No evidence of facilitation collapse in the Tibetan plateau

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 233-242

  Pugnaire, Francisco I ^a   Zhang, Lin ^b   Li, Ruicheng ^b   Luo, Tianxiang ^b  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Competition; Environmental stress; Facilitation; Interaction intensity; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FACILITATION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIMITING FACTOR; NICHE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

ANDROSACE TAPETE;

EID: 84922690626     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: 16541103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12233     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Anthelme, F., Buendia, B., Mazoyer, C. & Dangles, O. 2012. Unexpected mechanisms sustain the stress gradient hypothesis in a tropical alpine environment. Journal of Vegetation Science 23: 62-72.
2. Armas, C., Ordiales, R. & Pugnaire, F.I. 2004. Measuring plant interactions: an index comparison and a proposal. Ecology 85: 2682-2686.
3. Armas, C., Rodríguez-Echeverría, S. & Pugnaire, F.I. 2011. A field test of the stress-gradient hypothesis along an aridity gradient. Journal of Vegetation Science 22: 818-827.
4. Arroyo, M.T.K., Cavieres, L.A., Peñaloza, A. & Arroyo-Kalin, M. 2003. Positive association between the cushion plant Azorella monantha (Apiaceae) and alpine plant species in the Chilean Patagonian Andes. Plant Ecology 169: 121-129.
5. Aubert, S., Boucher, F., Lavergne, S., Renaud, J. & Choler, P. 2014. 1914-2014: a revised worldwide catalogue of cushion plants 100 years after Hauri and Schröter. Alpine Botany 124: 59-70.
6. Bertness, M.D. & Callaway, R.M. 1994. Positive interactions in communities. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 9: 191-193.
7. Brooker, R.W., Maestre, F.T., Callaway, R.M., Lortie, C.J., Cavieres, L.A., Kunstler, G., Liancourt, P., Tielbörger, K., Travis, J.M.J., & Michalet, R. 2008. Facilitation in plant communities: The past, the present, and the future. Journal of Ecology 96: 18-34.
8. Bruno, J.F., Stachowicz, J.J. & Bertness, M.D. 2003. Inclusion of facilitation into ecological theory. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 18: 119-125.
9. Callaway, R.M. 2007. Positive interactions and interdependence in plant communities. Springer, Dordrecht, NL.
10. Callaway, R.M., Brooker, R.W., Choler, P., Kikvidze, Z., Lortie, C.J., Michalet, R., Paolini, L., Pugnaire, F.I., Newingham, B., & Cook, B.J. 2002. Positive interactions among alpine plants increase with stress. Nature 417: 844-848.
11. Carter, G.A., Smith, W.K. & Hadley, J.L. 1988. Stomatal conductance in three conifer species at different elevations during summer in Wyoming. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 18: 232-246.
12. Cavieres, L.A. & Badano, E.I. 2009. Do facilitative interactions increase species richness at the entire community level? Journal of Ecology 97: 1181-1191.
13. Cavieres, L.A., Peñaloza, A. & Arroyo, M.T.K. 2000. Altitudinal vegetation belts in the high Andes of central Chile (33°S). Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 73: 331-344.
14. Cavieres, L.A., Badano, E.I., Sierra-Almeida, A., Gómez-González, S. & Molina-Montenegro, M.A. 2006. Positive interactions between alpine plant species and the nurse cushion plant Laretia acaulis do not increase with elevation in the Andes of central Chile. New Phytologist 169: 59-69.
15. Cavieres, L.A., Badano, E.I., Sierra-Almeida, A. & Molina-Montenegro, M. 2007. Microclimatic modifications of cushion plants and their consequences for seedling survival of native and non-native plants in the high-Andes of central Chile. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 39: 229-236.
