Plant antagonistic facilitation across environmental gradients: a soil-resource ecosystem engineering model.
ecosystem engineers
facilitation
primary succession
root competition
soil amelioration
stress gradient hypothesis
Journal
The New phytologist
ISSN: 1469-8137
Titre abrégé: New Phytol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9882884
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
21 Aug 2024
21 Aug 2024
Historique:
received:
23
02
2024
accepted:
24
07
2024
medline:
21
8
2024
pubmed:
21
8
2024
entrez:
21
8
2024
Statut:
aheadofprint
Résumé
Theory questions the persistence of nonreciprocal interactions in which one plant has a positive net effect on a neighbor that, in return, has a negative net impact on its benefactor - a phenomenon known as antagonistic facilitation. We develop a spatially explicit consumer-resource model for belowground plant competition between ecosystem engineers, plants able to mine resources and make them available for any other plant in the community, and exploiters. We use the model to determine in what environmental conditions antagonistic facilitation via soil-resource engineering emerges as an optimal strategy. Antagonistic facilitation emerges in stressful environments where ecosystem engineers' self-benefits from mining resources outweigh the competition with opportunistic neighbors. Among all potential causes of stress considered in the model, the key environmental parameter driving changes in the interaction between plants is the proportion of the resource that becomes readily available for plant consumption in the absence of any mining activity. Our results align with theories of primary succession and the stress gradient hypothesis. However, we find that the total root biomass and its spatial allocation through the root system, often used to measure the sign of the interaction between plants, do not predict facilitation reliably.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Subventions
Organisme : Agencia Estatal de Investigación - Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
ID : JDC2022048613I
Organisme : FAPESP - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
ID : 2019/212270
Organisme : FAPESP - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
ID : 2021/143350
Organisme : FAPESP - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
ID : 2019/055238
Organisme : Simons Foundation
ID : 284558FY19
Organisme : Institute Serrapilheira
ID : Serra-1911-31200
Informations de copyright
© 2024 The Author(s). New Phytologist © 2024 New Phytologist Foundation.
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