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Maron JL, Lightfoot DC, Rodriguez‐Cabal MA, Collins SL, Rudgers JA. Climate mediates long‐term impacts of rodent exclusion on desert plant communities. ECOL MONOGR 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ecm.1497] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- John L. Maron
- Division of Biological Sciences University of Montana Missoula MT 59812 USA
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- Museum of Southwestern Biology University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131 USA
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- Grupo de Ecología de Invasiones INIBIOMA ‐ CONICET Universidad Nacional del Comahue Av. de los Pioneros 2350 CP. 8400 Bariloche, Rio Negro Argentina
- Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources University of Vermont Burlington Vermont 05405 USA
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- Department of Biology University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM 87131 USA
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Ladwig LM, Bell-Dereske LP, Bell KC, Collins SL, Natvig DO, Taylor DL. Soil fungal composition changes with shrub encroachment in the northern Chihuahuan Desert. FUNGAL ECOL 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2021.101096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Pérez Castro S, Cleland EE, Wagner R, Sawad RA, Lipson DA. Soil microbial responses to drought and exotic plants shift carbon metabolism. THE ISME JOURNAL 2019; 13:1776-1787. [PMID: 30872806 PMCID: PMC6776022 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-019-0389-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2017] [Revised: 06/29/2018] [Accepted: 02/05/2019] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Significant gaps in our understanding of how global change drivers interact to affect the resistance and functioning of microbial communities hinders our ability to model ecosystem responses and feedbacks to co-occurring global stressors. Here, we investigated the effects of extreme drought and exotic plants, two of the most significant threats to Mediterranean-type ecosystems, on soil microbial community composition and carbon metabolic genes within a four-year field rainfall manipulation experiment. We combined measurements of bulk microbial and soil properties with high-throughput microbial community analyses to elucidate microbial responses and microbial-mediated alterations to carbon cycling. While microbial responses to experimental droughts were weak, scant rainfall periods resulted in decreased microbial biomass and activity, and relative abundances of bacterial groups such as Proteobacteria, Verrucomicrobia, and Acidobacteria decreased concomitantly with increases in Actinobacteria, Chloroflexi, and Firmicutes abundance. Soils under exotic plants had increased temperatures, enhanced infiltration during rainfall events, and decreased water retention and labile carbon in comparison to soils under native plants. Higher peaks and more seasonally variable microbial activity were found under exotic plants and, like drought periods, the microbial community shifted towards osmotic stress life-strategies. Relationships found between microbial taxonomic groups and carbon metabolic genes support the interpretation that exotic plants change microbial carbon cycling by altering the soil microclimate and supplying easily decomposed high-quality litter. Soil microbial community responses to drought and exotic plants could potentially impact ecosystem C storage by producing a smaller, more vulnerable C pool of microbial biomass that is prone to increased pulses of heterotrophic respiration.
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- Sherlynette Pérez Castro
- Biology Department, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA, 92182-4614, USA.
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- Division of Biological Sciences, Ecology, Behavior & Evolution Section, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr. #0116, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0116, USA
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- Biology Department, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA, 92182-4614, USA
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- Biology Department, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA, 92182-4614, USA
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- Biology Department, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA, 92182-4614, USA
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Soil Hydrothermal Characteristics among Three Typical Vegetation Types: An Eco-Hydrological Analysis in the Qilian Mountains, China. WATER 2019. [DOI: 10.3390/w11061277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Soil moisture is a central theme in eco-hydrology. Topography, soil characteristics, and vegetation types are significant factors impacting soil moisture dynamics. However, water loss (evapotranspiration and leakage) and its factors of the self-organized vegetation pattern are not clear, which has significant ecologic functions and contributes to different hydrological ecosystem services. From an eco-hydrological point of view, we relied on the observation of rainfall, soil moisture, and soil temperature in the growing season of a drought year to compare soil moisture and temperature dynamics in terms of frequency/probability distribution and water loss among three typical vegetation types in the Qilian Mountains, China. The results indicated that shrubland (the semi-shaded slope) had the highest average soil moisture at the surface soil (0–40 cm) and soil profile during the growing season, while grassland (the south-facing slope) had the lowest daily average soil moisture and highest daily average soil temperature at the surface soil and soil profile. Spruce forest (the shaded slope) had the lowest daily average soil temperature at the surface soil and soil profile (p < 0.001). Water loss among the three vegetation types has a clear positive relationship with soil water content and a negative relationship with soil temperature. The values of water loss between values of water loss at the wilting point and maximum evapotranspiration point tend to occur in wetter soil moisture under the spruce forest and shrubland, whereas that of grassland emerges in drier soil moisture. The spruce forest and shrubland experienced higher water loss than the grassland. Although the spruce forest and shrubland had a better capacity to retain soil water, they also consumed more soil water than the grassland. Soil moisture may be the main factor controlling the difference in water loss among the three vegetation types. These findings may contribute to improving our understanding of the relationship between the soil moisture dynamics and vegetation pattern, and may offer basic insights for ecosystem management for upstream water-controlled mountainous areas.
