The invasibility of marine algal assemblages: Role of functional diversity and identity

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2851-2861

  Arenas, Francisco ^a,b   Sánchez, Iñigo ^c   Hawkins, Stephen J ^a,d   Jenkins, Stuart R ^a,e  

^a THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^e BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Algal assemblages; Biodiversity; Fucus serratus; Functional diversity; Intertidal macroalgal communities; Invasibility

Indexed keywords

ALGA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELD METHOD; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; INVASIBILITY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; RESEARCH WORK; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; ROCKY SHORE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGY; BIOMASS; BROWN ALGA; ECOSYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; RED ALGA; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGAE, BROWN; ALGAE, RED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; LINEAR MODELS; MARINE BIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY;

ALGAE; FUCUS; FUCUS SERRATUS;

EID: 33845458607     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[2851:TIOMAA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Airoldi, L. 2000. Effects of disturbance, life histories, and overgrowth on coexistence of algal crust and turfs. Ecology 81:798-814.
2. Allison, G. W. 1999. The implications of experimental design for biodiversity manipulations. American Naturalist 153:26-45.
3. Archambault, P., and E. Bourget. 1996. Scales of coastal heterogeneity and benthic intertidal species richness, diversity and abundance. Marine Ecology Progress Series 136:111-121.
4. Arrontes, J. 2002. Mechanisms of range expansion in the intertidal brown alga Fucus serratus in northern Spain. Marine Biology 141:1059-1067.
5. Benedetti-Cecchi, L. 2000. Priority effects, taxonomic resolution, and the prediction of variable patterns of colonisation of algae in littoral rock pools. Oecologia 123:265-274.
6. Benedetti-Cecchi, L., and F. Cinelli. 1996. Patterns of disturbance and recovery in littoral rock pools: nonhierarchical competition and spatial variability in secondary succession. Marine Ecology Progress Series 135:145-161.
7. Benedetti-Cecchi, L., F. Pannacciulli, F. Bulleri, P. S. Moschella, L. Airoldi, G. Relini, and F. Cinelli. 2001. Predicting the consequences of anthropogenic disturbance: large-scale effects of loss of canopy algae on rocky shores. Marine Ecology Progress Series 214:137-150.
8. Britton-Simmons, K. H. 2006. Functional group diversity, resource pre-emption and the genesis of invasion resistance in a community of marine algae. Oikos 113:395-401.
9. Bruno, J. F., K. E. Boyer, J. E. Duffy, S. C. Lee, and J. S. Kertesz. 2005. Effects of macroalgal species identity and richness on primary production in benthic marine communities. Ecology Letters 8:1165-1174.
10. Carpenter, R. C. 1990. Competition among marine macroalgae: a physiological perspective. Journal of Phycology 26:6-12.
11. Chapman, A. R. O. 1990. Effects of grazing, canopy cover and substratum type on the abundances of common species fo seaweeds inhabiting littoral fringe tide pools. Botanica Marina 33:319-326.
12. Chesson, P. 2000. Mechanisms of maintenance of species diversity. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 31:343-366.
13. Chevan, A., and M. Sutherland. 1991. Hierarchical partitioning. American Statistician 45:90-96.
14. Colman, J. S. 1933. The nature of intertidal zonation of plants and animals. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 18:435-476.
15. Connell, S. D. 2003. The monopolization of understory habitat by subtidal encrusting coralline algae: a test of the combined effects of canopy-mediated light and sedimentation. Marine Biology 142:1065-1071.
16. Crawley, M. J. 2002. Statistical computing: an introduction to data analysis using S-Plus. John Wiley and Sons, New York, New York, USA.
17. Crawley, M. J., S. L. Brown, M. S. Heard, and G. R. Edwards. 1999. Invasion-resistance in experimental grassland communities: Species richness or species identity? Ecology Letters 2:140-148.
18. Dethier, M. N., E. S. Graham, S. Cohen, and L. M. Tear. 1993. Visual versus random-point percent cover estimations: 'objective' is not always better. Marine Ecology Progress Series 96:93-100.
19. Dukes, J. S. 2001. Biodiversity and invasibility in grassland microcosms. Oecologia 126:563-568.
20. Dunstan, P. K., and C. R. Johnson. 2004. Invasion rates increase with species richness in a marine epibenthic community by two mechanisms. Oecologia 138:285-292.
21. Elton, C. S. 1958. The ecology of invasions by animals and plants. Methuen, London, UK.
22. Eno, N. C., R. A. Clark, and W. G. Sanderson. 1997. Non native marine species in British waters: a review and directory. Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough, UK.
23. Fukami, T., S. Naeem, and D. A. Wardle. 2001. On similarity among local communities in biodiversity experiments. Oikos 95:340-348.
24. Gorgula, S. K., and S. D. Connell. 2004. Expansive cover of turf-forming algae on human-dominated coast: the relative effects of increasing nutrient and sediment loads. Marine Biology 145:613-619.
25. Guisan, A., and N. E. Zimmermann. 2000. Predictive habitat distribution models in ecology. Ecological Modelling 135:147-186.
