Are functional guilds more realistic management units than individual species for restoration?

Weed Technology

Volumn 18, Issue SPEC. ISSUE 1, 2004, Pages 1566-1571

  Brown, Cynthia S ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Community assembly; Competition; Functional traits; Invasion; Resource use; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349111812     PISSN: 0890037X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1614/0890-037X(2004)018[1566:AFGMRM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (48)

1. Allen, E. B., W. W. Covington, and D. A. Falk. 1997. Developing the conceptual basis for restoration ecology. Restor. Ecol. 5:275-276.
2. Bond, W. J. 1994. Keystone species. In E.-D. Schulze and H. A. Mooney, eds. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function. Berlin, Germany: Springer- Verlag. Pp. 237-253.
3. Box, E. O. 1981. Macroclimate and Plant Forms: An Introduction to Predictive Modeling in Phytogeography. The Hague, The Netherlands: Junk. 258 p.
4. Bruce, K. A., G. N. Cameron, and P. A. Harcombe. 1995. Initiation of a new woodland type on the Texas coastal prairie by the Chinese tallow tree (Sapium sebiferum (L.) Roxb). Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 122:215-225.
5. Bruce, K. A., G. N. Cameron, P. A. Harcombe, and G. Jubinsky. 1997. Introduction, impact on native habitats, and management of a woody invader, the Chinese tallow tree, Sapium sebiferum (L.) Roxb. Nat. Areas J. 17: 255-260.
6. Craine, J. M., D. Tilman, D. Wedin, P. Reich, M. Tjoelker, and J. Knops. 2002. Functional traits, productivity and effects on nitrogen cycling of 33 grassland species. Funct. Ecol. 16:563-574.
7. Craine, J. M., D. A. Wedin, F. S. Chapin, and P. B. Reich. 2003. Relationship between the structure of root systems and resource use for 11 North American grassland plants. Plant Ecol. 165:85-100.
8. D'Antonio, C. M. and P. M. Vitousek. 1992. Biological invasions by exotic grasses, the grass/fire cycle, and global change. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 23:63-87.
9. Davis, M. A. and M. Pelsor. 2001. Experimental support for a resource-based mechanistic model of invasibility. Ecol. Lett. 4:421-428.
10. DiTomaso, J. M. 2000. Invasive weeds in rangelands: species, impacts, and management. Weed Sci. 48:255-265.
11. Dukes, J. S. 2001. Biodiversity and invasibility in grassland microcosms. Oecologia 126:563-568.
12. Dukes, J. S. 2002. Species composition and diversity affect grassland susceptibility and response to invasion. Ecol. Appl. 12:602-617.
13. Fargione, J., C. S. Brown, and D. Tilman. 2003. Community assembly and invasion: an experimental test of neutral versus niche processes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100:8916-8920.
14. Gitay, H. and I. R. Noble. 1997. What are functional types and how should we seek them? In T. M. Smith, H. H. Shugart, and F. I. Woodward, eds. Plant Functional Types: Their Relevance to Ecosystem Properties and Global Change. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 3-19.
15. Gleason, H. A. and A. Cronquist, eds. 1998. Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. Bronx, NY: New York Botanical Garden. 910 p.
16. Grime, J. P. 1988. The C-S-R model of primary plant strategies-origins, implications and tests. In L. D. Gottlieb and S. K. Jain, eds. Plant Evolutionary Biology. London: Chapman and Hall. Pp. 371-393.
17. Harris, G. A. 1967. Some competitive relationships between Agropyron spicatum and Bromus tectorum. Ecol. Monogr. 37:89-111.
18. Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 1400 p.
19. Hooper, D. 1998. The role of complementarity and competition in ecosystem responses to variation in plant diversity. Ecology 79:704-719.
20. Hooper, D. and P. M. Vitousek. 1998. Effects of plant composition and diversity on nutrient cycling. Ecol. Monogr. 68:121-149.
21. Hooper, D. U. and P. M. Vitousek. 1997. The effects of plant composition and diversity on ecosystem processes. Science 277:1302-1305.
22. Jordan, W. R., M. E. Gilpin, and J. D. Aber, eds. 1987. Restoration Ecology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 342 p.
23. Kennedy, T. A., S. Naeem, K. M. Howe, J.M.H. Knops, D. Tilman, and P. Reich. 2002. Biodiversity as a barrier to ecological invasion. Nature 417: 636-638.
