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

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. …

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 …

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. …

Contrasting influences of two dominant plants, Dasiphora fruticosa and Ligularia virguarea, on aboveground and belowground communities in an alpine meadow

H Song, Z Liu, H Cui, J Chen, S Chen, H Gao… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
… In this study, we compared the direct and indirect pathways … Despite both plants affecting
other ecosystem properties, our piecewise … the complex above- and below-ground relationship. …

Contrasting responses of above-and below-ground herbivore communities along elevation

C Pitteloud, P Descombes, S Sànchez-Moreno… - Oecologia, 2020 - Springer
… Above- and below-ground herbivory are key ecosystem processes that can be … directly
compared to date. Here, we have focused on two dominant groups of herbivores in grasslands, …