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Chung YA, Collins SL, Rudgers JA. Connecting plant–soil feedbacks to long‐term stability in a desert grassland. Ecology 2019; 100:e02756. [DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2019] [Revised: 03/26/2019] [Accepted: 04/17/2019] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Y. Anny Chung
- Department of Biology University of New Mexico Albuquerque New Mexico USA
- Departments of Plant Biology and Plant Pathology University of Georgia Athens Georgia 30602 USA
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- Department of Biology University of New Mexico Albuquerque New Mexico USA
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Mayor AG, Bautista S, Rodriguez F, Kéfi S. Connectivity-Mediated Ecohydrological Feedbacks and Regime Shifts in Drylands. Ecosystems 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s10021-019-00366-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Grass-Shrub Competition in Arid Lands: An Overlooked Driver in Grassland–Shrubland State Transition? Ecosystems 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s10021-018-0290-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Wertin TM, Young K, Reed SC. Spatially explicit patterns in a dryland's soil respiration and relationships with climate, whole plant photosynthesis and soil fertility. OIKOS 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/oik.04935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Timothy M. Wertin
- US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center; Moab UT USA
- Carl R. Woese Inst. for Genomic Biology; Univ. of Illinois; 1206 W. Gregory Drive Urbana IL 61801 USA
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- US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center; Moab UT USA
- School of Forestry; Northern Arizona Univ.; Flagstaff 86011 USA
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- US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center; Moab UT USA
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Rudgers JA, Chung YA, Maurer GE, Moore DI, Muldavin EH, Litvak ME, Collins SL. Climate sensitivity functions and net primary production: A framework for incorporating climate mean and variability. Ecology 2018; 99:576-582. [DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2017] [Revised: 11/21/2017] [Accepted: 12/13/2017] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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- Jennifer A. Rudgers
- Department of Biology; MSC03-2020; University of New Mexico; Albuquerque New Mexico 87131 USA
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- Department of Biology; MSC03-2020; University of New Mexico; Albuquerque New Mexico 87131 USA
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- Department of Biology; MSC03-2020; University of New Mexico; Albuquerque New Mexico 87131 USA
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- Department of Biology; MSC03-2020; University of New Mexico; Albuquerque New Mexico 87131 USA
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- Department of Biology; MSC03-2020; University of New Mexico; Albuquerque New Mexico 87131 USA
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- Department of Biology; MSC03-2020; University of New Mexico; Albuquerque New Mexico 87131 USA
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- Department of Biology; MSC03-2020; University of New Mexico; Albuquerque New Mexico 87131 USA
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Campanella MV, Rostagno CM, Videla LS, Bisigato AJ. Land degradation affects shrub growth responses to precipitation in a semiarid rangeland of north-eastern Patagonia (Argentina). AUSTRAL ECOL 2017. [DOI: 10.1111/aec.12563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- María Victoria Campanella
- Instituto Patagónico para el Estudio de los Ecosistemas Continentales; IPEEC-CONICET; Boulevard Brown 2915 9120 Puerto Madryn Chubut Argentina
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- Instituto Patagónico para el Estudio de los Ecosistemas Continentales; IPEEC-CONICET; Boulevard Brown 2915 9120 Puerto Madryn Chubut Argentina
- Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco; Puerto Madryn Chubut Argentina
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- Instituto Patagónico para el Estudio de los Ecosistemas Continentales; IPEEC-CONICET; Boulevard Brown 2915 9120 Puerto Madryn Chubut Argentina
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- Instituto Patagónico para el Estudio de los Ecosistemas Continentales; IPEEC-CONICET; Boulevard Brown 2915 9120 Puerto Madryn Chubut Argentina
- Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco; Puerto Madryn Chubut Argentina
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Collins SL, Ladwig LM, Petrie MD, Jones SK, Mulhouse JM, Thibault JR, Pockman WT. Press-pulse interactions: effects of warming, N deposition, altered winter precipitation, and fire on desert grassland community structure and dynamics. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 2017; 23:1095-1108. [PMID: 27612326 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2015] [Revised: 08/24/2016] [Accepted: 08/27/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Global environmental change is altering temperature, precipitation patterns, resource availability, and disturbance regimes. Theory predicts that ecological presses will interact with pulse events to alter ecosystem structure and function. In 2006, we established a long-term, multifactor global change experiment to determine the interactive effects of nighttime warming, increased atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition, and increased winter precipitation on plant community structure and aboveground net primary production (ANPP) in a northern Chihuahuan Desert grassland. In 2009, a lightning-caused wildfire burned through the experiment. Here, we report on the interactive effects of these global change drivers on pre- and postfire grassland community structure and ANPP. Our nighttime warming treatment increased winter nighttime air temperatures by an average of 1.1 °C and summer nighttime air temperature by 1.5 °C. Soil N availability