Sokal RR, Rohlf FJ. 1980. Biometry: the principles and practice of statistics in biological research. 2nd ed. New York: WH Freeman.
43. Tilman D. 1982. Resource competition and community structure. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
44. Tilman D. 1987. Secondary succession and the pattern of plant dominance along experimental nitrogen gradients. Ecol Monogr 57:189-214.
45. Tilman D. 1990. Constraints and tradeoffs: toward a predictive theory of competition and succession. Oikos 58:3-15.
46. Tilman D. 1997. Distinguishing between the effects of species diversity and species composition. Oikos 80:185.
47. Tilman D, Pacala S. 1993. The maintenance of species richness in plant communities. In: Ricklefs RE, Schluter D, Eds. Species diversity in ecological communities: historical and geographical perspectives Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p 13-25.
48. Tilman D, Wedin D. 1991. Plant traits and resource reduction for five grasses growing on a nitrogen gradient. Ecology 72:685-700.
49. Vitousek PM. 1982. Nutrient cycling and nutrient use efficiency. Am Nat 119:553-72.
50. Waide RB, Willig MR, Steiner CF, Mittelbach GG, Gough L, Dodson SI, Juday GP, Parmenter R. 1999. The relationship between primary productivity and species richness. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 30:257-300.
51. Wedin D, Tilman D. 1993. Competition among grasses along a nitrogen gradient: initial conditions and mechanisms of competition. Ecol Monogr 63:199-229.
52. Wilson SD, Tilman D. 1991. Components of plant competition along an experimental gradient of nitrogen availability. Ecology 72:1050-8.
53. Wilson SD, Tilman D. 1995. Competitive responses of eight old-field plant species in four environments. Ecology 76:1169-80.
54. Zobel K, Liira J. 1997. A scale-independent approach to the richness vs biomass relationship in ground-layer plant communities. Oikos 80:325-32.