Spatial interplay of plant competition and consumer foraging mediate plant coexistence and drive the invasion ratchet

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1698, 2010, Pages 3307-3315

  Orrock, John L ^a   Baskett, Marissa L ^b   Holt, Robert D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Biological invasions; Consumers; Refuge mediated apparent competition

Indexed keywords

APPARENT COMPETITION; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COEXISTENCE; COLONIZATION; CONSUMER-RESOURCE INTERACTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANT COMMUNITY; REFUGE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 77958129806     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0738     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Atsatt, P. R. & O'Dowd, D. J. 1976 Plant defense guilds. Science 193, 24-29. (doi:10.1126/science.193.4247.24)
2. Baraza, E., Zamora, R. & Hódar, J. A. 2006 Conditional outcomes in plant-herbivore interactions: neighbours matter. Oikos 113, 148-156. (doi:10.1111/j.0030-1299.2006. 14265.x)
3. Bartholomew, B. 1970 Bare zone between California shrub and grassland communities-role of animals. Science 170, 1210-1212. (doi:10.1126/science.170. 3963.1210)
4. Bell, S. S., McCoy, E. D. & Mushinsky, H. R. 1991 Habitat structure: the physical arrangement of objects in space. New York, NY: Chapman and Hall.
5. Boyd, R. S. 1988 Microdistribution of the beach plant Cakile maritima (Brassicaceae) as influenced by a rodent herbivore. Am. J. Bot. 75, 1540-1548. (doi:10.2307/2444704)
6. Caccia, F. D., Chaneton, E. J. & Kitzberger, T. 2006 Trophic and non-trophic pathways mediate apparent competition through post-dispersal seed predation in a Patagonian mixed forest. Oikos 113, 469-480. (doi:10.1111/j.2006. 0030-1299.14390.x)
7. Caccia, F. D., Chaneton, E. J. & Kitzberger, T. 2009 Direct and indirect effects of understorey bamboo shape regeneration niches in a mixed temperate forest. Oecologia 161, 771-780. (doi:10.1007/s00442-009-1412-z)
8. Cantrell, R. S., Cosner, C. & Fagan, W. F. 2001 How predator incursions affect critical patch size: the role of the functional response. Am. Nat. 158, 368-375. (doi:10. 1086/321989)
9. Caro, T. 2005 Antipredator defenses in birds and mammals. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
10. Chaneton, E. J. & Bonsall, M. B. 2000 Enemy-mediated apparent competition: empirical patterns and the evidence. Oikos 88, 380-394. (doi:10.1034/j.1600-0706. 2000.880217.x)
11. Chaneton, E. J., Mazia, C. N. & Kitzberger, T. 2010 Facilitation vs. apparent competition: insect herbivory alters tree seedling recruitment under nurse shrubs in a steppe-woodland ecotone. J. Ecol. 98, 488-497. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2745.2009.01631.x)
12. Chesson, P. & Warner, R. R. 1981 Environmental variability promotes coexistence in lottery competitive systems. Am. Nat. 117, 923-943. (doi:10.1086/283778)
13. Connell, J. H. 1990 Apparent versus 'real' competition in plant communities. In Perspectives on plant competition (eds J. B. Grace & D. Tilman), pp. 9-26. New York, NY: Academic Press.
14. Crawley, M. J. 1997 Plant ecology. London, UK: Blackwell Science.
15. Dangremond, E. M., Pardini, E. A. & Knight, T. M. In press. Apparent competition with an invasive plant hastens the extinction of an endangered lupine. Ecology.
16. Dytham, C. 1994 Habitat destruction and coexistence: a cellular model. J. Anim. Ecol. 63, 490-491. (doi:10.2307/5567)
17. Eppstein, M. J. & Molofsky, J. 2007 Invasiveness in plant communities with feedbacks. Ecol. Lett. 10, 253-263. (doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01017.x)
18. Fagan, W. E., Cantrell, R. S. & Cosner, C. 1999 How habitat edges change species interactions. Am. Nat. 153, 165-182. (doi:10.1086/303162)
19. Gilliam, J. F. & Fraser, D. F. 1987 Habitat selection under predation hazard: test of a model with foraging minnows. Ecology 68, 1856-1862. (doi:10.2307/1939877)
