Legacy Effects: The Persistent Impact of Ecological Interactions

Biological Theory

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 203-210

  Cuddington, Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ecological inheritance; Ecosystem engineering; Legacy effects; Niche construction; Succession

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890309870     PISSN: 15555542     EISSN: 15555550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13752-012-0027-5     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Aber JD, Ollinger SV, Dricoll CT (1997) Modeling nitrogen saturation in forest ecosystems in response to land use and atmospheric deposition. Ecol Model 101:61–78 DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(97)01953-4
2. Bassett IE, Simcock RC, Mitchell ND (2005) Consequences of soil compaction for seedling establishment: implications for natural regeneration and restoration. Austral Ecol 30:827–833 DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2005.01525.x
3. Bowman DMJS, Prior LD, de Little SC (2010) Retreating Melaleuca swamp forests in Kakadu National Park: evidence of synergistic effects of climate change and past feral buffalo impacts. Austral Ecol 35:898–905 DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2009.02096.x
4. Carson WP, Banta JA, Royo AA, Kirschbaum C (2005) Plant communities growing on boulders in the Allegheny National Forest: evidence for boulders as refugia from deer and as a bioassay of overbrowsing. Nat Area J 25:10–18
5. Clements F (1916) Plant succession. Publication 242. Carnegie Institute of Washington, Washington, DC DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.56234
6. Davis MA, Pelsor M (2001) Experimental support for a resource-based mechanistic model of invasiblity. Ecol Lett 4:421–428 DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2001.00246.x
7. Davis MA, Bier L, Bushelle E, Diegel C, Johnson A, Kujala B (2005) Non-indigenous grasses impede woody succession. Plant Ecol 178:249–264 DOI: 10.1007/s11258-004-4640-7
8. Densmore RV (2005) Succession on subalpine placer mine spoil: effects of revegetation with Alnus viridis, Alaska, USA. Arct Antarct Alp Res 37:297–303 DOI: 10.1657/1523-0430(2005)037[0297:SOSPMS]2.0.CO;2
9. Elgersma KJ, Ehrenfeld JG, Yu S, Vor T (2011) Legacy effects overwhelm the short-term effects of exotic plant invasion and restoration on soil microbial community structure, enzyme activities, and nitrogen cycling. Oecologia 167:733–745 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-2022-0
10. Estes JA, Terborgh J, Brashares JS, Power ME, Berger J et al (2011) Trophic downgrading of planet Earth. Science 333:301–306 DOI: 10.1126/science.1205106
11. Flinn KM, Vellend M (2005) Recovery of forest plant communities in post-agricultural landscapes. Front Ecol Environ 3:243–250 DOI: 10.1890/1540-9295(2005)003[0243:ROFPCI]2.0.CO;2
12. Foster D, Swanson F, Aber J, Burke I, Brokaw N, Tilman D, Knapp A (2003) The importance of land-use legacies to ecology and conservation. Bioscience 53:77–88 DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2003)053[0077:TIOLUL]2.0.CO;2
13. Gleason HA (1917) The structure and development of plant association. Bull Torrey Bot Club 53:7–26 DOI: 10.2307/2479933
14. Grman E, Suding KN (2010) Within-year soil legacies contribute to strong priority effects of exotics on native California grassland communities. Restor Ecol 18:664–670 DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2008.00497.x
15. Harding JS, Benfield EF, Bolstad PV, Helfman GS, Jones EBD III (1998) Stream biodiversity: the ghost of land use past. Proc Nat Acad Sci 95:14843–14847 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.25.14843
16. Hastings A, Byers JE, Crooks JA, Cuddington K, Jones CG, Lambrinos JG, Talley TS, Wilson WG (2007) Ecosystem engineering in space and time. Ecol Lett 10:153–164 DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2006.00997.x
17. Heneghan L, Fatemi F, Umek L, Grady K, Fagen K, Workman M (2006) The invasive shrub European buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica, L.) alters soil properties in midwestern U.S. woodlands. Appl Soil Ecol 32:142–148 DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2005.03.009
18. Huntzinger M, Karban R, Maron JL (2011) Small mammals cause non-trophic effects on habitat and associated snails in a native system. Oecologia 167:1085–1091 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-2054-5
19. Jordan NR, Larson DL, Huerd SC (2011) Evidence of qualitative differences between soil-occupancy effects of invasive vs. native grassland plant species. Invas Plant Sci Manage 4:11–21 DOI: 10.1614/IPSM-D-10-00004.1
