Are soil lichen communities structured by biotic interactions? A null model analysis

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 261-266

  Maestre, Fernando T ^a   Escolar, Cristina ^a   Martínez, Isabel ^a   Escudero, Adrián ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biological soil crust; Community assembly rule; Null model analysis; Semi arid; Species co occurrence

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GYPSUM; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LICHEN; SEMIARID REGION;

BELMONTE DEL TAJO; EURASIA; EUROPE; MADRID [SPAIN]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 43249114641     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3170/2007-8-18366     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Armas, C. & Pugnaire, F.I. 2005. Plant interactions govern population dynamics in a semi-arid plant community. Journal of Ecology 93: 978-989.
2. Armstrong, R.A. 1991. Competitive interactions between 4 foliose lichens on North and South facing rock surfaces. Environmental and Experimental Botany 31: 51-58.
3. Belnap, J. 2001. Microbes and microfauna associated with biological soil crusts. In: Belnap, J. & Lange, O.L. (eds.) Biological soil crusts: Structure, function, and management, pp. 167-174. Springer Verlag, Berlin, DE.
4. Belnap, J. & Gillete, D.A. 1998. Vulnerability of desert biological soil crusts to wind erosion: the influences of crust development, soil texture and disturbance. Journal of Arid Environments 39: 133-142.
5. Belnap, J. & Lange, O.L. (eds.) 2001. Biological soil crusts: Structure, function, and management. Springer Verlag, Berlin, DE.
6. Bowker, M.A., Reed, S.C., Belnap, J. & Phillips, S.L. 2002. Temporal variation in community composition, pigmentation, and Fv/Fm of desert cyanobacterial soil crusts. Microbial Ecology 43: 13-25.
7. Bowker, M.A., Belnap, J., Davidson, D.W. & Goldstein, H. 2006. Correlates of biological soil crust abundance across a continuum of spatial scales: support for a hierarchical conceptual model. Journal of Applied Ecology 43: 152-163.
8. Breuss, O. 1996. Studien über die Flechtengattung Catapyrenium (Verrucariaceae) VIII. Eine übersehene Art aus den Alpen und bemerkenswerte Einzelfunde aus Europa (mit Makaronesien). Linzer Biologische Beitrage 28: 529-533.
9. Castellanos, E.M., Figueroa, M.E. & Davy, A.J. 1994. Nucleation and facilitation in saltmarsh succession: Interactions between Spartina maritima and Arthrocnemum perenne. Journal of Ecology 82: 239-248.
10. Clauzade, G. & Roux, C. 1985. Likenoj de Okcidenta Europo. Ilustrita determinlibro. Bulletin de la Société Botanique du Centre-Ouest, Numero spécial 7: 1-893.
11. Connor, E.F. & Simberloff, D. 1979 The assembly of species communities: chance or competition? Ecology 60: 1132-1140.
12. Crespo, A. 1973. Composición florística de la costra de líquenes del Herniario-Teucrietum pumili de la provincia de Madrid. Anales del Instituto Botanico A.J. Cavanilles 30: 57-68.
13. Davidson, D.W., Bowker, M., George, D., Phillips, S.L. & Belnap, J. 2002. Treatment effects on performance of N-fixing lichens in disturbed soil crusts of the Colorado Plateau. Ecological Applications 12: 1391-1405.
14. DeFalco, L.A., Detling, J.K., Richard Tracy, C. & Warren, S.D. 2001. Physiological variation among native and exotic winter annual plants associated with microbiotic crusts in the Mojave Desert. Plant and Soil 234: 1-14.
15. Diamond, J.M. 1975. Assembly of species communities. In: Cody, M.L. & Diamond, J.M. (eds.) Ecology and evolution of communities, pp. 342-444. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, US.
16. Eckert, R.E., Peterson, E.F., Meurisse, M.S. & Stephens, J.L. 1986. Effects of soil surface morphology on emergence and survival of seedlings in big sagebrush communities. Journal of Range Management 39: 414-420.
17. Escudero, A., Martínez, I., de la Cruz, A., Otálora, M.A.G. & Maestre, F.T. 2007. Soil lichens have species-specific effects on the seedling emergence of three gypsophile plant species. Journal of Arid Environments 70: 18-28.
18. Evans, R.D. & Ehleringer, J.R. 1993. A break in the nitrogen cycle in aridlands? Evidence from δ15N of soils. Oecologia 94: 314-317.
19. Gotelli, N.J. 2000. Null model analysis of species co-occurrence patterns. Ecology 81: 2606-2621.
20. Gotelli, N.J. & Ellison, A.M. 2002. Assembly rules for New England ant assemblages. Oikos 99: 591-599
21. Gotelli, N.J. & Entsminger, G.L. 2003. Swap algorithms in null model analysis. Ecology 84: 532-535.
22. Gotelli, N.J. & Entsminger, G.L. 2006. EcoSim: Null models software for ecology. Version 7. Acquired Intelligence Inc. and Kesey-Bear, Jericho. http://garyentsminger.com/ecosim.htm
23. Gotelli, N.J. & McCabe, D.J. 2002. Species co-occurrence: a meta-analysis of J.M. Diamond's assembly rules model. Ecology 83: 2091-2098.