20. Hambäck, P. A., Pettersson, J. & Ericson, L. 2003 Are asso-ciational refuges species-specific? Funct. Ecol. 17, 87-93. (doi:10.1046/j.1365-2435.2003.00699.x)
21. Holt, R. D. 1977 Predation, apparent competition, and structure of prey communities. Theor. Popul. Biol. 12, 197-229. (doi:10.1016/0040-5809(77)90042-9)
22. Holt, R. D. & Kotler, B. P. 1987 Short-term apparent competition. Am. Nat. 130, 412-430. (doi:10.1086/284718)
23. Huston, M. A. & DeAngelis, D. L. 1994 Competition and coexistence: the effects of resource transport and supply rates. Am. Nat. 144, 954-977. (doi:10.1086/285720)
24. Lambin, X., Elston, D. A., Petty, S. J. & MacKinnon, J. L. 1998 Spatial asynchrony and period travelling waves in cyclic populations of field voles. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 265, 1491-1496.
25. Levine, J. M., Pachepsky, E., Kendall, B. E., Yelenik, S. G. & Lambers, J. H. R. 2006 Plant-soil feedbacks and invasive spread. Ecol. Lett. 9, 1005-1014. (doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2006.00949.x)
26. Mattos, K. J. & Orrock, J. L. 2010 Behavioral consequences of plant invasion: an invasive plant alters rodent antipredator behavior. Behav. Ecol. 21, 556-561. (doi:10.1093/beheco/arq020)
27. McNaughton, S. J. 1978 Feeding selectivity influences the effectiveness of plant defense guilds. Science 199, 806-807. (doi:10.1126/science.199.4330. 806)
28. Menge, B. A. 1995 Indirect effects in marine rocky intertidal interaction webs: patterns and importance. Ecol. Monogr. 65, 21-74. (doi:10.2307/2937158)
29. Nathan, R. & Muller-Landau, H. C. 2000 Spatial patterns of seed dispersal, their determinants and consequences for recruitment. Trends Ecol. Evol. 15, 278-285. (doi:10. 1016/S0169-5347(00)01874-7)
30. Noonburg, E. G. & Byers, J. E. 2005 More harm than good: when invader vulnerability to predators enhances impact on native species. Ecology 86, 2555-2560. (doi:10.1890/05-0143)
31. Orrock, J. L. & Witter, M. S. 2010 Multiple drivers of apparent competition reduce re-establishment of a native plant species in invaded habitat. Oikos 119, 101-108. (doi:10. 1111/j.1600-0706.2009.17831.x)
32. Orrock, J. L., Witter, M. S. & Reichman, O. J. 2008 Apparent competition with an exotic plant reduces native plant establishment. Ecology 89, 1168-1174. (doi:10.1890/07-0223.1)
33. Orrock, J. L., Holt, R. D. & Baskett, M. L. 2010 Refuge-mediated apparent competition in plant-consumer interactions. Ecol. Lett. 13, 11-20. (doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01412.x)
34. Palmer, S. C. F., Hester, A. J., Elston, D. A., Gordon, I. J. & Hartley, S. E. 2003 The perils of having tasty neighbors: grazing impacts of large herbivores at vegetation boundaries. Ecology 84, 2877-2890. (doi:10.1890/02-0245)
35. Silliman, B. R., van de Koppel, J., Bertness, M. D., Stanton, L. E. & Mendelssohn, I. A. 2005 Drought, snails, and large-scale die-off of southern U.S. salt marshes. Science 310, 1803-1806. (doi:10.1126/science.1118229)
36. Skellam, J. G. 1951 Random dispersal in theoretical populations. Biometrika 38, 196-218.
37. Stankowich, T. & Blumstein, D. T. 2005 Fear in animals: a meta-analysis and review of risk assessment. Proc. R. Soc. B 272, 2627-2634. (doi:10.1098/rspb.2005.3251)
38. Tilman, D. 1994 Competition and biodiversity in spatially structured habitats. Ecology 13, 805-831.
39. van de Koppel, J. et al. 2002 Spatial heterogeneity and irreversible vegetation change in semiarid grazing systems. Am. Nat. 159, 209-218.
40. Veldtman, R. & McGeoch, M. A. 2004 Spatially explicit analyses unveil density dependence. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 271, 2439-2444. (doi:10.1098/rspb. 2004.2905)
41. White, J. A. & Whitham, T. G. 2000 Associational susceptibility of a cottonwood to a box elder herbivore. Ecology 81, 1795-1803. (doi:10.1890/0012- 9658(2000)081 [1795:ASOCTA]2.0.CO;2)