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DOI	10.1111/ele.12944
	Plant controls on Late Quaternary whole ecosystem structure and function
	Jeffers E.S.; Whitehouse N.J.; Lister A.; Plunkett G.; Barratt P.; Smyth E.; Lamb P.; Dee M.W.; Brooks S.J.; Willis K.J.; Froyd C.A.; Watson J.E.; Bonsall M.B.
发表日期	2018
ISSN	1461023X
卷号	21 期号:6
英文摘要	Plants and animals influence biomass production and nutrient cycling in terrestrial ecosystems; however, their relative importance remains unclear. We assessed the extent to which mega-herbivore species controlled plant community composition and nutrient cycling, relative to other factors during and after the Late Quaternary extinction event in Britain and Ireland, when two-thirds of the region's mega-herbivore species went extinct. Warmer temperatures, plant–soil and plant–plant interactions, and reduced burning contributed to the expansion of woody plants and declining nitrogen availability in our five study ecosystems. Shrub biomass was consistently one of the strongest predictors of ecosystem change, equalling or exceeding the effects of other biotic and abiotic factors. In contrast, there was relatively little evidence for mega-herbivore control on plant community composition and nitrogen availability. The ability of plants to determine the fate of terrestrial ecosystems during periods of global environmental change may therefore be greater than previously thought. © 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd/CNRS
英文关键词	Climate change; landscape burning; megafauna extinction; nutrient cycling; plant community composition; plant–plant interactions; plant–soil interactions
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Animalia; nitrogen; animal; biomass; ecosystem; herbivory; Ireland; plant; soil; Animals; Biomass; Ecosystem; Herbivory; Ireland; Nitrogen; Plants; Soil
来源期刊	Ecology Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/121314
作者单位	Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PS, United Kingdom; School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, United Kingdom; Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum London, London, SW7 5BD, United Kingdom; School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, BT7 1NN, United Kingdom; School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QY, United Kingdom; Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QY, United Kingdom; Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum London, London, SW7 5BD, United Kingdom; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond TW9 3AE, United Kingdom; Department of Biosciences, Swansea University, Swansea, SA2 8PP, United Kingdom; School of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine, BT52 1SA, United Kingdom; School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Par...
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Jeffers E.S.,Whitehouse N.J.,Lister A.,et al. Plant controls on Late Quaternary whole ecosystem structure and function[J],2018,21(6).
APA	Jeffers E.S..,Whitehouse N.J..,Lister A..,Plunkett G..,Barratt P..,...&Bonsall M.B..(2018).Plant controls on Late Quaternary whole ecosystem structure and function.Ecology Letters,21(6).
MLA	Jeffers E.S.,et al."Plant controls on Late Quaternary whole ecosystem structure and function".Ecology Letters 21.6(2018).