Vegetation structure modulates ecosystem and community responses to spatial subsidies

• Published in: Ecosphere
• Main Authors: McCary, Matthew A., Jackson, Randall D., Gratton, Claudio
• Other Authors: National Science Foundation
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2021
• Subjects: Mývatn; Iceland; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3483; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ecs2.3483; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/ecs2.3483; https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ecs2.3483

Abstract Ecosystem responses to external inputs of nutrients and organisms are highly variable. Theory predicts that ecosystem traits will determine the responses to spatial subsidies, but evidence for how vegetation structure can modulate those effects is lacking. We investigated how vegetation str...