Introducing ecosystem engineers for grassland biodiversity conservation: A review of the effects of hemiparasitic Rhinanthus species on plant and animal communities …

C Chaudron, M Mazalová, T Kuras, I Malenovský… - Perspectives in Plant …, 2021 - Elsevier
Parasitic plants may also indirectly affect both … indirectly influenced by parasitic plants
through their impacts on prey abundance. Finally, the particularly nutrient-rich litter that parasites

Effects of soil nutrient heterogeneity and parasitic plant infection on an experimental grassland community

MO Adomako, FL Gao, JM Li, DL Du, W Xue, FH Yu - Flora, 2020 - Elsevier
… Although soil nutrient heterogeneity and parasitic plants co-occur in the same ecosystems
Parasitic plants may also influence communities indirectly through dead litter input (Dunn et al.…

Disentangling the belowground web of biotic interactions in temperate coastal grasslands: From fundamental knowledge to novel applications

G Ievinsh - Land, 2023 - mdpi.com
… , plantparasitic plant interactions, and plantplant interactions … functioning of a coastal
grassland ecosystem is characterized. … parasites, obtaining resources from host plants indirectly

Biotic influences: parasitic associations

H Lambers, RS Oliveira, H Lambers… - Plant physiological …, 2019 - Springer
… Only parasites that directly invade the tissue of a photosynthetic host … A thorough understanding
of host factors that affect seed germination of some parasitic plants may help to control

Parasitism changes rhizospheric soil microbial communities of invasive Alternanthera philoxeroides, benefitting the growth of neighboring plants

B Yang, X Zhang, L Zagorchev, J Li, B Frey, M Li - Applied soil ecology, 2019 - Elsevier
… members of terrestrial ecosystems. Although much is known about how … indirect mediation
of competition between preferred and non-preferred host plants induced by parasitic plants

Positive response of host root-associated bacterial community and soil nutrients to inhibitory parasitism of dodder

W Luo, Y Li, Y Jia, Y Chen, D Li, R Luo, G Wei, M Chou… - Plant and Soil, 2023 - Springer
Parasitic plants are important drivers of plant communities and even ecosystems through
parasitic plant… This may be related to indirect regulation through the host. Previous studies have …

Functional roles of parasitic plants in a warming world

DM Watson, RC McLellan… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
… have advanced our understanding of how parasitic plants modulate animal communities via
their … Parasitic plants indirectly regulate below-ground properties in grassland ecosystems. …

The bright side of parasitic plants: what are they good for?

J Těšitel, AR Li, K Knotková, R McLellan… - Plant …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… , reproductive output or indirectly via modified ecological interactions. … Some research
indicates similar patterns below ground … In grasslands, the effects of parasitic plants also tend to …

A legume host benefits more from arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi than a grass host in the presence of a root hemiparasitic plant

X Sui, K Guan, Y Chen, R Xue, A Li - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
… interaction of AM fungi, parasitic plants, and host plants. … used for grassland restoration in
Bayanbulak Grassland, were … on the growth of parasites directly or indirectly (via host plant). In …

Root traits mediate functional guilds of soil nematodes in an ex-arable field

C Zhang, J Wang, Z Ren, Z Hu, S Tian, W Fan… - Soil Biology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
… species covering a wide range of above- and below-ground … guilds, showing the resource
properties is the most indirect control, as … and abiotic processes in our experimental grassland. …