24. Kindscher, K. and P. Wells. 1995. Prairie plant guilds: a multivariate analysis of prairie species based on ecological and morphological traits. Vegetatio 117:29-50.
25. Klemmedson, J. O. and J. G. Smith. 1964. Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.C.). Bot. Rev. 30:226-262.
26. Knick, S. T. and J. T. Rotenberry. 1997. Landscape characteristics of disturbed shrubsteppe habitats in southwestern Idaho (USA). Landsc. Ecol. 12: 287-297.
27. Knops, J.M.H., D. Tilman, N. M. Haddad, et al. 1999. Effects of plant species richness on invasion dynamics, disease outbreaks, insect abundances and diversity. Ecol. Lett. 2:286-293.
28. Naeem, S. 1998. Species redundancy and ecosystem reliability. Conserv. Biol. 12:39-45.
29. 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.
30. Prentice, I. C., W. Cramer, S. P. Harrison, R. Leemans, R. A. Monserud, and A. M. Solomon. 1992. A global biome model based on plant physiology and dominance, soil properties and climate. J. Biogeogr. 19:117-134.
31. Rafferty, D. L. and J. A. Young. 2002. Cheatgrass competition and establishment of desert needlegrass seedlings. J. Range Manag. 55:70-72.
32. Raunkiaer, C. 1934. The Life Forms of Plants and Statistical Plant Geography. Oxford University Press. (Translated by Carter, Fausboll and Tansley.)
33. Reich, P. B., C. Buschena, M. G. Tjoelker, K. Wrage, J. Knops, D. Tilman, and J. L. Machado. 2003a. Variation in growth rate and ecophysiology among 34 grassland and savanna species under contrasting N supply: a test of functional group differences. New Phytol. 157:617-631.
34. 2 and N availability regimes? A field test with 16 grassland species. New Phytol. 150:435-448.
35. Root, R. B. 1967. The niche exploration pattern of a blue grey gnatcatcher. Ecol. Monogr. 37:317-350.
36. Schulze, E. D. and H. A. Mooney, eds. 1994. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag. 525 p.
37. Shugart, H. H. 1997. Plant and ecosystem functional types. In T. M. Smith, H. H. Shugart, and F. I. Woodward, eds. Plant Functional Types: Their Relevance to Ecosystem Properties and Global Change. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 20-43.
38. Smith, T. M., H. H. Shugart, and F. I. Woodward, eds. 1997. Plant Functional Types: Their Relevance to Ecosystem Properties and Global Change. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 632 p.
39. Stewart, G. and A. C. Hull. 1949. Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.): an ecologic intruder in southern Idaho. Ecology 30:58-74.
40. Svejcar, T. 1990. Root length, leaf area, and biomass of crested wheatgrass and cheatgrass seedlings. J. Range Manag. 43:446-448.
41. Symstad, A. J. 2000. A test of the effects of functional group richness and composition on grassland invasibility. Ecology 81:99-109.
42. Tilman, D. 1997. Community invasibility, recruitment limitation, and grassland biodiversity. Ecology 78:81-92.
43. Tilman, D., J. Knops, D. Wedin, P. Reich, M. Ritchie, and E. Siemann. 1997. The influence of functional diversity and composition on ecosystem processes. Science 277:1300-1302.
44. Tilman, D., D. Wedin, and J. Knops. 1996. Productivity and sustainability influenced by biodiversity in grassland ecosystems. Nature 379:718-720.
45. Vitousek, P. M. 1990. Biological invasions and ecosystem processes: towards an integration of population biology and ecosystem studies. Oikos 57:7-13.
46. Westoby, M. and M. Leishman. 1997. Categorizing plant species into functional types. In T. M. Smith, H. H. Shugart, and F. I. Woodward, eds. Plant Functional Types: Their Relevance to Ecosystem Properties and Global Change. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 104- 121.
47. Whisenant, S. 1990. Changing fire frequencies on Idaho's Snake River plains: ecological and management implications. In Proceedings of the Symposium of Cheatgrass Invasion, Shrub Dieoff and Other Aspects of Shrub Biology and Management. USDA-USFS Intermountain Research Station. Gen. Tech. Rep. INT-276. Pp. 4-10.
48. Woodward, F. I., T. M. Smith, and H. H. Shugart. 1997. Defining plant functional types: the end view. In T. M. Smith, H. H. Shugart, and F. I. Woodward, eds. Plant Functional Types: Their Relevance to Ecosystem Properties and Global Change. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 355-359.