20. Kardol P, Cornips NJ, van Kempen MML, Bakx-Schotman JMT, van der Pitten WH (2007) Microbe-mediated plant-soil feedback causes historical contingency effects in plant community assembly. Ecol Monogr 77:147–162 DOI: 10.1890/06-0502
21. Kourtev PS, Ehrenfeld JG, Haggblom M (2002) Exotic plant species alter the microbial community structure and function in the soil. Ecology 83:3152–3166 DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[3152:EPSATM]2.0.CO;2
22. Laland KN, Odling-Smee FJ, Feldman MW (1996) The evolutionary consequences of niche construction. J Evol Biol 9:293–316 DOI: 10.1046/j.1420-9101.1996.9030293.x
23. Laland KN, Odling-Smee FJ, Feldman MW (1999) Evolutionary consequences of niche construction and their implications for ecology. Proc Nat Acad Sci 96:10242–10247 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.18.10242
24. Lehmann L (2007) The evolution of trans-generational altruism: kin selection meets niche construction. J Evol Biol 20:181–189 DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2006.01202.x
25. Lehmann L (2008) The adaptive dynamics of niche constructing traits in spatially subdivided populations: evolving posthumous extended phenotypes. Evolution 62:549–566 DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00291.x
26. Lett MS, Knapp AK (2005) Woody plant encroachment and removal in mesic grassland: production and composition responses of herbaceous vegetation. Am Midl Nat 153:217–231 DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(2005)153[0217:WPEARI]2.0.CO;2
27. Mack MC, D’Antonio CM (2003) Exotic grasses alter controls over soil nitrogen dynamics in a Hawaiian woodland. Ecol Appl 13:154–166 DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2003)013[0154:EGACOS]2.0.CO;2
28. Martin SL, Hayes DB, Rutledge DT, Hyndman DW (2011) The land-use legacy effect: adding temporal context to lake chemistry. Limnol Oceanogr 56:2363–2370 DOI: 10.4319/lo.2011.56.6.2362
29. McLauchlan K (2006) The nature and longevity of agricultural impacts on soil carbon and nutrients: a review. Ecosystems 9:1364–1382 DOI: 10.1007/s10021-005-0135-1
30. Molina R, Amaranthus M (1991) Rhizosphere biology: ecological linkages between soil processes, plant growth, and community dynamics. US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Intermountain Research Station, General Technical Report 280
31. Mullineaux LS, Micheli F, Peterson CH, Lenihan HS, Markus N (2009) Imprint of past environmental regimes on structure and succession of a deep-sea hydrothermal vent community. Oecologia 161:387–400 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-009-1390-1
32. Nuttle T, Yerger EH, Stoleson SH, Ristau TE (2011) Legacy of top-down herbivore pressure ricochets back up multiple trophic levels in forest canopies over 30 years. Ecosphere 2(1):Article 4
33. Odling-Smee FJ, Laland KN (2012) Ecological inheritance and cultural inheritance: what are they and how do they differ? Biol Theory 6. doi:10.1007/s13752-012-0030-x DOI: 10.1007/s13752-012-0030-x
34. Olding-Smee FJ (1988) Niche-constructing phenotypes. In: Plotkin H (ed) The role of behavior in evolution. MIT Press, Cambridge, pp 73–132
35. Orr SP, Rudgers JA, Clay K (2005) Invasive plants can inhibit native tree seedlings: testing potential allelopathic mechanisms. Plant Ecol 181:153–165 DOI: 10.1007/s11258-005-5698-6
36. Perry DA (1994) Forest ecosystems. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
37. Perry DA, Oren R, Hart SC (2008) Forest ecosystems, 2nd edn. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
38. Pregitzer C, Bailey J, Hart S, Schweitzer J (2010) Soils as agents of selection: feedbacks between plants and soils alter seedling survival and performance. Evol Ecol 24:1045–1059 DOI: 10.1007/s10682-010-9363-8
39. Sharrow SH (2007) Soil compaction by grazing livestock in silvopastures as evidenced by changes in soil physical properties. Agroforest Sys 71:215–223 DOI: 10.1007/s10457-007-9083-4
40. Simard SW (1995) Interspecific carbon transfer in ectomycorrhizal tree species mixtures. PhD dissertation, Department of Forest Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis
41. van de Voorde TFJ, van der Putten WH, Bezemer TM (2011) Intra- and interspecific plant–soil interactions, soil legacies and priority effects during old-field succession. J Ecol 99:945–953 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01815.x
42. Wang B, Qiu Y-L (2006) Phylogenetic distribution and evolution of mycorrhizas in land plants. Mycorrhiza 16:299–363 DOI: 10.1007/s00572-005-0033-6