was 2.5 times higher in fertilized compared with control plots. Average soil volumetric water content (VWC) in winter was slightly but significantly higher (13.0% vs. 11.0%) in plots receiving added winter rain relative to controls, and VWC was slightly higher in warmed (14.5%) compared with control (13.5%) plots during the growing season even though surface soil temperatures were significantly higher in warmed plots. Despite these significant treatment effects, ANPP and plant community structure were highly resistant to these global change drivers prior to the fire. Burning reduced the cover of the dominant grasses by more than 75%. Following the fire, forb species richness and biomass increased significantly, particularly in warmed, fertilized plots that received additional winter precipitation. Thus, although unburned grassland showed little initial response to multiple ecological presses, our results demonstrate how a single pulse disturbance can interact with chronic alterations in resource availability to increase ecosystem sensitivity to multiple drivers of global environmental change.
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- Scott L Collins
- Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, MSC03-2020, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA
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- Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, 430 Lincoln Drive, 545 Birge Hall, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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- Department of Botany, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 82071, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, MSC03-2020, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, MSC03-2020, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, MSC03-2020, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, MSC03-2020, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA
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Ladwig LM, Sinsabaugh RL, Collins SL, Thomey ML. Soil enzyme responses to varying rainfall regimes in Chihuahuan Desert soils. Ecosphere 2015. [DOI: 10.1890/es14-00258.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Collins SL, Xia Y. Long-Term Dynamics and Hotspots of Change in a Desert Grassland Plant Community. Am Nat 2015; 185:E30-43. [DOI: 10.1086/679315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Collins S, Belnap J, Grimm N, Rudgers J, Dahm C, D'Odorico P, Litvak M, Natvig D, Peters D, Pockman W, Sinsabaugh R, Wolf B. A Multiscale, Hierarchical Model of Pulse Dynamics in Arid-Land Ecosystems. ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS 2014. [DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-120213-091650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- S.L. Collins
- Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131;
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- US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, Utah 84532
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- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287
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- Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131;
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- Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131;
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904
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- Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131;
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- Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131;
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- USDA Jornada Experimental Range, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico 88012
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- Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131;
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- Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131;
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- Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131;
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Thomey ML, Collins SL, Friggens MT, Brown RF, Pockman WT. Effects of monsoon precipitation variability on the physiological response of two dominant C₄ grasses across a semiarid ecotone. Oecologia 2014; 176:751-62. [PMID: 25164491 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-014-3052-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2013] [Accepted: 08/14/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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For the southwestern United States, climate models project an increase in extreme precipitation events and prolonged dry periods. While most studies emphasize plant functional type response to precipitation variability, it is also important to understand the physiological characteristics of dominant plant species that define plant community composition and, in part, regulate ecosystem response to climate change. We utilized rainout shelters to alter the magnitude and frequency of rainfall and measured the physiological response of the dominant C4 grasses, Bouteloua eriopoda and Bouteloua gracilis. We hypothesized that: (1) the more drought-adapted B. eriopoda would exhibit faster recovery and higher rates of leaf-level photosynthesis (A(net)) than B. gracilis, (2) A(net) would be greater under the higher average soil water content in plots receiving 30-mm rainfall events, (3) co-dominance of B. eriopoda and B. gracilis in the ecotone would lead to intra-specific differences from the performance of each species at the site where it was dominant. Throughout the study, soil moisture explained 40-70% of the variation in A(net). Consequently, differences in rainfall treatments were not evident from intra-specific physiological function without sufficient divergence in soil moisture. Under low frequency, larger rainfall events B. gracilis exhibited improved water status and longer periods of C gain than B. eriopoda. Results from this study indicate that less frequent and larger rainfall events could provide a competitive advantage to B. gracilis and influence species composition across this arid-semiarid grassland ecotone.
