Claim · model-written summary
After the shift to high disturbance, plant community structure changed 1.5 months later.
- Taxon
- grasslande0
- Treatment
- shift to high disturbancee2
- Outcome
- plant community structuree2
- Qualifier
- 1.5 months latere2
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingDirectionValue
Verbatim
e0“mesocosm experiment with grassland monoliths”
e2“After shift to high disturbance, photosynthesis decreased followed by a decline in root biomass and a change in plant community structure 1.5 months later”
Title
Katja Klumpp; Sébastien Fontaine; Eléonore Attard; et al. Journal of Ecology 2009. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2745.2009.01549.x
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect After the shift to high disturbance, photosynthesis decreased.
- Intervention effect After the shift to high disturbance, root biomass declined.
- Intervention effect Changing disturbance intensity decreased soil fungi.
- Intervention effect Changing disturbance intensity led to a proliferation of Gram(+) bacteria.
- Intervention effect Changing disturbance intensity accelerated decomposition of old particulate organic C.
- Intervention effect Accelerated decomposition released plant available nitrogen.
- Intervention effect Changing disturbance intensity decreased soil C storage.
- Mechanism Intensified grazing triggers Gram(+) bacteria proliferation and faster decomposition by reducing roots adapted to low disturbance.
- Mechanism Plant communities control decomposition through the activity of their living roots.
- Mechanism Grazing impacts soil carbon storage by altering plant roots and their control on the soil microbial community.