Yadugiri V. Tiruvaimozhi

TL;DR: It is shown that herbivore-induced change in dominance, independent of site productivity or precipitation (a proxy for productivity), is the best predictor of Herbivore effects on biodiversity in grassland and savannah sites.

TL;DR: In this article, a simulated warming and soil respiration partitioning experiment in tropical montane grasslands in the Western Ghats in southern India was conducted to assess the relative contributions of autotrophic and heterotrophic components to soil respiring.

TL;DR: In this article, a factorial nutrient addition experiment with seedlings of multiple N-fixing and non-Nfixing tree species was conducted to investigate how plant tissue nutrient concentrations, stoichiometry and investment in nutrient uptake mechanisms such as arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi change in response to increased nutrient availability and how responses differ between plant functional types.

TL;DR: The results show that soil respiration was tightly coupled with soil moisture availability, with CO2 efflux levels peaking during the wet season, and future warming is likely to substantially increase the largely heterotroph-driven soil C fluxes in this tropical montane grassland ecosystem.

TL;DR: Overall, this study demonstrates that while AMF colonization levels correspond to annual precipitation levels in this semiarid ecosystem, host species also play a role in influencing plant-AMF interactions in these rangelands, with colonization levels and responses to abiotic factors changing with host species.