Nature Communications (Nov 2020)
Nutrients cause grassland biomass to outpace herbivory
- E. T. Borer,
- W. S. Harpole,
- P. B. Adler,
- C. A. Arnillas,
- M. N. Bugalho,
- M. W. Cadotte,
- M. C. Caldeira,
- S. Campana,
- C. R. Dickman,
- T. L. Dickson,
- I. Donohue,
- A. Eskelinen,
- J. L. Firn,
- P. Graff,
- D. S. Gruner,
- R. W. Heckman,
- A. M. Koltz,
- K. J. Komatsu,
- L. S. Lannes,
- A. S. MacDougall,
- J. P. Martina,
- J. L. Moore,
- B. Mortensen,
- R. Ochoa-Hueso,
- H. Olde Venterink,
- S. A. Power,
- J. N. Price,
- A. C. Risch,
- M. Sankaran,
- M. Schütz,
- J. Sitters,
- C. J. Stevens,
- R. Virtanen,
- P. A. Wilfahrt,
- E. W. Seabloom
Affiliations
- E. T. Borer
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota
- W. S. Harpole
- Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research – UFZ, Department of Physiological Diversity
- P. B. Adler
- Department of Wildland Resources and the Ecology Center, Utah State University
- C. A. Arnillas
- Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto - Scarborough
- M. N. Bugalho
- Centre for Applied Ecology (CEABN-InBIO), School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Tapada da Ajuda
- M. W. Cadotte
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto - Scarborough
- M. C. Caldeira
- Forest Research Centre, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Tapada da Ajuda
- S. Campana
- IFEVA, Universidad de Buenos Aires, CONICET, Facultad de Agronomía
- C. R. Dickman
- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney
- T. L. Dickson
- Department of Biology, University of Nebraska at Omaha
- I. Donohue
- Department of Zoology, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin
- A. Eskelinen
- Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research – UFZ, Department of Physiological Diversity
- J. L. Firn
- School of Earth, Environmental and Biological Sciences, Queensland University of Technology
- P. Graff
- IFEVA, Universidad de Buenos Aires, CONICET, Facultad de Agronomía
- D. S. Gruner
- Department of Entomology, University of Maryland
- R. W. Heckman
- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina
- A. M. Koltz
- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis
- K. J. Komatsu
- Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
- L. S. Lannes
- Department of Biology and Animal Sciences, São Paulo State University - UNESP
- A. S. MacDougall
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph
- J. P. Martina
- Department of Biology, Texas State University
- J. L. Moore
- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton Campus
- B. Mortensen
- Department of Biology, Benedictine College
- R. Ochoa-Hueso
- Department of Biology, IVAGRO, University of Cádiz
- H. Olde Venterink
- Department of Biology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- S. A. Power
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
- J. N. Price
- Institute of Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University
- A. C. Risch
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
- M. Sankaran
- National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR
- M. Schütz
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
- J. Sitters
- Department of Biology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- C. J. Stevens
- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University
- R. Virtanen
- Department of Ecology & Genetics, University of Oulu
- P. A. Wilfahrt
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota
- E. W. Seabloom
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19870-y
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 8
Abstract
It is unclear whether terrestrial herbivores are able to consume the extra plant biomass produced under nutrient enrichment. Here the authors test this in grasslands using a globally distributed network of coordinated field experiments, finding that wild herbivore control on grassland production declines under eutrophication.
