Agricultural practices and biodiversity: Conservation policies for semi-natural grasslands in Europe

JR Shipley, ER Frei, A Bergamini, S Boch, T Schulz… - Current Biology, 2024‏ - cell.com
Europe's semi-natural grasslands support notably high levels of temperate biodiversity
across multiple taxonomic groups. However, these ecosystems face unique conservation …

Sick plants in grassland communities: a growth‐defense trade‐off is the main driver of fungal pathogen abundance

SL Cappelli, NA Pichon, A Kempel, E Allan - Ecology Letters, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aboveground fungal pathogens can substantially reduce biomass production in grasslands.
However, we lack a mechanistic understanding of the drivers of fungal pathogen infection …

The influence of increased precipitation and nitrogen deposition on the litter decomposition and soil microbial community structure in a semiarid grassland

ZL Li, Q Peng, YS Dong, Y Guo - Science of the Total Environment, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Litter decomposition is a major method in which nutrients are recycled, especially carbon
and nitrogen elements, in terrestrial ecosystems. However, how the responses of litter …

Linkages among leaf nutrient concentration, resorption efficiency, litter decomposition and their stoichiometry to canopy nitrogen addition and understory removal in …

JA Shah, W Liu, S Ullah, H Duan, F Shen, Y Liao… - Ecological …, 2024‏ - Springer
Background The prevalence of understory removal and anthropogenic nitrogen (N)
deposition has significantly altered the ecological processes of forest ecosystems at both …

Fast–slow traits predict competition network structure and its response to resources and enemies

C Daniel, E Allan, H Saiz, O Godoy - Ecology Letters, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Plants interact in complex networks but how network structure depends on resources,
natural enemies and species resource‐use strategy remains poorly understood. Here, we …

Nitrogen deposition stimulates decomposition via changes in the structure and function of litter food webs

R Yin, Q Liu, S Tian, A Potapov, B Zhu, K Yang… - Soil Biology and …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Nitrogen (N) deposition poses a threat to terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
globally. However, little is known concerning how the structure and function of litter fauna …

Intraspecific trait changes have large impacts on community functional composition but do not affect ecosystem function

NA Pichon, SL Cappelli, E Allan - Journal of Ecology, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Plant functional traits can provide a mechanistic understanding of community responses to
global change and of community effects on ecosystem functions. Nitrogen enrichment …

[HTML][HTML] Plant community mediated methane uptake in response to increasing nitrogen addition level in a saline-alkaline grassland by rhizospheric effects

X Chen, H Diao, S Wang, H Li, Z Wang, Y Shen… - Geoderma, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Methane (CH 4) uptake in dryland ecosystems is a pathway in mitigating atmospheric CH 4
concentrations. A number of studies have demonstrated that nitrogen availability is a key …

Cumulative nitrogen enrichment alters the drivers of grassland overyielding

M He, KE Barry, MB Soons, E Allan, SL Cappelli… - Communications …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Abstract Effects of plant diversity on grassland productivity, or overyielding, are found to be
robust to nutrient enrichment. However, the impact of cumulative nitrogen (N) addition (total …

Ecology and methodology of comparing traits and decomposition rates of green leaves versus senesced litter across plant species and types

C Guo, B Tuo, S Seibold, BL Sai, HT Qin… - Journal of …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Variation in leaf traits is critical for carbon gains and losses during leaf life and drives litter
carbon and nutrient losses via decomposition. Accurately quantifying litter decomposition …