Nitrogen uptake by grassland communities: Contribution of N2 fixation, facilitation, complementarity, and species dominance

Plant and Soil

Volumn 358, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 301-322

  Bessler, Holger ^a   Oelmann, Yvonne ^b   Roscher, Christiane ^c   Buchmann, Nina ^d   Scherer Lorenzen, Michael ^e   Schulze, Ernst Detlef ^f   Temperton, Vicky M ^g   Wilcke, Wolfgang ^h   Engels, Christof ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^g FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Complementarity; Facilitation; Grassland; Jena experiment; Legumes; Nitrogen uptake; Selection

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARITY; DOMINANCE; FACILITATION; FLOODPLAIN; GRASSLAND; LEGUME; NITRATE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL NUTRIENT;

GERMANY; JENA; THURINGIA;

EID: 84865780791     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-012-1181-z     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Balvanera P, Pfisterer AB, Buchmann N, He J-S, Nakashizuka T, Raffaelli D, Schmid B (2006) Quantifying the evidence for biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning and services. Ecol Lett 9: 1146-1156.
2. 2 fixation in three perennial Trifolium species in experimental grasslands of varied plant species richness and composition. Plant Ecol 205: 87-104.
3. Chapin FS III, Sala OE, Burke IC, Grime JP, Hooper DU, Lauenroth WK, Lombard A, Mooney HA, Mosier AR, Naeem S, Pacala SW, Roy J, Steffen WL, Tilman D (1998) Ecosystem Consequences of Changing Biodiversity. Experimental evidence and a research agenda for the future. Bioscience 48: 45-52.
4. Danso SKA, Zapata F, Hardarson G (1987) Nitrogen fixation in fababeans as affected by population density in sole or intercropped systems with barley. Soil Biol Biochem 19: 411-415.
5. de Deyn GB, Quirk H, Yi Z, Oakley S, Ostle NJ, Bardgett RD (2009) Plant species composition promotes carbon and nitrogen storage in model grassland communities of contrasting soil fertility. J Ecol 97: 864-875.
6. Ellenberg H (1988) Vegetation ecology of Central Europe. Cambridge Univ Press, Cambridge.
7. Fargione J, Tilman D, Dybzinski R, Hille Ris Lambers J, Clark C, Harpole SW, Knops JMH, Reich PB, Loreau M (2007) From selection to complementarity: shifts in the causes of biodiversity-productivity relationships in a long-term biodiversity experiment. Proc R Soc Lond B 274: 871-876.
8. Fornara DA, Tilman D (2009) Ecological mechanisms associated with the positive diversity-productivity relationship in an N-limited grassland. Ecology 90: 408-418.
9. Fridley JD (2003) Diversity effects on production in different light and fertility environments: an experiment with communities of annual plants. J Ecol 91: 396-406.
10. 15N values reveal increased nitrogen partitioning among species in diverse grassland communities. Plant Cell Environ 34: 895-908.
11. Habekost M, Eisenhauer N, Scheu S, Steinbeiss S, Weigelt A, Gleixner G (2008) Seasonal changes in the soil microbial community in a grassland plant diversity gradient four years after establishment. Soil Biol Biochem 40: 2588-2595.
12. Hooper DU, Vitousek PM (1997) The Effects of Plant Composition and Diversity on Ecosystem Processes. Science 277: 1302-1305.
13. Hooper DU (1998) The role of complementarity and competition in ecosystem responses to variation in plant diversity. Ecology 79: 704-719.
14. Hooper DU, Chapin FS, Ewel JJ, Hector A, Inchausti P, Lavorel S, Lawton JH, Lodge DM, Loreau M, Naeem S, Schmid B, Setälä H, Symstad AJ, Vandermeer J, Wardle DA (2005) Effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning: a consensus of current knowledge. Ecol Monogr 75: 3-35.
15. Huston MA (1993) Biological Diversity, Soils, and Economics. Science 262: 1676-1680.
