Plant and soil responses to defoliation: A comparative study of grass species with contrasting life history strategies

Plant and Soil

Volumn 344, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 377-388

  Medina Roldán, Eduardo ^a   Bardgett, Richard D ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Defoliation; Grassland; Herbivory; Life history strategies; Microbial biomass; Nitrogen cycling

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; BIOMASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEFOLIATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRASS; GRASSLAND; HERBIVORY; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROCOSM; MINERALIZATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL TYPE; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 79958768675     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-011-0756-4     Document Type: Article

References (73)

1. Ayres E, Dromph KM, Cook R, Ostle N, Bardgett RD (2007) The influence of below-ground herbivory and defoliation of a legume on nitrogen transfer to neighbouring plants. Funct Ecol 21: 256-263.
2. Bardgett RD, Wardle DA (2003) Herbivore-mediated linkages between aboveground and belowground communities. Ecology 84: 2258-2268.
3. Bardgett RD, Wardle DA (2010) Aboveground-belowground linkages: biotic interactions, ecosystem processes, and global change. Oxford University Press Inc, New York.
4. Bardgett RD, Wardle DA, Yeates GW (1998) Linking above-ground and below-ground interactions: how plant responses to foliar herbivory influence soil organisms. Soil Biol Biochem 30: 1867-1878.
5. Bardgett RD, Mawdsley JL, Edwards S, Hobbs PJ, Rodwell JS, Davies WJ (1999) Plant species and nitrogen effects on soil biological properties of temperate upland grasslands. Funct Ecol 13: 650-660.
6. Bardgett RD, Streeter T, Bol R (2003) Soil microbes compete effectively with plants for organic nitrogen inputs to temperate grasslands. Ecology 84: 1277-1287.
7. Bazot S, Mikola J, Nguyen C, Robin C (2005) Defoliation-induced changes in carbon allocation and root soluble carbon concentration in field-grown Lolium perenne plants: do they affect carbon availability, microbes and animal trophic groups in soil? Funct Ecol 19: 886-896.
8. Berg G, Esselink P, Groeneweg M, Kiehl K (1997) Micropatterns in Festuca rubra-dominated salt-marsh vegetation induced by sheep grazing. Plant Ecol 132: 1-14.
9. Bezemer TM, Lawson CS, Hedlund K, Edwards AR, Brook AJ, Igual JM, Mortimer SR, van der Putten WH (2006) Plant species and functional group effects on abiotic and microbial soil properties and plant-soil feedback responses in two grasslands. J Ecol 94: 893-904.
10. Briske DD (1996) Strategies of plant survival in grazed systems: a functional interpretation. In: Hodgson J, Illius AW (eds) The ecology and management of grazing systems. CAB International, Wallingford, pp 37-67.
11. Brookes PC, Landman A, Pruden G, Jenkinson DS (1985) Chloroform fumigation and the release of soil nitrogen: a rapid direct extraction method to measure microbial biomass nitrogen in soil. Soil Biol Biochem 17: 837-842.
12. Burke IC, Lauenroth WK, Vinton MA, Hook PB, Kelly RH, Epstein HE, Aguiar MR, Robles MD, Aguilera MO, Murphy KL, Gill RA (1998) Plant-soil interactions in temperate grasslands. Biogeochemistry 42: 121-143.
13. Cabrera ML, Beare MH (1993) Alkaline persulfate oxidation for determining total nitrogen in microbial biomass extracts. Soil Sci Soc Am J 57: 1007-1012.
14. Campbell CA, Ellert BH, Jame Y (1993) Nitrogen mineralization potential in soils. In: Carter MR (ed) Soil sampling and methods of analysis. Lewis, Boca Raton, pp 341-349.
15. Chapin SF, Slack M (1979) Effect of defoliation upon root growth, phosphate absorption and respiration in nutrient-limited tundra graminoids. Oecologia 42: 67-79.
16. Clapham AR, Tutin TG, Moore DM (1987) Flora of the British Isles, 3rd edn. Cambridge University Press, New York.
17. Clarholm M (1985) Interactions of bacteria, protozoa and plants leading to mineralization of soil nitrogen. Soil Biol Biochem 17: 181-187.
18. Crawley MJ (1990) Rabbit grazing, plant competition and seedling recruitment in acid grassland. J Appl Ecol 27: 803-820.
19. Cumming DHM, Cumming GS (2003) Ungulate community structure and ecological processes: body size, hoof area and trampling in African savannas. Oecologia 134: 560-568.
