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Plant demographic and functional responses to management intensification: A long-term study in a Mediterranean rangeland
Garnier, E.; Fayolle, Adeline; Navas, M.-L. et al.
2018In Journal of Ecology, 106 (4), p. 1363-1376
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Keywords :
Mediterranean environment; France
Abstract :
[en] Understanding how functional traits, which are key for plant functioning, relate to demographic parameters of populations is central to tackle pending issues in plant ecology such as the forecast of the fate of populations and communities in a changing world, the quantification of community assembly processes or the improvement of species distribution models. We addressed this question in the case of species from a Mediterranean rangeland of southern France. Changes in species abundance in response to management intensification (fertilization and increased grazing pressure) were followed over a 28-year period. Probabilities of presence, and elasticities of the changes in the probability of space occupancy to colonization and survival, which are analogues of demographic parameters, were calculated for 53 species from the time series of abundance data using a space occupancy model. Nine quantitative traits pertaining to resource use, plant morphology, regeneration and phenology were measured on these species and related to demographic parameters. The long-term dynamics of species in response to management intensification was associated with major changes in functional traits and strategies. Changes in the probability of occurrence—analogous to population growth rate—were correlated with traits describing the fast-slow continuum of leaf functioning. The elasticity of population growth rate to colonization was significantly related to reproductive plant height and seed mass, and to a lower extent, to leaf carbon isotopic ratio. Synthesis. The functional response of species to management intensification corresponds to a shift along the second axis of a recently identified global spectrum of plant form and function, which maps, to some extent, onto the fast-slow continuum of life-history strategies. By contrast, the elasticity of colonization relates to the global spectrum axis capturing the size of organs. Seed mass contributes to this axis and is assumed to relate to one of the important traits structuring the reproductive strategy axis of life histories as well, namely net reproductive rate. While this mapping between functional and life-history traits is appealing, further tests in contrasting types of communities are required to assess its degree of generality. © 2018 The Authors. Journal of Ecology © 2018 British Ecological Society
Disciplines :
Environmental sciences & ecology
Author, co-author :
Garnier, E.;  Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CNRS – Université de Montpellier – Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier – EPHE, Montpellier Cedex 5, France
Fayolle, Adeline  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Ingénierie des biosystèmes (Biose) > Gestion des ressources forestières et des milieux naturels
Navas, M.-L.;  Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Montpellier SupAgro, CNRS – Université de Montpellier – Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier – EPHE, Montpellier Cedex 5, France
Damgaard, C.;  Bioscience, Aarhus University, Silkeborg, Denmark
Cruz, P.;  INRA-AGIR, UMR 1248, Castanet Tolosan Cedex, France
Hubert, D.;  INRA-ERCC, UMR 868, Montpellier Cedex 1, France
Richarte, J.;  Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Montpellier SupAgro, CNRS – Université de Montpellier – Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier – EPHE, Montpellier Cedex 5, France
Autran, P.;  INRA, Unité expérimentale de La Fage, Roquefort sur Soulzon, France
Leurent, C.;  Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CNRS – Université de Montpellier – Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier – EPHE, Montpellier Cedex 5, France
Violle, C.;  Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CNRS – Université de Montpellier – Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier – EPHE, Montpellier Cedex 5, France
Language :
English
Title :
Plant demographic and functional responses to management intensification: A long-term study in a Mediterranean rangeland
Publication date :
2018
Journal title :
Journal of Ecology
ISSN :
0022-0477
eISSN :
1365-2745
Publisher :
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Volume :
106
Issue :
4
Pages :
1363-1376
Peer reviewed :
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