16. Huston MA (1997) Hidden treatments in ecological experiments: re-evaluating the ecosystem function of biodiversity. Oecologia 110: 449-460.
17. Huston MA, McBride AC (2002) Evaluating the relative strengths of biotic versus abiotic controls on ecosystem processes. In: Loreau M, Naeem S, Inchausti P (eds) Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning. Synthesis and Perspectives. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 47-60.
18. 2 fixation and interspecific competition for inorganic N in pea-barley intercrops. Plant Soil 182: 25-38.
19. Kluge G, Müller-Westermeier G (2000) Das Klima ausgewählter Orte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Jena. Berichte des Deutschen Wetterdienstes 213.
20. 2 fixation as an alternative N source. In: Bacon PE (ed) Nitrogen fertilization in the environment. Marcel Dekker, New York, pp 443-486.
21. Lepš J, Brown VK, Diaz Len TA, Gormsen D, Hedlund K, Kailová J, Korthals GW, Mortimer SR, Rodriguez-Barrueco C, Roy J, Regina IS, van Dijk C, van der Putten WH (2001) Separating the chance effect from other diversity effects in the functioning of plant communities. Oikos 92: 123-134.
22. Loreau M (1998) Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: A mechanistic model. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95: 5632-5636.
23. Loreau M, Naeem S, Inchausti P, Bengtsson J, Grime JP, Hector A, Hooper DU, Huston MA, Raffaelli D, Schmid B, Tilman D, Wardle DA (2001) Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges. Science 294: 804-808.
24. McKane RB, Johnson LC, Shaver GR, Nadelhoffer KJ, Rastetter EB, Fry B, Giblin AE, Kielland K, Kwiatkowski BL, Laundre JA, Murray G (2002) Resource-based niches provide a basis for plant species diversity and dominance in arctic tundra. Nature 415: 68-71.
25. Moutonnet P, Fardeau JC (1997) Inorganic nitrogen in soil solution collected with tensionic samplers. Soil Sci Soc Am J 61: 822-825.
26. Niklaus PA, Wardle DA, Tate KR (2006) Effects of plant species diversity and composition on nitrogen cycling and trace gas balance of soils. Plant Soil 282: 83-98.
27. Nyfeler D, Huguenin-Elie O, Suter M, Frossard E, Lüscher A (2011) Grass-legume mixtures can yield more nitrogen than legume pure stands due to mutual stimulation of nitrogen uptake from symbiotic and non-symbiotic sources. Agric Ecosyst Environ 140: 155-163.
28. Oelmann Y, Buchmann N, Gleixner G, Habekost M, Roscher C, Rosenkranz S, Schulze ED, Steinbeiss S, Temperton VM, Weigelt A, Weisser WW, Wilcke W (2011) Plant diversity effects on above- and belowground N pools in grassland ecosystems: Development in the first five years after establishment. Glob Biogeochem Cycles 25: GB2014.
29. Oliveira MRG, van Noordwijk M, Gaze SR, Brouwer G, Bona S, Mosca G, Hairiah K (2000) Auger sampling, ingrowth cores and pinboard methods. In: Smit AL, Bengough C, Engels C, van Noordwijk M, Pellerin S, van de Geiijn SC (eds) Root methods-a handbook. Springer, Berlin, pp 175-210.
30. Phoenix GK, Johnson D, Grime JP, Booth RE (2008) Sustaining ecosystem services in ancient limestone grassland: important of major component plants and community composition. J Ecol 96: 894-902.
31. Pornon A, Escaravage N, Lamaze T (2007) Complementarity in mineral nitrogen use among dominant plant species in a subalpine community. Am J Bot 94: 1778-1785.
32. 2 and nitrogen deposition. Nature 410: 809-812.
33. Roscher C, Schumacher J, Baade J, Wilcke W, Gleixner G, Weisser WW, Schmid B, Schulze E-D (2004) The role of biodiversity for element cycling and trophic interactions: an experimental approach in a grassland community. Basic Appl Ecol 5: 107-121.
34. Roscher C, Temperton VM, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Schmitz M, Schumacher J, Schmid B, Buchmann N, Weisser WW, Schulze E-D (2005) Overyielding in experimental grassland communities-irrespective of species pool or spatial scale. Ecol Lett 8: 419-429.
