Ramesh Laungani

TL;DR: The data illustrate that plant species can change internal ecosystem nitrogen cycling feedbacks and this mechanism can allow them to gain a competitive advantage over other plant species.

TL;DR: It is suggested that short-term experiments may underestimate the long-term nutrient enrichment effects on global, grassland ecosystems, as nutrient effects on live biomass increased more slowly at sites where litter was also increasing, regardless of plant diversity.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the negative effect of nutrient addition on native abundance is decoupled from its effect on richness, and reduces the time scale of the links between climate and compositional change.

TL;DR: This paper examined the interactive effects of eutrophication, climate variability and climate average conditions on the success of native and non-native plant species using experimental nutrient manipulations replicated at 32 grassland sites on four continents.

TL;DR: The results indicate that plant species do not cause feedbacks on the N cycling rate among the three major ecosystem N pools over nine years, but plant carbon inputs to the soil control microbial N immobilization and thereby change N partitioning between the plant and microbial N pools suggest that the SOM pool can act as a strong bottleneck for N cycling in these systems.