Beyond plant–soil feedbacks: mechanisms driving plant community shifts due to land-use legacies in post-agricultural forests

Functional Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1073-1085

  de la Peña, Eduardo ^a,b,c   Baeten, Lander ^b,c   Steel, Hanne ^d   Viaene, Nicole ^e   De Sutter, Nancy ^e   De Schrijver, An ^b   Verheyen, Kris ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE HORTOFRUTICULTURA SUBTROPICAL Y MEDITERRÁNEA LA MAYORA   (Spain)

^b Faculty of Bioscience Engineering   (Belgium)

^c Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences   (Belgium)

^d Faculty of Sciences   (Belgium)

^e INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERIES RESEARCH ILVO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

above ground below ground interactions; community assembly; diversity loss; herbivory; nitrogen; old fields; phosphorus; secondary succession; woodlands

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ASSEMBLY RULE; BIODIVERSITY; DISPERSAL; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HERBIVORY; INSECT; LAND USE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NEMATODE; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT COMMUNITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SOIL BIOTA; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; SUCCESSION; UNDERSTORY; WOODLAND;

HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 84971328541     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12672     Document Type: Article

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