16. Cavieres, L., Brooker, R.W., Butterfield, B., Cook, B., Kikvidze, Z., Lortie, C.J., Michalet, R., Pugnaire, F.I., Schöb, C., & Callaway, R.M. 2014. Facilitative plant interactions and climate simultaneously drive alpine plant diversity. Ecology Letters 17: 193-202.
17. Chen, Y.Y., Yang, K., He, J., Qin, J., Shi, J.C., Du, J.Y. & He, Q. 2011. Improving land surface temperature modeling for dry land of China. Journal of Geophysical Research 116: D20104.
18. Di Rienzo, J.A., Casanoves, F., Balzarini, M.G., Gonzalez, L., Tablada, M. & Robledo, C.W. 2008. InfoStat, v 2008. Grupo InfoStat, FCA, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, AR.
19. Ellison, A.M., Bank, M.S., Clinton, B.D., Colburn, E.A., Elliott, K., Ford, C.R., Foster, D.R., Kloeppel, B.D., Knoepp, J.D., & Webster, J.R. 2005. Loss of foundation species: consequences for the structure and dynamics of forested ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3: 479-486.
20. Fajardo, A., Quiroz, C.L. & Cavieres, L.A. 2008. Spatial patterns in cushion-dominated plant communities of the high Andes of central Chile. Journal of Vegetation Science 19: 87-96.
21. Geng, Y.P., Tang, S.Q., Tashi, T.R., Song, Z.P., Zhang, G.R., Zeng, L.Y., Zhao, J.Y., Wang, L., Shi, J., Chen, J.K. & Zhong, Y. 2009. Fine- and landscape-scale spatial genetic structure of cushion rockjasmine, Androsace tapete (Primulaceae), across southern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Genetica 135: 419-427.
22. Harris, R.B. 2010. Rangeland degradation on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau: a review of the evidence of its magnitude and causes. Journal of Arid Environments 74: 1-12.
23. He, Q. & Bertness, M.D. 2014. Extreme stresses, niches and positive species interactions along stress gradients. Ecology 95: 1437-1443.
24. He, Q., Bertness, M.D. & Altieri, A.H. 2013. Global shifts towards positive species interactions with increasing environmental stress. Ecology Letters 16: 695-706.
25. Holmgren, M., Scheffer, M. & Huston, M.A. 1997. The interplay of facilitation and competition in plant communities. Ecology 78: 1966-1975.
26. Kikvidze, Z., Michalet, R., Brooker, R.W., Cavieres, L.A., Lortie, C.J., Pugnaire, F.I. & Callaway, R.M. 2011. Climatic drivers of plant-plant interactions and diversity in alpine communities. Alpine Botany 121: 63-70.
27. Körner, C. 2003. Alpine plant life. Springer, London, UK.
28. Li, B.S., Wang, J.T. & Li, S.Y. 1985. The alpine cushion vegetation of Xizang. Acta Botanica Sinica 27: 311-317.
29. Li, B.S., Zhang, J.W., Wang, J.T. & Chen, W.L. 1987. The floristic features and geographic distribution of the cushion plant in Xizang. Mountain Research 5: 14-20.
30. Li, R., Luo, T., Tang, Y., Du, M. & Zhang, X. 2013. The altitudinal distribution center of a widespread cushion species is related to an optimum combination of temperature and precipitation in the central Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Arid Environments 88: 70-77.
31. Lortie, C.J. & Callaway, R.M. 2006. Re-analysis of meta-analysis: support for the stress-gradient hypothesis. Journal of Ecology 94: 7-16.
32. Maestre, F.T., Valladares, F. & Reynolds, J.F. 2005. Is the change of plant-plant interactions with abiotic stress predictable? A meta-analysis of field results in arid environments. Journal of Ecology 93: 748-757.
33. Maestre, F.T., Callaway, R.M., Valladares, F. & Lortie, C.J. 2009. Refining the stress-gradient hypothesis for competition and facilitation in plant communities. Journal of Ecology 97: 199-205.
