Nitrogen uptake and biomass resprouting show contrasting relationships with resource acquisitive and conservative plant traits
Abstract
Disturbances can cause fluctuations in resource availability that influence plant performance. In systems with such dynamics, inter‐specific differences in resource capture may promote co‐existence by partitioning competition between periods of high or low resource availability. Such differences in resource use strategy have been described with the Plant Economics Spectrum, which hypothesizes that functions related to resource use and processing should co‐vary and can be predicted from plant traits. In pyrogenic systems, fires are associated with short‐term increases in soil nitrogen availability (“pulses”), and thus contribute to a fluctuating resource supply. In this study, we sought to understand whether plants differed in their capacity to capture a nitrogen pulse, and to what extent that ability influenced biomass recovery.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2019
- Source ID
- 10.1111/jvs.12705
Entities
People
- Cari Ficken
- Justin P. Wright
Organizations
- American Society of Naturalists
- Division of Environmental Biology
- Duke University
- Engineer Research and Development Center
- University of Waterloo