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Título: The sign and magnitude of tree–grass interaction along a global environmental gradient
Autor(es): Mazía, Noemí
Moyano, Jaime
Pérez, Luis
Aguiar, Diego Sebastián
Garibaldi, Lucas Alejandro
Tomas, Schlichter
Fecha de publicación: sep-2016
Editorial: Wiley
Citación: Mazía, N., Moyano, J., Perez, L., Aguiar, S., Garibaldi, L. A., & Schlichter, T. (2016). The sign and magnitude of tree–grass interaction along a global environmental gradient. Global Ecology and Biogeography; 25 (12); 1510-1519.
Revista: Global Ecology and Biogeography
Abstract: Aim The ecological literature posits that positive interactions are preponderant in stressful environments; however, the net balance between positive and negative interactions at the community level is still under debate. This study analysed the effect of trees on grass biomass in natural and cultivated woody systems distributed along a global aridity index (AI) gradient. Location Global. Methods We conducted a meta-analysis including eight natural biomes and tree plantations distributed in five continents. The final database consisted of 93 data pairs across 65 locations spanning a gradient from AI = 0.1 to AI = 2.1, which covered annual precipitation ranging from 70 to 3500 mm. Effect size was calculated as the difference between above-ground grass biomass beneath and outside the tree canopy. We built linear models to evaluate the importance of different biotic and abiotic variables as potential drivers of the effect size. Multimodel inference, based on the Akaike information criterion (AICc) was used to select the best models. Results The whole data set shows a shift from net facilitation to net competition along an increasing AI gradient. AI had the highest relative importance in explaining the sign and magnitude of the effect size. Tree characteristics (deciduous–evergreen and leguminous–non-leguminous) were the other predictive variables consistently included in almost all the 10 best models. Deciduous and leguminous trees enhanced grass biomass growing beneath them. Increasing soil sand content, C4 grasses and tropical and natural systems all increased the biomass of grasses growing beneath trees, but their relative importance was substantially lower than that of the AI and tree characteristics. Main conclusions The results of our global meta-analysis showed that climatic context and the characteristics of benefactor trees both represent the main drivers of the sign and magnitude of tree–grass interactions. These findings may contribute to advancing knowledge of the mechanisms behind the global patterns.
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URI: http://rid.unrn.edu.ar/handle/20.500.12049/7208
Identificador DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12518
ISSN: 1466-822X
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Otros enlaces: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/geb.12518
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