INIBIOMA   20415
INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN BIODIVERSIDAD Y MEDIOAMBIENTE
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Nutrient enrichment increases invertebrate herbivory and pathogen damage in grasslands
Autor/es:
STRAUSS, ALEX T.; BARRIO, ISABEL C.; BUGALHO, MIGUEL N.; DALEO, PEDRO; FAY, PHILIP A.; HAGENAH, NICOLE; MCCULLEY, REBECCA L.; PASCUAL, JESUS; PROBER, SUZANNE M.; SANKARAN, MAHESH; SCHÜTZ, MARTIN; VIRTANEN, RISTO; EBELING, ANNE; ARNILLAS, CARLOS A.; BORER, ELIZABETH T.; CADOTTE, MARC W.; ESKELINEN, ANU; GRAFF, PAMELA; KOMATSU, KIMBERLY J.; MOORE, JOSLIN L.; POWER, SALLY A.; ROSCHER, CHRISTIANE; SCHIELZETH, HOLGER; TEDDER, MICHELLE; ADLER, PETER B.; BIEDERMAN, LORI A.; CALDEIRA, MARIA C.; EISENHAUER, NICO; FIRN, JENNIFER; HAIDER, SYLVIA; MITCHELL, CHARLES E.; PERI, PABLO L.; RISCH, ANITA C.; SEABLOOM, ERIC W.; SPEZIALE, KARINA L.; BLUMENTHAL, DANA M.
Revista:
JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY (PRINT)
Editorial:
British Ecological Society
Referencias:
Lugar: Londres; Año: 2022 vol. 110 p. 327 - 339
ISSN:
0022-0477
Resumen:
Plant damage by invertebrate herbivores and pathogens influences the dynamics of grassland ecosystems, but anthropogenic changes in nitrogen and phosphorus availability can modify these relationships. Using a globally distributed experiment, we describe leaf damage on 153 plant taxa from 27 grasslands worldwide, under ambient conditions and with experimentally elevated nitrogen and phosphorus. Invertebrate damage significantly increased with nitrogen addition, especially ingrasses and non-leguminous forbs. Pathogen damage increased with nitrogen in grasses and legumes but not forbs. Effects of phosphorus were generally weaker. Damage was higher in grasslands with more precipitation, but climatic conditions did not change effects of nutrients on leaf damage. On average, invertebrate damage was relatively higher on legumes and pathogen damage was relatively higher on grasses. Community-weighted mean damage reflected these functional group patterns, with no effects of N on community-weighted pathogen damage (due toopposing responses of grasses and forbs) but stronger effects of N on communityweighted invertebrate damage (due to consistent responses of grasses and forbs). As human-induced inputs of nitrogen and phosphorus continue to increase, understanding their impacts on invertebrate and pathogen damage becomes increasingly important. Our results demonstrate that eutrophicationfrequently increases plant damage and that damage increases with precipitation across a wide array of grasslands. Invertebrate and pathogen damage in grasslands is likely to increase in the future, with potential consequences for plant, invertebrate and pathogen communities, as well as the transfer of energy and nutrients across trophic levels.