Supplementary raw data files for "Unpacking multi-trophic herbivore-grass-endophyte interactions: feedbacks across different scales in vegetation responses to Soay sheep herbivory". Revised manuscript submitted to The Science of Nature (Naturwissenschaften) on August 26, 2018 11/11 files
| dc.contributor.author | Vicari, Mark | |
| dc.contributor.author | Puentes, Adriana | |
| dc.contributor.author | Granath, Gustaf | |
| dc.contributor.author | Georgeff, Jennifer | |
| dc.contributor.author | Strathdee, Fiona | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bazely, Dawn | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-08-26T15:33:04Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-08-26T15:33:04Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Grazing can induce changes in both plant productivity and nutritional quality, which may subsequently influence herbivore carrying capacity. While research on Soay sheep (Ovis aries L.) dynamics on Hirta Island in the St Kilda archipelago has elucidated the complexity of population drivers, including parasites, the role of herbivore-generated feedbacks as an intrinsic regulating factor remains unclear. The sheep lack large predators, and every 3-9 years undergo population crashes (overcompensatory mortality). We investigated the effects of grazing on (1) sward productivity, and (2) quality (toxicity) of the primary forage species, red fescue (Festuca rubra L.), which is highly infected by an alkaloid-synthesizing fungal endophyte. Grazing had a negative impact on both forage quantity and quality. At higher sheep densities, impacts on sward growth were magnified, resulting in a nonlinear relationship with plant productivity. Simultaneously, endophyte hyphal load (and by inference, toxicity) peaked close to the time of a crash. A greenhouse experiment showed that alkaloid concentration in F. rubra increased in response to artificial defoliation. We conclude that at high sheep densities, grazing-mediated reductions in productivity, together with sustained alkaloid production, are likely to influence sheep dynamics. Future research should consider the interactive effects of forage toxicity, quantity and nutritional content. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | NSERC Discovery Grant to Dawn Bazely 1990-1995 York University grant to University Professor (Bazely) 2018 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1432-1904 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10315/34946 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Canada | * |
| dc.rights.journal | https://www.springer.com/life+sciences/journal/114 | en_US |
| dc.rights.publisher | https://www.springer.com/us | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ca/ | * |
| dc.subject | Aboveground net primary production (ANPP) | en |
| dc.subject | Epichloƫ festucae | en |
| dc.subject | Grazing optimization | en |
| dc.subject | Herbivore irruptions | en |
| dc.subject | Inducible defences | en |
| dc.subject | Plant demography | en |
| dc.title | Supplementary raw data files for "Unpacking multi-trophic herbivore-grass-endophyte interactions: feedbacks across different scales in vegetation responses to Soay sheep herbivory". Revised manuscript submitted to The Science of Nature (Naturwissenschaften) on August 26, 2018 11/11 files | en |
| dc.title.alternative | Supplementary Data for Unpacking multi-trophic herbivore-grass-endophyte interactions: feedbacks across different scales in vegetation responses to Soay sheep herbivory | en_US |
| dc.type | Dataset | en |
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