20. Day TA, Detling JK (1990) Grassland patch dynamics and herbivore grazing preference following urine deposition. Ecology 71: 180-188.
21. de Mazancourt C, Loreau M, Abbadie L (1998) Grazing optimization and nutrient cycling: when do herbivores enhance plant production? Ecology 79: 2242-2252.
22. Elberse WT, Berendse F (1993) A comparative study of the growth and morphology of eight grass species from habitats with different nutrient availabilities. Funct Ecol 7: 223-229.
23. Engqvist L (2005) The mistreatment of covariate interaction terms in linear model analyses of behavioural and evolutionary ecology studies. Anim Behav 70: 967-971.
24. Ferraro DO, Oesterheld M (2002) Effect of defoliation on grass growth. A quantitative review. Oikos 98: 125-133.
25. Gastal F, Dawson LA, Thornton B (2010) Responses of plant traits of four grasses from contrasting habitats to defoliation and N supply. Nutr Cycl Agroecosyst 88: 245-258.
26. Grayston SJ, Griffith GS, Mawdsley JL, Campbell CD, Bardgett RD (2001) Accounting for variability in soil microbial communities of temperate upland grassland ecosystems. Soil Biol Biochem 33: 533-551.
27. Grime JP (2007) Comparative plant ecology: a functional approach to common British species. Castlepoint, Dalbeattie.
28. Grime JP, Hunt R (1975) Relative growth-rate: its range and adaptive significance in a local flora. J Ecol 63: 393-422.
29. Guitian R, Bardgett RD (2000) Plant and soil microbial responses to defoliation in temperate semi-natural grassland. Plant Soil 220: 271-277.
30. Hamilton EW III, Frank DA (2001) Can plants stimulate soil microbes and their own nutrient supply? Evidence from a grazing tolerant grass. Ecology 82: 2397-2402.
31. Hamilton EW III, Frank DA, Hinchey PM, Murray TR (2008) Defoliation induces root exudation and triggers positive rhizospheric feedbacks in a temperate grassland. Soil Biol Biochem 40: 2865-2873.
32. Harrison KA, Bardgett RD (2010) Influence of plant species and soil conditions on plant-soil feedback in mixed grassland communities. J Ecol 98: 384-395.
33. Hartley SE, Amos L (1999) Competitive interactions between Nardus stricta L. and Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull: the effect of fertilizer and defoliation on above- and below-ground performance. J Ecol 87: 330-340.
34. Hill MO, Carey PD (1997) Prediction of yield in the Rothamsted park grass experiment by Ellenberg indicator values. J Veg Sci 8: 579-586.
35. Hokka V, Mikola J, Vestberg M, Setälä H (2004) Interactive effects of defoliation and an AM fungus on plants and soil organisms in experimental legume-grass communities. Oikos 106: 73-84.
36. Holland J (1995) Effects of above-ground herbivory on soil microbial biomass in conventional and no-tillage agroecosystems. Appl Soil Ecol 2: 275-279.
37. Holland JN, Cheng W, Crossley DA (1996) Herbivore-induced changes in plant carbon allocation: assessment of below-ground C fluxes using carbon-14. Oecologia 107: 87-94.
38. Ilmarinen K, Mikola J, Nieminen M, Vestberg M (2005) Does plant growth phase determine the response of plants and soil organisms to defoliation? Soil Biol Biochem 37: 433-443.
39. Innes L, Hobbs PJ, Bardgett RD (2004) The impacts of individual plant species on rhizosphere microbial communities in soils of different fertility. Biol Fertil Soils 40: 7-13.
40. Kaye JP, Hart SC (1997) Competition for nitrogen between plants and soil microorganisms. Trends Ecol Evol 12: 139-143.
41. Kembel SW, Cahill JF Jr (2005) Plant phenotypic plasticity belowground: a phylogenetic perspective on root foraging trade-offs. Am Nat 166: 216-230.
42. Kimura K, Kikuchi S, Yamasaki S (1999) Accurate root length measurement by image analysis. Plant Soil 216: 117-127.
43. Klironomos JN, McCune J, Moutoglis P (2004) Species of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi affect mycorrhizal responses to simulated herbivory. Appl Soil Ecol 26: 133-141.
44. Markham JH, Grime JP, Buckland S (2009) Reciprocal interactions between plants and soil in an upland grassland. Ecol Res 24: 93-98.
45. Marschner P, Crowley D, Yang CH (2004) Development of specific rhizosphere bacterial communities in relation to plant species, nutrition and soil type. Plant Soil 261: 199-208.
46. Massey FP, Ennos AR, Hartley SE (2007) Grasses and the resource availability hypothesis: the importance of silica-based defences. J Ecol 95: 414-424.
