Herbivory and nutrients shape grassland soil seed banks

• Autores: Eskelinen, Anu; Jessen, Maria Theresa; Bahamonde, Hector Alejandro; Bakker, Jonathan D.; Borer, Elizabeth T.; Caldeira, Maria C.; Harpole, William Stanley; Jia, Meiyu; Lannes, Luciola S.; Nogueira, Carla; Venterink, Harry Olde; Peri, Pablo Luis; Porath-Krause, Anita J.; Seabloom, Eric William; Schroeder, Katie; Tognetti, Pedro Maximiliano; Yasui, Simone-Louise E.; Virtanen, Risto; Sullivan, Lauren L.
• Año de publicación: 2023
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Fuente: Nature Communications 14 : 3949. (July 2023)
• Materia: Grasslands; Herbivory; Nutrients; Species Diversity; Plant Communities; Climatic Factors; Species Richness; Praderas; Herbivoría; Nutrientes; Diversidad de Especies; Comunidades Vegetales; Factores Climáticos; Riqueza de Especies; Seed Banks; Banco de Semillas
• Institución: Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria

Anthropogenic nutrient enrichment and shifts in herbivory can lead to dramatic changes in the composition and diversity of aboveground plant communities. In turn, this can alter seed banks in the soil, which are cryptic reservoirs of plant diversity. Here, we use data from seven Nutrient Network grassland sites on four continents, encompassing a range of climatic and environmental conditions, to test the joint effects of fertilization and aboveground mammalian herbivory on seed banks and on the similarity between aboveground plant communities and seed banks. We find that fertilization decreases plant species richness and diversity in seed banks, and homogenizes composition between aboveground and seed bank communities. Fertilization increases seed bank abundance especially in the presence of herbivores, while this effect is smaller in the absence of herbivores. Our findings highlight that nutrient enrichment can weaken a diversity maintaining mechanism in grasslands, and that herbivory needs to be considered when assessing nutrient enrichment effects on seed bank abundance.
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Fil: Eskelinen, Anu. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research; Alemania
Fil: Eskelinen, Anu. Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research. Department of Physiological Diversity; Alemania
Fil: Eskelinen, Anu. University of Oulu. Ecology & Genetics; Finlandia
Fil: Jessen, Maria Theresa. Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research. Department of Physiological Diversity; Alemania
Fil: Jessen, Maria Theresa. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research; Alemania
Fil: Jessen, Maria Theresa. Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ. Department of Community Ecology; Alemania
Fil: Bahamonde, Hector Alejandro. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Ciencias Agrarias y Forestales; Argentina.
Fil: Bakker, Jonathan D. University of Washington. School of Environmental and Forest Sciences; Estados Unidos
Fil: Borer, Elizabeth T. University of Minnesota. Department of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior; Estados Unidos
Fil: Caldeira, Maria C. University of Lisbon. Forest Research Centre. Associate Laboratory TERRA. School of Agriculture; Portugal.
Fil: Harpole, William Stanley. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv); Alemania
Fil: Harpole, William Stanley. Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ. Department of Community Ecology; Alemania
Fil: Harpole, William Stanley. Martin Luther University. Institute of Biology; Alemania
Fil: Jia, Meiyu. University of Washington. School of Environmental and Forest Sciences; Estados Unidos
Fil: Jia, Meiyu. East China University of Technology. School of Water Resources & Environmental Engineering; China.
Fil: Jia, Meiyu. Beijing Normal University. College of Life Sciences; China.
Fil: Lannes, Luciola S. São Paulo State University-UNESP. Department of Biology and Animal Sciences; Brasil.
Fil: Nogueira, Carla. University of Lisbon. Forest Research Centre. Associate Laboratory TERRA. School of Agriculture; Portugal.
Fil: Venterink, Harry Olde. Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Department of Biology; Bélgica
Fil: Peri, Pablo Luis. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Santa Cruz; Argentina.
Fil: Peri, Pablo Luis. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral; Argentina.
Fil: Peri, Pablo Luis. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina.
Fil: Porath-Krause, Anita J. University of Minnesota. Department of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior; Estados Unidos
Fil: Seabloom, Eric William. University of Minnesota. Department of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior; Estados Unidos
Fil: Schroeder, Katie. University of Minnesota. Department of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior; Estados Unidos
Fil: Schroeder, Katie. University of Georgia. Odum School of Ecology; Estados Unidos
Fil: Tognetti, Pedro M. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía; Argentina.
Fil: Tognetti, Pedro M. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA); Argentina.
Fil: Tognetti, Pedro M. Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL; Suiza
Fil: Yasui, Simone-Louise E. Queensland University of Technology. School of Biological and Environmental Sciences; Australia.
Fil: Virtanen, Risto. University of Oulu. Ecology & Genetics; Finlandia
Fil: Sullivan, Lauren L. University of Missouri. Division of Biological Sciences; Estados Unidos
Fil: Sullivan, Lauren L. Michigan State University. Department of Plant Biology; Estados Unidos
Fil: Sullivan, Lauren L. Michigan State University. W. K. Kellogg Biological Station; Estados Unidos
Fil: Sullivan, Lauren L. Michigan State University. Ecology, Evolution and Behavior Program; Estados Unidos