The ecosystem and evolutionary contexts of allelopathy

Inderjit; David A. Wardle; Richard Karban; Ragan M. Callaway

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2011.08.003

The ecosystem and evolutionary contexts of allelopathy

Inderjit, David A. Wardle, Richard Karban, Ragan M. Callaway

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	655-662
Number of pages	8
Journal	Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Volume	26
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2011.08.003
State	Published - Dec 2011

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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.

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The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
University of Delhi

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