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000165780 041__ $$aeng
000165780 100__ $$aSmit, Imke C.
000165780 245__ $$aPlant Trait Matching Occurs in Facilitative Interactions Across Global Drylands
000165780 260__ $$c2025
000165780 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted
000165780 5203_ $$aAim
Plant functional traits can influence interaction outcomes between nurse and target plants through a “functional trait match”, which occurs when the traits of nurse plants ameliorate their environment, and target plants possess traits that allow them to benefit from this ameliorated environment. We investigated how the traits of putative nurse species affect interaction outcomes across global drylands and determined the functional match that promotes facilitation. We also investigated how grazing pressure and global climatic and edaphic gradients affected this trait match.
Location
Global drylands.
Time Period
2016–2019.
Major Taxa Studied
Vascular plants.
Methods
We used a collaborative survey conducted across 29 sites from five continents, where we gathered in situ co-occurrences of dominant species (‘nurses’) and other vascular plant species, as well as their functional traits [plant height and leaf dry matter content (LDMC)]. Climate, edaphic variables and grazing pressure were measured in situ or extracted from databases. We used a model building approach to determine the effect of dominant plant traits on interaction outcomes, and how the functional trait match between nurse and target species is affected by environmental variables.
Results
Tall dominant plants with conservative leaves generally had a greater positive effect on species richness and cover beneath their canopies, but these effects were strongly modulated by grazing pressure and soil pH. Target plants that were significantly associated with dominant plants tended to be shorter, and have more acquisitive leaves than dominant plants, regardless of environmental conditions. However, the difference in height and LDMC between dominant plants and negatively associated target plants was strongly affected by environmental conditions.
Main Conclusions
Functional traits play a significant role in determining interaction outcomes between dryland plants. Facilitation in drylands is driven by a conservative-acquisitive trait match, a pattern observed regardless of grazing pressure, climate and soil conditions.
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000165780 700__ $$ale Roux, Peter C.
000165780 700__ $$aSoliveres, Santiago
000165780 700__ $$aGross, Nicolas
000165780 700__ $$aLe Bagousse-Pinguet, Yoann
000165780 700__ $$aSaiz, Hugo$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza
000165780 700__ $$aAbedi, Mehdi
000165780 700__ $$aAhumada, Rodrigo
000165780 700__ $$aArroyo, Antonio I.
000165780 700__ $$aAsensio, Sergio
000165780 700__ $$aBenoit, Richard
000165780 700__ $$aBlaum, Niels
000165780 700__ $$aBu, Chongfeng
000165780 700__ $$aEldridge, David
000165780 700__ $$aFajardo, Alex
000165780 700__ $$aFarzam, Mohammad
000165780 700__ $$aFateh, Amghar
000165780 700__ $$aGarcía-Gómez, Miguel
000165780 700__ $$aGaitán, Juan J.
000165780 700__ $$aGonzalez, Sofia
000165780 700__ $$aGozalo, Beatriz
000165780 700__ $$aGreenville, Aaron C.
000165780 700__ $$aGuirado, Emilio
000165780 700__ $$aHering, Robert
000165780 700__ $$aLeder, Cintia V.
000165780 700__ $$aLi, Xinhao
000165780 700__ $$aLiu, Jushan
000165780 700__ $$aLouw, Michelle A.
000165780 700__ $$aManzaneda, Antonio J.
000165780 700__ $$aMarais, Eugene
000165780 700__ $$aMartínez-Valderrama, Jaime
000165780 700__ $$aMendoza, Betty J.
000165780 700__ $$aMora, Juan P.
000165780 700__ $$aMoreno, Gerardo
000165780 700__ $$aOchoa, Victoria
000165780 700__ $$aOñatibia, Gastón R.
000165780 700__ $$aPeter, Guadalupe
000165780 700__ $$aPueyo, Yolanda
000165780 700__ $$aQuiroga, Emiliano
000165780 700__ $$aRahmanian, Soroor
000165780 700__ $$aRey, Pedro J.
000165780 700__ $$aRolo, Victor
000165780 700__ $$aPlaza, César
000165780 700__ $$aSarig, Shlomo
000165780 700__ $$aSelyari, Javad
000165780 700__ $$aTravers, Samantha
000165780 700__ $$aValencia, Enrique
000165780 700__ $$aWang, Deli
000165780 700__ $$aWang, Lixin
000165780 700__ $$aWardle, Glenda
000165780 700__ $$aYahdjian, Laura
000165780 700__ $$aZaady, Eli
000165780 700__ $$aZhang, Yuanming
000165780 700__ $$aZhou, Xiaobing
000165780 700__ $$aMaestre, Fernando T.
000165780 7102_ $$15011$$2220$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. CC.Agrar.y Medio Natural$$cÁrea Ecología
000165780 773__ $$g34, 11 (2025), e70158 [18 pp.]$$pGlob. ecol. biogeogr.$$tGLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY$$x1466-822X
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