47. Mawdsley JL, Bardgett RD (1997) Continuous defoliation of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) and white clover (Trifolium repens) and associated changes in the composition and activity of the microbial population of an upland grassland soil. Biol Fert Soils 24: 52-58.
48. McNaughton SJ, Banyikwa FF, McNaughton MM (1998) Root biomass and productivity in a grazing ecosystem: the serengeti. Ecology 79: 587-592.
49. Medina-Roldán E, Arredondo Moreno JT, García-Moya E, Huerta-Martínez FM (2007) Soil water content dynamics along a range condition gradient in a shortgrass steppe. Rangel Ecol Manag 60: 79-87.
50. Mikola J, Kytöviita M (2002) Defoliation and the availability of currently assimilated carbon in the Phleum pratense rhizosphere. Soil Biol Biochem 34: 1869-1874.
51. Mikola J, Yeates GW, Barker GM, Wardle DA, Bonner KI (2001a) Effects of defoliation intensity on soil food-web properties in an experimental grassland community. Oikos 92: 333-343.
52. Mikola J, Yeates GW, Wardle DA, Barker GM, Bonner KI (2001b) Response of soil food-web structure to defoliation of different plant species combinations in an experimental grassland community. Soil Biol Biochem 33: 205-214.
53. Mikola J, Setälä H, Virkajärvi P, Saarijärvi K, Ilmarinen K, Voigt W, Vestberg M (2009) Defoliation and patchy nutrient return drive grazing effects on plant and soil properties in a dairy cow pasture. Ecol Monogr 79: 221-244.
54. Milchunas DG, Lauenroth WK (1993) Quantitative Effects of grazing on vegetation and soils over a global range of environments. Ecol Monogr 63: 328-366.
55. Oesterheld M (1992) Effect of defoliation intensity on aboveground and belowground relative growth rates. Oecologia 92: 313-316.
56. Orwin KH, Buckland SM, Johnson D, Turner BL, Smart S, Oakley S, Bardgett RD (2010) Linkages of plant traits to soil properties and the functioning of temperate grassland. J Ecol 98: 1074-1083.
57. Owen DF (1980) How plants may benefit from the animals that eat them. Oikos 35: 230-235.
58. Paterson E, Sim A (1999) Rhizodeposition and C-partitioning of Lolium perenne in axenic culture affected by nitrogen supply and defoliation. Plant Soil 216: 155-164.
59. Paterson E, Sim A (2000) Effect of nitrogen supply and defoliation on loss of organic compounds from roots of Festuca rubra. J Exp Bot 51: 1449-1457.
60. Pinheiro J, Bates D, DebRoy S, Sarkar D, The R core team (2008) nlme: linear and nonlinear mixed effects models.
61. R Development Core Team (2010) R: a language and environment for statistical computing. Vienna, Austria.
62. Rasband WS (2007) ImageJ. US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD (http://rsb. info. nih. gov/ij/).
63. Ritchie ME, Tilman D, Knops JMH (1998) Herbivore effects on plant and nitrogen dynamics in oak savanna. Ecology 79: 165-177.
64. Roduit N (2007) JMicroVision: un logiciel d'analyse d'images pétrographiques polyvalent. Terre et Environnement, University of Geneva.
65. Rodwell JS (1992) Grasslands and montane communities, British plant communities, 3rd edn. Cambridge University Press, New York.
66. Sankaran M, Augustine DJ (2004) Large herbivores suppress decomposer abundance in a semiarid grazing ecosystem. Ecology 85: 1052-1061.
67. Seagle SW, McNaughton SJ, Ruess RW (1992) Simulated effects of grazing on soil nitrogen and mineralization in contrasting Serengeti grasslands. Ecology 73: 1105-1123.
68. Sparling GP, Feltham CW, Reynolds J, West AW, Singleton P (1990) Estimation of soil microbial C by a fumigation-extraction method: use on soils of high organic matter content, and a reassessment of the k sub (EC)-factor. Soil Biol Biochem 22: 301-307.
69. van der Graaf AJ, Stahl J, Bakker JP (2005) Compensatory growth of Festuca rubra after grazing: can migratory herbivores increase their own harvest during staging? Funct Ecol 19: 961-969.
70. Vance E, Brookes P, Jenkinson D (1987) An extraction method for measuring soil microbial biomass C. Soil Biol Biochem 19: 703-707.
71. Wardle DA, Barker GM, Yeates GW, Bonner KI, Ghani A (2001) Introduced browsing mammals in New Zealand natural forests: aboveground and belowground consequences. Ecol Monogr 71: 587-614.
72. Welch D (1986) Studies in the grazing of heather moorland in North-East Scotland. V. trends in Nardus stricta and other unpalatable graminoids. J Appl Ecol 23: 1047-1058.
73. Zar JH (1998) Biostatistical analysis, 4th edn. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River.