Response of plant functional traits to nitrogen enrichment under climate change: A meta-analysis

Guo, Xiaohui; Líu, Hao; Ngosong, Christopher; Li, Bo; Wang, Qing; Zhou, Wenneng; Nie, Ming

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155379

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“…Climate change affects vegetation patterns and plant physiology through spatial and temporal changes in temperature and humidity and increased atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and affects plant biology by providing more carbon for photosynthesis, biomass production and growth (CO 2 fertilization). These factors can affect the spread of invasive plants, the onset, duration, and intensity of pollination (Guo et al, 2022; Reinmuth-Selzle et al, 2017; Ziska, 2022).…”

Section: Adaptation To Chemicalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Anthropogenic life strategy of plants

Winkler

Vaverková

Havel

2023

The Anthropocene Review

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Plants can adapt to different conditions. They use different life strategies which allow them to adapt and survive. While humans and human civilization cause changes in the Earth’s ecology, only negative impacts of human civilization on individual parts of ecosystems tend to be presented and described. One often omitted fact is that humans also create new habitats which, for many plant species, are new challenges necessary to trigger changes in their life strategies. In the contemporary flora, there is a group of plant species that use and prefer anthropogenic habitats, and beneficial relationships started to be established between the human civilization and certain plant species. These plants have developed a new type of strategy—the anthropogenic life strategy—as a result of the co-evolution of plants and humans. During their evolution, humans—as a biological species—have exceeded their biological boundaries and transformed into human civilization, which is a factor altering environmental conditions and contributing to the evolution of new species, including plants.

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Section: Adaptation To Chemicalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Anthropogenic life strategy of plants

Winkler

Vaverková

Havel

2023

The Anthropocene Review

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“…Water is essential for dissolving mineral nutrients and plant absorption of nutrients such as nitrogen (for other nutrients, we refer the reader to (Hu and Schmidhalter, 2005). Water deficit antagonizes the positive effect of nitrogen enrichment in short-term or greenhouse experiments but not in longterm or field experiments (Guo et al, 2022). In the context of plant-herbivore interactions, nitrogen/water deficit generally lower herbivore performances in the tomato system (Han et al, 2016;Han et al, 2014).…”

Section: Soil Abiotic Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Water availability and plant–herbivore interactions

Lin

Kansman

Chuang

et al. 2022

Journal of Experimental Botany

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Water is essential to plant growth and drives plant evolution and interactions with other organisms, such as herbivores. However, water availability fluctuates, and these fluctuations are intensified by climate change. How plant water availability influences plant-herbivore interactions in the future is an important question in basic and applied ecology. Here we summarize and synthesize the recent discoveries on the impact of water availability on plant antiherbivore defense ecology and the underlying physiological processes. Water deficit tends to enhance plant resistance and escape traits (i.e., early phenology) against herbivory but negatively affects other defense strategies, including indirect defense and tolerance. However, exceptions were sometimes observed in specific plant-herbivore species pairs. We discuss the effect of water availability on species interactions associated with plants and herbivores from individual to community levels and how these interactions drive plant evolution. Although water stress and many other abiotic stresses are predicted to increase in intensity and frequency due to climate change, we identify a significant lack of study on the interactive impact of additional abiotic stressors on water-plant-herbivore interactions. This review summarizes critical knowledge gaps and informs future studies of possible research directions in water-plant-herbivore interactions.

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“…Such N enrichment is a complex form of stress for plants because resource addition can have positive or negative effects. For example, N addition can increase plant productivity and fitness (Huberty et al 1998 ; Xia and Wan 2008 ; Guo et al 2022 ). Conversely, N inputs can decrease biodiversity due to increased dominance by highly competitive plant species (Stevens et al 2004 ; Bobbink et al 2010 ; Gross and Mittelbach 2017 ; Payne et al 2017 ).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nitrogen addition and fungal symbiosis alter early dune plant succession

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Anthropogenic nitrogen (N) enrichment can have complex effects on plant communities. In low-nutrient, primary successional systems such as sand dunes, N enrichment may alter the trajectory of plant community assembly or the dominance of foundational, ecosystem-engineering plants. Predicting the consequences of N enrichment may be complicated by plant interactions with microbial symbionts because increases in a limiting resource, such as N, could alter the costs and benefits of symbiosis. To evaluate the direct and interactive effects of microbial symbiosis and N addition on plant succession, we established a long-term field experiment in Michigan, USA, manipulating the presence of the symbiotic fungal endophyte Epichloë amarillans in Ammophila breviligulata, a dominant ecosystem-engineering dune grass species. From 2016 to 2020, we implemented N fertilization treatments (control, low, high) in a subset of the long-term experiment. N addition suppressed the accumulation of plant diversity over time mainly by reducing species richness of colonizing plants. However, this suppression occurred only when the endophyte was present in Ammophila . Although Epichloë enhanced Ammophila tiller density over time, N addition did not strongly interact with Epichloë symbiosis to influence vegetative growth of Ammophila . Instead, N addition directly altered plant community composition by increasing the abundance of efficient colonizers, especially C 4 grasses. In conclusion, hidden microbial symbionts can alter the consequences of N enrichment on plant primary succession. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00442-023-05362-5.

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Response of plant functional traits to nitrogen enrichment under climate change: A meta-analysis

Cited by 11 publications

References 83 publications

Anthropogenic life strategy of plants

Anthropogenic life strategy of plants

Water availability and plant–herbivore interactions

Nitrogen addition and fungal symbiosis alter early dune plant succession

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