Daniel S. Gruner

TL;DR: A large-scale meta-analysis of experimental enrichments shows that P limitation is equally strong across these major habitats and that N and P limitation are equivalent within both terrestrial and freshwater systems.

TL;DR: This work summarises multiple-resource limitation responses in plant communities using a dataset of 641 studies that applied factorial addition of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) in freshwater, marine and terrestrial systems to highlight the importance of interactions between N and P in regulating primary producer community biomass.

TL;DR: Testing the hypothesis that herbaceous plant species losses caused by eutrophication may be offset by increased light availability due to herbivory demonstrates that nutrients and herbivores can serve as counteracting forces to control local plant diversity through light limitation, independent of site productivity, soil nitrogen, herbivore type and climate.

TL;DR: It is found that an integrative model has substantially higher explanatory power than traditional bivariate analyses and several surprising findings that conflict with classical models are revealed.

TL;DR: It is argued that variable selective forces drive differences in plant allocation patterns in aquatic and terrestrial environments that propagate upward to shape food webs, indicating that structural contrasts between the two systems are preserved despite large variation in energy input.