TY - JOUR
T1 - The ecosystem and evolutionary contexts of allelopathy
AU - Inderjit,
AU - Wardle, David A.
AU - Karban, Richard
AU - Callaway, Ragan M.
N1 - Funding Information:
Inderjit acknowledges research funding from the University of Delhi and Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR). Ragan M. Callaway thanks the National Science Foundation and DoD SERDP for support, and David A. Wardle acknowledges support from a Wallenberg Scholars award. We thank reviewers for their valuable comments.
PY - 2011/12
Y1 - 2011/12
N2 - Plants can release chemicals into the environment that suppress the growth and establishment of other plants in their vicinity: a process known as 'allelopathy'. However, chemicals with allelopathic functions have other ecological roles, such as plant defense, nutrient chelation, and regulation of soil biota in ways that affect decomposition and soil fertility. These ecosystem-scale roles of allelopathic chemicals can augment, attenuate or modify their community-scale functions. In this review we explore allelopathy in the context of ecosystem properties, and through its role in exotic invasions consider how evolution might affect the intensity and importance of allelopathic interactions.
AB - Plants can release chemicals into the environment that suppress the growth and establishment of other plants in their vicinity: a process known as 'allelopathy'. However, chemicals with allelopathic functions have other ecological roles, such as plant defense, nutrient chelation, and regulation of soil biota in ways that affect decomposition and soil fertility. These ecosystem-scale roles of allelopathic chemicals can augment, attenuate or modify their community-scale functions. In this review we explore allelopathy in the context of ecosystem properties, and through its role in exotic invasions consider how evolution might affect the intensity and importance of allelopathic interactions.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.tree.2011.08.003
DO - 10.1016/j.tree.2011.08.003
M3 - Review article
C2 - 21920626
AN - SCOPUS:81055140392
SN - 0169-5347
VL - 26
SP - 655
EP - 662
JO - Trends in Ecology and Evolution
JF - Trends in Ecology and Evolution
IS - 12
ER -