26. Hawkes, C. V. 2004. Effects of biological soil crust on seed germination of four endangered herbs in a xeric Florida shrubland during drought. Plant Ecology 170:121-134.
27. Hooper, D. U. 1998. The role of complementarity and competition in ecosystem responses to variation in plant diversity. Ecology 79:704-719.
28. Lavorel, S., S. McIntyre, J. Landsberg, and T. D. A. Forbes. 1997. Plant functional classifications: from general groups to specific groups based on response to disturbance. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 12:474-478.
29. Law, R., A. J. Weatherby, and P. H. Warren. 2000. On the invasibility of persistent protist communities. Oikos 88:319-326.
30. Lewis, J. R. 1964. The ecology of rocky shores. English Universities Press, London, UK.
31. Lodge, D. M. 1993. Biological invasions: lessons for ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 8:133-137.
32. Lonsdale, W. M. 1999. Global patterns of plant invasions and the concept of invasibility. Ecology 80:1522-1536.
33. Lotze, H. K., W. Schramm, D. Schories, and B. Worm. 1999. Control of macroalgal blooms at early developmental stages: Pilayella littoralis versus Enteromorpha spp. Oecologia 119:46-54.
34. Mac Nally, R. 2000. Regression and model-building in conservation biology, biogeography and ecology: the distinction between - and reconciliation of - 'predictive' and 'explanatory' models. Biodiversity and Conservation 9:655-671.
35. McGrady-Steed, J., P. M. Harris, and P. J. Morin. 1997. Biodiversity regulates ecosystem predictability. Nature 390:162-165.
36. Meiners, S. J., M. L. Cadenasso, and S. T. A. Pickett. 2004. Beyond biodiversity: individualistic controls of invasion in a self-assembled community. Ecology Letters 7:121-126.
37. Menge, B. A., G. W. Allison, C. A. Blanchette, T. M. Farrell, A. M. Olson, T. A. Turner, and P. van Tamelen. 2005. Stasis or kinesis? Hidden dynamics of a rocky intertidal macrophyte mosaic revealed by a spatially explicit approach. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 314:3-39.
38. Metaxas, A., and R. E. Scheibling. 1993. Community structure and organization of tidepools. Marine Ecology Progress Series 98:187-198.
39. Middelboe, A. L., and T. Binzer. 2004. Importance of canopy structure on photosynthesis in single- and multi-species assemblages of marine algae. Oikos 107:422-432.
40. Moore, J. L., N. Mouquet, J. H. Lawton, and M. Loreau. 2001. Coexistence, saturation and invasion resistance in simulated plant assemblages. Oikos 94:303-314.
41. Morin, P. J., and J. McGrady-Steed. 2004. Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in aquatic microbial systems: a new analysis of temporal variation and species richness-predictability relations. Oikos 104:458-466.
42. Mouquet, N., J. L. Moore, and M. Loreau. 2002. Plant species richness and community productivity: why the mechanism that promotes coexistence matters. Ecology Letters 5:56-66.
43. Naeem, S., J. M. H. Knops, D. Tilman, K. M. Howe, T. Kennedy, and S. Gale. 2000. Plant diversity increases resistance to invasion in the absence of covarying extrinsic factors. Oikos 91:97-108.
44. Naeem, S., L. J. Thompson, S. P. Lawler, J. H. Lawton, and R. M. Wodfin. 1994. Declining diversity can alter the performance of ecosystems. Nature 368:734-736.
45. Olson, A. M., and J. Lubchenco. 1990. Competition in seaweeds: linking plant traits to competitive outcomes. Journal of Phycology 26:1-6.
46. Prieur-Richard, A. H., and S. Lavorel. 2000. Invasions: the perspective of diverse plant communities. Austral Ecology 25:1-7.
47. Quinn, G. P., and M. J. Keough. 2002. Experimental design and data analysis for biologist. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
48. Robinson, G. R., J. F Quinn, and M. L. Stanton. 1995. Invasibility of experimental habitat islands in a California winter annual grassland. Ecology 76:786-794.
49. Schmid, B., and A. Hector. 2004. The value of biodiversity experiments. Basic and Applied Ecology 5:535-542.
50. Shurin, J. B. 2000. Dispersal limitation, invasion resistance, and the structure of pond zooplankton communities. Ecology 81:3074-3086.
51. Stachowicz, J. J., H. Fried, R. W. Osman, and R. B. Whitlatch. 2002. Biodiversity, invasion resistance, and marine ecosystem function: reconciling pattern and process. Ecology 83:2575-2590.
52. Steneck, R. S. 1983. Escalating herbivory and resulting adaptive trends in calcareous algae. Paleobiology 9:45-63.
53. Steneck, R. S., and M. N. Dethier. 1994. A functional group approach to the structure of algal-dominated communities. Oikos 69:476-498.
54. Stohlgren, T. L., D. Binkley, G. W. Chong, M. A. Kalhan, L. D. Schell, K. A. Bull, Y. Otsuki, G. Newman, M. Bashkin, and Y. Son. 1999. Exotic plant species invade hot spots of native plant diversity. Ecological Monographs 69:25-46.
55. Symstad, A. J. 2000. A test of the effects of functional group richness and composition on grassland invasibility. Ecology 81:99-109.
56. Troumbis, A. Y., A. Galinidis, and G. D. Kokkoris. 2002. Components of short term invasibility in experimental Mediterranean grasslands. Oikos 98:239-250.
57. Walsh, C., and R. Mac Nally. 2003. The hier.part package. Hierarchical partitioning. R project for statistical computing. 〈http://cran.r-project. org/〉
58. Wardle, D. A. 1998. A more reliable design for biodiversity study? Nature 394:30.
59. Wardle, D. A. 2001. Experimental demonstration that plant diversity reduces invasibility - evidence of a biological mechanism or a consequence of sampling effect. Oikos 95:161-170.