- Title Pages
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- One Introduction
- Two Systematics of California Grasses (Poaceae)
- Three Community Classification and Nomenclature
- Four Pleistocene and Pre-European Grassland Ecosystems
- Five Native American Uses and Management of California’s Grasslands
- Six Ecology of Invasive Non-native Species in California Grassland
- Seven Water Relations
- Eight Mechanisms Determining Patterns of Nutrient Dynamics
- Nine Soil Biology and Carbon Sequestration in Grasslands
- Ten Resource Limitation
- Eleven Genes on the Range
- Twelve Serpentine Grasslands
- Thirteen Competitive Interactions
- Fourteen Dynamics of Woody Species in the California Grassland
- Fifteen Ecology of Native Animals in California Grasslands
- Sixteen History and Ecology of Feral Pig Invasions in California Grasslands
- Seventeen Grazing Ecology of California Grasslands
- Eighteen Fire in California Grasslands
- Nineteen Responses to Changing Atmosphere and Climate
- Twenty Grazing Management on California’s Mediterranean Grasslands
- Twenty One California Grassland Restoration
- Twenty Two Exotic Plant Management in California Annual Grasslands
- Twenty Three Regulatory Protection and Conservation
- Twenty Four Epilogue
- References
- Index
Resource Limitation
Resource Limitation
- Chapter:
- (p.119) Ten Resource Limitation
- Source:
- California Grasslands
- Author(s):
W. stanley Harpole
Leah Goldstein
Rebecca J. Aicher
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
The productivity of California grasslands is limited by nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, or water at various sites, and studies finding limitation by multiple resources are common. This chapter reviews this evidence, and explores resource limitation patterns and how they affect plant community productivity, functional group composition, and trophic interactions.
Keywords: California, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, water, resource limitation, productivity, group composition, trophic interactions
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- Title Pages
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- One Introduction
- Two Systematics of California Grasses (Poaceae)
- Three Community Classification and Nomenclature
- Four Pleistocene and Pre-European Grassland Ecosystems
- Five Native American Uses and Management of California’s Grasslands
- Six Ecology of Invasive Non-native Species in California Grassland
- Seven Water Relations
- Eight Mechanisms Determining Patterns of Nutrient Dynamics
- Nine Soil Biology and Carbon Sequestration in Grasslands
- Ten Resource Limitation
- Eleven Genes on the Range
- Twelve Serpentine Grasslands
- Thirteen Competitive Interactions
- Fourteen Dynamics of Woody Species in the California Grassland
- Fifteen Ecology of Native Animals in California Grasslands
- Sixteen History and Ecology of Feral Pig Invasions in California Grasslands
- Seventeen Grazing Ecology of California Grasslands
- Eighteen Fire in California Grasslands
- Nineteen Responses to Changing Atmosphere and Climate
- Twenty Grazing Management on California’s Mediterranean Grasslands
- Twenty One California Grassland Restoration
- Twenty Two Exotic Plant Management in California Annual Grasslands
- Twenty Three Regulatory Protection and Conservation
- Twenty Four Epilogue
- References
- Index