24. Gotelli, N.J. & Rohde, K. 2002. Co-occurrence of ectoparasites of marine fishes: a null model analysis. Ecology Letters 5: 86-94.
25. Hahn, S.C., Oberbauer, S.F., Gebauer, R., Grulke, N.E., Lange, O.L. & Tenhunen, J.D. 1996. Vegetation structure nd aboveground carbon and nutrient pools in the Imnavait Creek Watershed. In: Reynolds, J.F. & Tenhunen, J.D. (eds.) Landscape function and disturbance in Arctic tundra, pp. 109-128. Springer, Berlin, DE.
26. Hladun, N. & Llimona, X. 2002-2007. Checklist of the Lichens and lichenicolous Fungi of the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands. http://botanica.bio.ub.es/checklist/checklist.htm
27. John, E.A. 1989. An assessment of the role of biotic interactions and dynamic processes in the organization of species in a saxicolous lichen community. Canadian Journal of Botany 67: 2025-2037.
28. 2 exchange. Flora 192: 1-15.
29. Maestre, F.T. 2003. Small-scale spatial patterns of two soil lichens in semi-arid Mediterranean steppe. Lichenologist 35: 71-81.
30. Maestre, F.T., Huesca, M.T., Zaady, E., Bautista, S. & Cortina, J. 2002. Infiltration, penetration resistance and microphytic crust composition in contrasted microsites within a Mediterranean semi-arid steppe. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 34: 895-898.
31. Maestre, F.T., Escudero, A., Martínez, I., Guerrero, C. & Rubio, A. 2005a. Does spatial pattern matter to ecosystem functioning? Insights from biological soil crusts. Functional Ecology 19: 566-573.
32. Maestre, F.T., Rodríguez, F., Bautista, S., Cortina, J. & Bellot, J. 2005b. Spatial associations and patterns of perennial vegetation in a semi-arid steppe: a multivariate geostatistics approach. Plant Ecology 179: 133-147.
33. Manly, B.J. 1995. A note on the analysis of species co-occurrences. Ecology 76: 1109-1115.
34. Martínez, I., Escudero, A., Maestre, F.T., de la Cruz, A., Guerrero, C. & Rubio, A. 2006. Small-scale patterns of abundance of mosses and lichens forming biological soil crusts in two semi-arid gypsum environments. Australian Journal of Botany 54: 339-348.
35. Nilsson, M.C. & Wardle, D.A. 2005. Understory vegetation as a forest ecosystem driver: evidence from the northern Swedish boreal forest. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3: 421-428.
36. Pentecost, A. 1980. Aspects of competition in saxicolous lichen communities. Lichenologist 12: 135-144.
37. Pielou, P.P. & Pielou, E.C. 1968. Association among species of infrequent occurrence: the insect and spider fauna of Polyporus betulinus (Bulliard) Fries. Journal of Theoretical Biology 21: 202-216.
38. Pimm, S.L. 1984. The complexity and stability of ecosystems. Nature 307: 321-326.
39. Sanderson, J.G., Moulton, M.P. & Selfridge, R.G. 1998. Null matrices and the analysis of species co-occurrences. Oecologia 116: 275-283.
40. Shepherd, U.L., Brantley, S.L. & Tarleton, C.A. 2002. Species richness and abundance patterns of microarthropods on cryptobiotic crusts in a pinyon-juniper habitat: a call for greater knowledge. Journal of Arid Environments 52: 349-360.
41. Shimizu, A. 2004. Community structure of lichens in the volcanic highlands of Mt. Tokachi, Hokkaido, Japan. Bryologist 107: 141-151.
42. Slack, N.G. 1990. Bryophytes and ecological niche theory. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 104: 187-213.
43. Stone, D.F. 1989. Epiphyte succession on Quercus garryana branches in the Willamette Valley of western Oregon (USA). Bryologist 92, 81-94.
44. Tirado, R. & Pugnaire, I. 2005. Community structure and positive interactions in constraining environments. Oikos 111: 437-444.
45. Tutin, G.T., Heywood, V.H., Burges, N.A., Moore, D.M., Valentine, D.H, Walters, S.M. & Webb, DA. (eds.). 1964-1983. Flora Europaea. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
46. van de Koppel, J., Altieri, A.H., Silliman, B.R., Bruno, J.F. & Bertness, M.D. 2006. Scale-dependent interactions and community structure on cobble beaches. Ecology Letters 9: 45-50.
47. Watson, M.A. 1980. Patterns of habitat occupation in mosses - relevance to considerations of the niche. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 107: 346-372.
48. Weiher, E. & Keddy, P. (eds.) 1999. Ecology assembly rules: Perspectives, advances, retreats. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, US.
49. Wilsey, B.J. & Potvin, C. 2000. Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: Importance of species evenness in an old field. Ecology 81: 887-892.
50. Wilson, J.B., Steel, J.B., Newman, J.E. & Tangney, R.S. 1995. Are bryophyte communities different? Journal of Bryology 18: 689-705.
51. Winemiller, K.O. & Pianka, E.R. 1990. Organization in natural assemblages of desert lizards and tropical fishes. Ecological Monographs 60: 27-55.