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.
机构:S China Agr Univ, Inst Trop & Subtrop Ecol, Guangzhou 510642, Peoples R China
Bi, Hai Hong
Zeng, Ren Sen
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Zeng, Ren Sen
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机构:S China Agr Univ, Inst Trop & Subtrop Ecol, Guangzhou 510642, Peoples R China
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机构:S China Agr Univ, Inst Trop & Subtrop Ecol, Guangzhou 510642, Peoples R China
机构:S China Agr Univ, Inst Trop & Subtrop Ecol, Guangzhou 510642, Peoples R China
Bi, Hai Hong
Zeng, Ren Sen
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S China Agr Univ, Inst Trop & Subtrop Ecol, Guangzhou 510642, Peoples R ChinaS China Agr Univ, Inst Trop & Subtrop Ecol, Guangzhou 510642, Peoples R China
Zeng, Ren Sen
Su, Li Ming
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机构:S China Agr Univ, Inst Trop & Subtrop Ecol, Guangzhou 510642, Peoples R China
Su, Li Ming
An, Min
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机构:S China Agr Univ, Inst Trop & Subtrop Ecol, Guangzhou 510642, Peoples R China
An, Min
Luo, Shi Ming
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机构:S China Agr Univ, Inst Trop & Subtrop Ecol, Guangzhou 510642, Peoples R China