Plant Genotypic Diversity Predicts Community Structure and Governs an Ecosystem Process Export

@article{citeulike:805389, abstract = {Theory predicts, and recent empirical studies have shown, that the diversity of plant species determines the diversity of associated herbivores and mediates ecosystem processes, such as aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP). However, an often-overlooked component of plant diversity, namely population genotypic diversity, may also have wide-ranging effects on community structure and ecosystem processes. We showed experimentally that increasing population genotypic diversity in a dominant old-field plant species, Solidago altissima, determined arthropod diversity and community structure and increased ANPP. The effects of genotypic diversity on arthropod diversity and ANPP were comparable to the effects of plant species diversity measured in other studies. 10.1126/science.1128326}, author = {Crutsinger, Gregory M. and Collins, Michael D. and Fordyce, James A. and Gompert, Zachariah and Nice, Chris C. and Sanders, Nathan J.}, citeulike-article-id = {805389}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1128326}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/313/5789/966}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16917062}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=16917062}, doi = {10.1126/science.1128326}, journal = {Science}, keywords = {community-composition, community-ecology, community-stability, community-structure, diversity, ecology, stability}, month = {August}, number = {5789}, pages = {966--968}, posted-at = {2006-08-18 16:26:49}, priority = {2}, title = {Plant Genotypic Diversity Predicts Community Structure and Governs an Ecosystem Process}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1128326}, volume = {313}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:805389 L3 - citeulike-article-id:805389 N2 - Theory predicts, and recent empirical studies have shown, that the diversity of plant species determines the diversity of associated herbivores and mediates ecosystem processes, such as aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP). However, an often-overlooked component of plant diversity, namely population genotypic diversity, may also have wide-ranging effects on community structure and ecosystem processes. We showed experimentally that increasing population genotypic diversity in a dominant old-field plant species, Solidago altissima, determined arthropod diversity and community structure and increased ANPP. The effects of genotypic diversity on arthropod diversity and ANPP were comparable to the effects of plant species diversity measured in other studies. 10.1126/science.1128326 IS - 5789 JF - Science EP - 968 TI - Plant Genotypic Diversity Predicts Community Structure and Governs an Ecosystem Process VL - 313 SP - 966 KW - community-composition KW - community-ecology KW - community-stability KW - community-structure KW - diversity KW - ecology KW - stability AU - Crutsinger, Gregory AU - Collins, Michael AU - Fordyce, James AU - Gompert, Zachariah AU - Nice, Chris AU - Sanders, Nathan PY - 2006/08/18/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1128326 ER -