@article{dbe0f0e39edf46148720241305f45995,
title = "Evolutionary history of grazing and resources determine herbivore exclusion effects on plant diversity",
abstract = "Ecological models predict that the effects of mammalian herbivore exclusion on plant diversity depend on resource availability and plant exposure to ungulate grazing over evolutionary time. Using an experiment replicated in 57 grasslands on six continents, with contrasting evolutionary history of grazing, we tested how resources (mean annual precipitation and soil nutrients) determine herbivore exclusion effects on plant diversity, richness and evenness. Here we show that at sites with a long history of ungulate grazing, herbivore exclusion reduced plant diversity by reducing both richness and evenness and the responses of richness and diversity to herbivore exclusion decreased with mean annual precipitation. At sites with a short history of grazing, the effects of herbivore exclusion were not related to precipitation but differed for native and exotic plant richness. Thus, plant species{\textquoteright} evolutionary history of grazing continues to shape the response of the world{\textquoteright}s grasslands to changing mammalian herbivory.",
keywords = "Animals, Biodiversity, Herbivory, Mammals, Plants, Soil",
author = "Price, {Jodi N.} and Judith Sitters and Timothy Ohlert and Tognetti, {Pedro M.} and Brown, {Cynthia S.} and Seabloom, {Eric W.} and Borer, {Elizabeth T.} and Prober, {Suzanne M.} and Bakker, {Elisabeth S.} and MacDougall, {Andrew S.} and Laura Yahdjian and Gruner, {Daniel S.} and {Olde Venterink}, Harry and Barrio, {Isabel C.} and Pamela Graff and Sumanta Bagchi and Arnillas, {Carlos Alberto} and Bakker, {Jonathan D.} and Blumenthal, {Dana M.} and Boughton, {Elizabeth H.} and Brudvig, {Lars A.} and Bugalho, {Miguel N.} and Cadotte, {Marc W.} and Caldeira, {Maria C.} and Dickman, {Chris R.} and Ian Donohue and Sonnier Gr{\'e}gory and Yann Hautier and J{\'o}nsd{\'o}ttir, {Ingibj{\"o}rg S.} and Lannes, {Luciola S.} and McCulley, {Rebecca L.} and Moore, {Joslin L.} and Power, {Sally A.} and Risch, {Anita C.} and Martin Sch{\"u}tz and Rachel Standish and Stevens, {Carly J.} and Veen, {G. F.} and Risto Virtanen and Wardle, {Glenda M.}",
note = "7387, TE & AqE",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.1038/s41559-022-01809-9",
language = "English",
volume = "6",
pages = "1290--1298",
journal = "Nature Ecology and Evolution",
issn = "2397-334X",
publisher = "Springer Science+Business Media",
number = "9",
}