ArticleOecologia2014
Plant phylodiversity enhances soil microbial productivity in facilitation-driven communities.
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- Optimizing ecosystem restoration with facilitation cascades.Bioscience · 2026Review
- Unveiling microbial diversity in slightly and moderately magnesium deficient acidic soils.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Bacteriome Diversity of Soil Islands Associated With Bromeliads From Ironstone Outcrops in the Brazilian Pantanal.International journal of microbiology · 2025Article
- Facilitation and competition deconstructed: a mechanistic modelling approach to the stress gradient hypothesis applied to drylands.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Using Mediterranean Native Plants for the Phytoremediation of Mining Sites: An Overview of the Past and Present, and Perspectives for the Future.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Spontaneous Primary Succession and Vascular Plant Recovery in the Iberian Gypsum Quarries: Insights for Ecological Restoration in an EU Priority Habitat.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Plant-plant interactions determine natural restoration of plant biodiversity over time, in a degraded mined land.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Phylogenetic-scale disparities in the soil microbial diversity-ecosystem functioning relationship.The ISME journal · 2018Article
- Opposing phylogenetic diversity gradients of plant and soil bacterial communities.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2016Article
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Abstract
The classical relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning can be better understood when the phylogenetic component of biodiversity is considered. We linked plant phylodiversity and ecosystem functioning in a water-limited gypsum ecosystem driven by plant facilitation. We tested whether (1) plant facilitation relaxes the abiotic filter imposed by gypsum, allowing the establishment of non-gypsophyte plant species, and consequently increasing plant phylodiversity, and (2) plant phylodiversity influences soil microbial productivity. Our data revealed that the gypsophyte Ononis tridentata spatially determines a macrophytic mosaic, ameliorates the microenvironment, and maximizes plant richness and phylodiversity through facilitating non-gypsophyte species. Beyond the direct effect of the nurse plant on soil microbial biomass, activity, and respiration, the analyses suggest a direct effect of plant phylodiversity (MPD) on these general indicators of soil microbial productivity. Plant diversity (Shannon index) neither correlated with the mentioned parameters nor with specific indicators of C, N and P cycling. This is the first report of a relationship between producer phylodiversity and decomposer productivity, which supports phylogenetic diversity as a relevant player of the ecosystem functioning.
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