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Importance, but not intensity of plant interactions relates to species diversity under the interplay of stress and disturbance

hal.structure.identifierUniversité Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 [UB]
dc.contributor.authorLE BAGOUSSE-PINGUET, Yoann
hal.structure.identifierBiodiversité, Gènes & Communautés [BioGeCo]
dc.contributor.authorMAALOUF, Jean Paul
hal.structure.identifierBiodiversité, Gènes & Communautés [BioGeCo]
dc.contributor.authorTOUZARD, Blaise
hal.structure.identifierEnvironnements et Paléoenvironnements OCéaniques [EPOC]
dc.contributor.authorMICHALET, Richard
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.issn0030-1299
dc.description.abstractEnThe lack of clarity on how the intensity and importance of plant interactions change under the co-occurrence of stress and disturbance strongly impedes assessing the relative importance of plant interactions for species diversity. We addressed this issue in subalpine grasslands of the French Pyrenees. A natural soil moisture gradient further experimentally stretched at both ends was used and a mowing disturbance treatment was applied at each position along the soil moisture gradient. Changes in intensity and importance of plant interactions were assessed by a neighbour removal experiment using four target ecotypes. A structural equation modelling approach was used to assess the relative impact of stress, disturbance, the intensity and importance of plant interactions on diversity at both the neighbourhood and community scales. Without mowing, changes in intensity and importance of plant interactions only diverged in the dry part of the soil moisture gradient. The intensity of plant interactions linearly shifted from competition to facilitation with increasing stress, while the importance followed a hump-shaped relationship. Species diversity components were tightly related to the importance of plant interactions only, both the neighbourhood and community scales. Mowing disturbance strongly reduced the importance of facilitation along the soil moisture gradient, and suppressed the relationship between the importance of plant interactions and diversity components. Together, our results highlight that 1) the importance is the best predictor of variations in species diversity in this subalpine herbaceous system, and 2) that fine-scale processes such as plant interactions can affect the entire plant communities. Finally, our results suggest that high level of constraints due to co-occurring stress and disturbance can inhibit the effects of plant interactions on species diversity, highlighting their potential role in regulating diversity and the maintenance/extinction of plant communities.
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherNordic Ecological Society
dc.title.enImportance, but not intensity of plant interactions relates to species diversity under the interplay of stress and disturbance
dc.typeArticle de revue
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/oik.00961
dc.subject.halSciences du Vivant [q-bio]
bordeaux.journalOikos
bordeaux.page777–785
bordeaux.volume123
bordeaux.issue7
bordeaux.peerReviewedoui
hal.identifierhal-02630511
hal.version1
hal.popularnon
hal.audienceInternationale
hal.origin.linkhttps://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr//hal-02630511v1
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