35. Roscher C, Schumacher J, Weisser WW, Schmid B, Schulze E-D (2007) Detecting the role of individual species for overyielding in experimental grassland communities composed of potentially dominant species. Oecologia 154: 535-549.
36. Roscher C, Thein S, Schmid B, Scherer-Lorenzen M (2008) Complementary nitrogen use among potentially dominant species in a biodiversity experiment varies between two years. J Ecol 96: 477-488.
37. Roscher C, Schmid B, Buchmann N, Weigelt A, Schulze E-D (2011a) Legume species differ in the responses of their functional traits to plant diversity. Oecologia 165: 437-452.
38. 2 fixation and performance of 12 legume species in a 6-year grassland biodiversity experiment. Plant Soil 343: 333-348.
39. Sanderson MA, Skinner RH, Barker DJ, Edwards GR, Tracy BF, Wedin DA (2004) Plant Species Diversity and Management of Temperate Forage and Grazing Land Ecosystems. Crop Sci 44: 1132-1144.
40. Sanderson MA (2010) Stability of production and plant species diversity in managed grasslands: A retrospective study. Basic Appl Ecol 11: 216-224.
41. Scherer-Lorenzen M (2008) Functional diversity affects decomposition processes in experimental grasslands. Funct Ecol 22: 547-555.
42. Špaèková I, Lepš J (2001) Procedure for separating the selection effect from other effects in diversity-productivity relationship. Ecol Lett 4: 585-594.
43. Spehn EM, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Schmid B, Hector A, Caldeira MC, Dimitrakopoulos PG, Finn JA, Jumpponen A, O'Donnovan G, Pereira JS, Schulze E-D, Troumbis AY, Körner C (2002) The role of legumes as a component of biodiversity in a cross-European study of grassland biomass nitrogen. Oikos 98: 205-218.
44. Spehn EM, Hector A, Joshi J, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Schmid B, Bazeley-White E, Beierkuhnlein C, Caldeira MC, Diemer M, Dimitrakopoulos PG, Finn JA, Freitas H, Giller PS, Good J, Harris R, Högberg P, Huss-Danell K, Jumpponen A, Koricheva J, Leadley PW, Loreau M, Minns A, Mulder CPH, O'Donovan G, Otway SJ, Palmborg C, Pereira JS, Pfisterer AB, Prinz A, Read DJ, Schulze E-D, Siamantziouras A-SD, Terry AC, Troumbis AY, Woodward FI, Yachi S, Lawton JH (2005) Ecosystem effects of biodiversity manipulations in European grasslands. Ecol Monogr 75: 37-63.
45. Steinbeiss S, Beßler H, Engels C, Temperton VM, Buchmann N, Roscher C, Kreutziger Y, Baade J, Habekost M, Gleixner G (2008) Plant diversity positively affects short-term soil carbon storage in experimental grasslands. Glob Change Biol 14: 2937-2949.
46. Symstad AJ, Tilman D, Willson J, Knops JMH (1998) Species loss and ecosystem functioning: effects of species identity and community composition. Oikos 81: 389-397.
47. Temperton VM, Mwangi PN, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Schmid B, Buchmann N (2007) Positive interactions between nitrogen-fixing legumes and four different neighbouring species in a biodiversity experiment. Oecologia 151: 190-205.
48. Thein S, Roscher C, Schulze E-D (2008) Effects of trait plasticity on aboveground biomass production depend on species identity in experimental grasslands. Basic Appl Ecol 9: 475-484.
49. Tilman D (1997) Distinguishing between the effects of species diversity and species composition. Oikos 80: 185.
50. Tilman D, Knops J, Wedin D, Reich P, Ritchie M, Siemann E (1997) The influence of functional diversity and composition on ecosystem processes. Science 277: 1300-1302.
51. van Ruijven J, Berendse F (2005) Diversity-productivity relationships: Initial effects, long-term patterns, and underlying mechanisms. PNAS 102: 695-700.
52. Vitousek PM, Howarth RW (1991) Nitrogen limitation on land and in the sea: how can it occur? Biogeochemistry 13: 87-115.