The role of plant litter in driving plant-soil feedbacks

GF Veen, EL Fry, FC Ten Hooven, P Kardol… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Most studies focusing on plant-soil feedbacks (PSFs) have considered direct interactions
between plants, abiotic conditions (eg, soil nutrients) and rhizosphere communities (eg …

Invasion drives plant diversity loss through competition and ecosystem modification

M Carboni, SW Livingstone, ME Isaac… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Although invasive plants increasingly contribute to the current biodiversity crisis, the
mechanisms through which they impact native communities are still poorly understood …

Plant litter influences the temporal stability of plant community biomass in an alpine meadow by altering the stability and asynchrony of plant functional groups

Z Ma, Y Zeng, J Wu, Q Zhou, F Hou - Functional Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The stability of a plant community is defined as its ability to resist and be resilient to changes.
Plant community stability can be driven by a range of external perturbations as well as by …

Different functional characteristics can explain different dimensions of plant invasion success

H Liao, RW Pal, Ü Niinemets, M Bahn… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The success of invasive plant species can be evaluated using different dimensions, such as,
range size, abundance and impact. These different dimensions do not always covary but are …

Managing medusahead using dormant season grazing in the Northern Great Basin

WJ Price, A Hulet, KS Jensen, EK Strand… - Rangeland Ecology & …, 2023 - Elsevier
The invasive annual grass, medusahead, infests rangelands throughout the West, from the
Columbia Plateau to the California Annual Grasslands and the Great Basin. Dominating …

Plant and microbial impacts of an invasive species vary across an environmental gradient

EC Farrer, C Birnbaum, P Waryszak… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Invasive plants often successfully occupy large areas encompassing broad environmental
gradients in their invaded range, yet how invader dominance and effects on ecological …

Grazing history effects on rangeland biomass, cover and diversity responses to fire and grazing utilization

LT Vermeire, DJ Strong, RC Waterman - Rangeland Ecology & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Exclusion of large grazers from rangelands that evolved with significant grazing pressure
can alter natural processes and may have legacy effects by changing magnitude or direction …

The effectiveness of weed control in a threatened plant community: A grassland case study

BJ Farmilo, C Moxham - Ecological Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Habitat loss due to altered land use has resulted in the fragmentation of remnant grasslands,
resulting in an increase in the edge to area ratio and a subsequent rise in the risk of weed …

Mechanisms of influence of invasive grass litter on germination and growth of coexisting species in California

BM Chen, CM D'Antonio, N Molinari, SL Peng - Biological Invasions, 2018 - Springer
In grasslands, litter has been recognized as an important factor promoting grass persistence
and the suppression of forbs. The invasive European annual grass Bromus diandrus (ripgut …

Rhizosphere and litter feedbacks to range‐expanding plant species and related natives

M Manrubia, WH van der Putten, C Weser… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Plant–soil feedback (PSF) results from the net legacy effect that plants leave in the
composition of soil communities and abiotic soil properties. PSF is induced by the …