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- Michell L Thomey
- Department of Biology MSC03-2020, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA,
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Pueyo Y, Moret-Fernández D, Saiz H, Bueno CG, Alados CL. Relationships Between Plant Spatial Patterns, Water Infiltration Capacity, and Plant Community Composition in Semi-arid Mediterranean Ecosystems Along Stress Gradients. Ecosystems 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/s10021-012-9620-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Burnett SA, Hattey JA, Johnson JE, Swann AL, Moore DI, Collins SL. Effects of fire on belowground biomass in Chihuahuan desert grassland. Ecosphere 2012. [DOI: 10.1890/es12-00248.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Alvarez LJ, Epstein HE, Li J, Okin GS. Aeolian process effects on vegetation communities in an arid grassland ecosystem. Ecol Evol 2012; 2:809-21. [PMID: 22837828 PMCID: PMC3399202 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2011] [Revised: 12/10/2011] [Accepted: 12/19/2011] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Many arid grassland communities are changing from grass dominance to shrub dominance, but the mechanisms involved in this conversion process are not completely understood. Aeolian processes likely contribute to this conversion from grassland to shrubland. The purpose of this research is to provide information regarding how vegetation changes occur in an arid grassland as a result of aeolian sediment transport. The experimental design included three treatment blocks, each with a 25 × 50 m area where all grasses, semi-shrubs, and perennial forbs were hand removed, a 25 × 50 m control area with no manipulation of vegetation cover, and two 10 × 25 m plots immediately downwind of the grass-removal and control areas in the prevailing wind direction, 19° north of east, for measuring vegetation cover. Aeolian sediment flux, soil nutrients, and soil seed bank were monitored on each treatment area and downwind plot. Grass and shrub cover were measured on each grass-removal, control, and downwind plot along continuous line transects as well as on 5 × 10 m subplots within each downwind area over four years following grass removal. On grass-removal areas, sediment flux increased significantly, soil nutrients and seed bank were depleted, and Prosopis glandulosa shrub cover increased compared to controls. Additionally, differential changes for grass and shrub cover were observed for plots downwind of vegetation-removal and control areas. Grass cover on plots downwind of vegetation-removal areas decreased over time (2004–2007) despite above average rainfall throughout the period of observation, while grass cover increased downwind of control areas; P. glandulosa cover increased on plots downwind of vegetation-removal areas, while decreasing on plots downwind of control areas. The relationships between vegetation changes and aeolian sediment flux were significant and were best described by a logarithmic function, with decreases in grass cover and increases in shrub cover occurring with small increases in aeolian sediment flux.
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Sponseller RA, Hall SJ, Huber DP, Grimm NB, Kaye JP, Clark CM, Collins SL. Variation in monsoon precipitation drives spatial and temporal patterns of Larrea tridentata growth in the Sonoran Desert. Funct Ecol 2012. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.01979.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Herrera J, Poudel R, Nebel KA, Collins SL. Precipitation increases the abundance of some groups of root-associated fungal endophytes in a semiarid grassland. Ecosphere 2011. [DOI: 10.1890/es11-00001.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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D'Odorico P, Fuentes JD, Pockman WT, Collins SL, He Y, Medeiros JS, DeWekker S, Litvak ME. Positive feedback between microclimate and shrub encroachment in the northern Chihuahuan desert. Ecosphere 2010. [DOI: 10.1890/es10-00073.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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- Paolo D'Odorico
- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Box 400123, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4123 USA
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- Department of Meteorology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802 USA
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- Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131 USA
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- Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131 USA
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Box 400123, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4123 USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045 USA
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Box 400123, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4123 USA
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- Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131 USA
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