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Plant functional markers capture ecosystem properties during secondary succession

by Bellmann, Astrid , Billès, Georges , Laurent, Gérard , Toussaint, Jean-Patrick , Neill, Cathy , Blanchard, Alain , Aubry, David , Cortez, Jacques , Debussche, Max , Navas, Marie-Laure , Garnier, Eric , Roumet, Catherine

in Animal and plant ecology / Animal, plant and microbial ecology / Biodiversity / Biological and medical sciences / biomass / carbon / Dry matter / dry matter content / Ecological function / Ecological succession / ecosystem functioning / Ecosystems / Environmental changes / Flowers & plants / France / functional effect groups / functional leaf traits / Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology / General aspects / global change / leaf area / Leaves / litter decomposition / Mediterranean region / net primary productivity / Nitrogen / nitrogen content / Plant communities / primary productivity / Relative abundance / secondary succession / soil / soil carbon and nitrogen / Soil testing / vineyards

2004

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Journal Article

Plant functional markers capture ecosystem properties during secondary succession

Bellmann, Astrid,

Billès, Georges,

Laurent, Gérard,

Toussaint, Jean-Patrick,

Neill, Cathy,

Blanchard, Alain,

Aubry, David,

Cortez, Jacques,

Debussche, Max,

Navas, Marie-Laure,

Garnier, Eric,

Roumet, Catherine

2004

Overview

Although the structure and composition of plant communities is known to influence the functioning of ecosystems, there is as yet no agreement as to how these should be described from a functional perspective. We tested the biomass ratio hypothesis, which postulates that ecosystem properties should depend on species traits and on species contribution to the total biomass of the community, in a successional sere following vineyard abandonment in the Mediterranean region of France. Ecosystem-specific net primary productivity, litter decomposition rate, and total soil carbon and nitrogen varied significantly with field age, and correlated with community-aggregated (i.e., weighed according to the relative abundance of species) functional leaf traits. The three easily measurable traits tested, specific leaf area, leaf dry matter content, and nitrogen concentration, provide a simple means to scale up from organ to ecosystem functioning in complex plant communities. We propose that they be called \"functional markers,\" and be used to assess the impacts of community changes on ecosystem properties induced, in particular, by global change drivers.

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Ecology Society of America,Ecological Society of America

Subject

Animal and plant ecology

/ Animal, plant and microbial ecology

/ Biodiversity

/ Biological and medical sciences

/ biomass

/ carbon

/ Dry matter