Facilitation by nurse plants contributes to vegetation recovery in human-disturbed desert ecosystems
作者机构：División de Ciencias AmbientalesInstituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y TecnológicaA.C.Camino a la Presa San José2055Colonia Lomas 4ta SecciónC.P.78216San Luis PotosíMéxico Instituto de Investigación de Zonas DesérticasUniversidad Autónoma de San Luis PotosíAltair 200Fraccionamiento del LlanoC.P.78377San Luis PotosíMéxico Facultad de AgronomíaUniversidad Autónoma de San Luis PotosíKm.14.5 Carretera San Luis-MatehualaApdo.Postal 32Soledad de Graciano SánchezC.P.78321San Luis PotosíMéxico
出 版 物：《Journal of Plant Ecology》 (植物生态学报（英文版）)
年 卷 期：2016年第9卷第5期
页 面：485-497页
核心收录：
学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 071001[理学-植物学] 0830[工学-环境科学与工程（可授工学、理学、农学学位）] 07[理学] 0901[农学-作物学] 0902[农学-园艺学] 0713[理学-生态学]
主 题：Chihuahuan desert community-level effects community succession positive interactions Mexico
摘 要：Aims Facilitation by nurse plants is a common interaction in harsh environments and this positive plant-plant interaction may promote vegetation recovery in ecosystems affected by human *** the relevance of this process,however,requires assessing how nurse plants influence the establishment of other species,as well as the proportion of species in the regional species pool that would benefit from the presence of nurse plants in human-disturbed ***,since vegetation recovery is a time-dependent process,the community-level consequences of facilitation are likely to vary among landscapes with different disturbance ***,an integrative perspective of the relevance of nurse plants for vegetation recovery could be obtained by measuring their effects across different human-disturbed landscapes of the target *** study focuses on these issues and uses a regional-scale approach to assess the community-level effects of a widespread nurse plant of American deserts,the creosotebush(Larrea tridentata).Methods This study was conducted in the southernmost portion of Chihuahuan Desert because most floodplain valleys of this region have been affected by human activities during the past *** this study,we selected 10 floodplain valleys differing in their age(*** time elapsed after human activities were ceased).At each landscape,we measured the cover of creosotebushes and the proportion of plant species positively associated with them,as well as the density of seeds in the soil beneath creosotebush *** these data were regressed against the age of the ***,to assess whether positive association patterns were due to facilitation or other processes,we conducted field experiments and measured the ecophysiological performance of plant species established beneath and outside creosotebush *** Findings Most plant species from the target region were positively associated to creosotebushes,and our field
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