34. Malkinson, D. & Tielbörger, K. 2010. What does the stress-gradient hypothesis predict? Resolving the discrepancies. Oikos 119: 1546-1552.
35. Michalet, R., Brooker, R.W., Cavieres, L.A., Kikvidze, Z., Lortie, C.J., Pugnaire, F.I., Valiente-Banuet, A. & Callaway, R.M. 2006. Do biotic interactions shape both sides of the humped-back model of species richness in plant communities? Ecology Letters 9: 767-773.
36. Michalet, R., Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Y., Maalouf, J.P. & Lortie, C.J. 2013. Two alternatives to the stress-gradient hypothesis at the edge of life: the collapse of facilitation and the switch from facilitation to competition. Journal of Vegetation Science 25: 609-613.
37. Mod, H.K., le Roux, P.C. & Luoto, M. 2014. Outcomes of biotic interactions are dependent on multiple environmental variables. Journal of Vegetation Science 25: 1024-1032.
38. Nobel, P.S. 1991. Physicochemical and environmental plant physiology. Academic Press, San Diego, CA, US.
39. Núñez, C., Aizen, M. & Ezcurra, C. 1999. Species associations and nurse plant effects in patches of high-Andean vegetation. Journal of Vegetation Science 10: 357-364.
40. Prieto, I., Kikvidze, Z. & Pugnaire, F.I. 2010. Hydraulic lift: soil processes and transpiration in the Mediterranean leguminous shrub Retama sphaerocarpa (L.) Boiss. Plant and Soil 329: 447-456.
41. Pugnaire, F.I. & Luque, M.T. 2001. Changes in plant interactions along a gradient of environmental stress. Oikos 93: 42-49.
42. Pugnaire, F.I., Armas, C. & Valladares, F. 2004. Soil as a mediator in plant-plant interactions in a semi-arid community. Journal of Vegetation Science 15: 85-92.
43. Schöb, C., Butterfield, B.J. & Pugnaire, F.I. 2012. Foundation species and trait-based community assembly. New Phytologist 196: 824-834.
44. Schöb, C., Armas, A., Guler, M., Prieto, I. & Pugnaire, F.I. 2013. Variability in functional traits mediates plant interactions along stress gradients. Journal of Ecology 101: 753-762.
45. Soliveres, S. & Maestre, F.T. 2014. Plant-plant interactions, environmental gradients and plant diversity: a global synthesis of community-level studies. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 16: 154-163.
46. The Commitee of Flora of China of Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2004. Flora of China. Science Press, Beijing.
47. Tielbörger, K. & Kadmon, R. 2000. Temporal environmental variation tips the balance between facilitation and interference in desert plants. Ecology 81: 1544-1553.
48. Wang, Z., Luo, T., Li, R., Tang, Y. & Du, M. 2013. Causes for the unimodal pattern of biomass and productivity in alpine grasslands along a large altitudinal gradient in semi-arid regions. Journal of Vegetation Science 24: 189-201.
49. Xue, X., Guo, J., Han, B., Sun, Q. & Liu, L. 2009. The effect of climate warming and permafrost thaw on desertification in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Geomorphology 108: 182-190.
50. Yang, K., He, J., Tang, W.J., Qin, J. & Cheng, C.C.K. 2010. On downward shortwave and longwave radiation over high altitude regions: observation and modeling in the Tibetan Plateau. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 150: 38-46.
51. Zeng, L.Y., Xu, L.L., Tang, S.Q., Tersing, T., Geng, Y.P. & Zhong, Y. 2010. Effect of sampling strategy on estimation of fine-scale spatial genetic structure in Androsace tapete (Primulaceae), an alpine plant endemic to Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 48: 257-264.
52. Zou, C.B., Barnes, P.W., Archer, S. & McMurtry, C.R. 2005. Soil moisture redistribution as a mechanism of facilitation in savanna tree-shrub clusters. Oecologia 145: 32-40.