Long term prevention of disturbance induces the collapse of a dominant species without altering ecosystem function

doi:10.1038/srep14320

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	Long term prevention of disturbance induces the collapse of a dominant species without altering ecosystem function
	Yu, Qiang 5; Wu, Honghui ; Wang, Zhengwen ; Flynn, Dan F. B.; Yang, Hao 6; Lu, Fumei 1; Smith, Melinda 5; Han, Xingguo 3
刊名	SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
	2015
卷号	5
ISSN号	2045-2322
DOI	10.1038/srep14320
文献子类	Article
英文摘要	Limitation of disturbances, such as grazing and fire, is a key tool for nature reserve management and ecological restoration. While the role of these disturbances in shaping ecosystem structure and functioning has been intensively studied, less is known about the consequences of long-term prevention of grazing and fire. Based on a 31-year study, we show that relative biomass of the dominant grass, Leymus chinensis, of grasslands in northern China declined dramatically, but only after 21 years of exclusion of fire and grazing. However, aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP) did not decline accordingly due to compensatory responses of several subdominant grass species. The decline in dominance of L. chinensis was not related to gradually changing climate during the same period, whereas experimentally imposed litter removal (simulating fire), mowing (simulating grazing), fire and moderate grazing enhanced dominance of L. chinensis significantly. Thus, our findings show that disturbances can be critical to maintain the dominance of key grass species in semiarid grassland, but that the collapse of a dominant species does not necessarily result in significant change in ANPP if there are species in the community capable of compensating for loss of a dominant.
学科主题	Multidisciplinary Sciences
出版地	BERLIN
WOS关键词	COMMUNITY STRUCTURE ; PLANT-COMMUNITIES ; INNER-MONGOLIA ; STABILITY ; DYNAMICS ; GRASSLAND ; DIVERSITY ; CLIMATE ; CONSEQUENCES ; BIODIVERSITY
WOS研究方向	Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)
语种	英语
出版者	NATURE RESEARCH
WOS记录号	WOS:000361464900001
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of China [31270476, 41203052, 31170434] ; State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.ibcas.ac.cn/handle/2S10CLM1/25970]
专题	植被与环境变化国家重点实验室
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Bot, State Key Lab Vegetat & Environm Change, Beijing 100093, Peoples R China 3.Shenzhen Baoan Qianlong Sch, Shenzhen 518131, Peoples R China 4.Flynn, Dan F. B.] Chinese Acad Sci, Northwest Inst Plateau Biol, Global Change & Alpine Ecosyst Res Lab, Xining 810008, Peoples R China 5.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Appl Ecol, State Key Lab Forest & Soil Ecol, Shenyang 110016, Peoples R China 6.Flynn, Dan F. B.] Univ Zurich, Inst Evolutionary Biol & Environm Studies, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland 7.Colorado State Univ, Dept Biol, Grad Degree Program Ecol, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Yu, Qiang,Wu, Honghui,Wang, Zhengwen,et al. Long term prevention of disturbance induces the collapse of a dominant species without altering ecosystem function[J]. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,2015,5.
APA	Yu, Qiang.,Wu, Honghui.,Wang, Zhengwen.,Flynn, Dan F. B..,Yang, Hao.,...&Han, Xingguo.(2015).Long term prevention of disturbance induces the collapse of a dominant species without altering ecosystem function.SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,5.
MLA	Yu, Qiang,et al."Long term prevention of disturbance induces the collapse of a dominant species without altering ecosystem function".SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 5(2015).