ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2016
Opposing phylogenetic diversity gradients of plant and soil bacterial communities.
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- Soil C/N ratio governs bacterial community assembly along an arid mountain elevational gradient.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Soil bacterial communities in urban deciduous forests are filtered by site identity, soil chemistry, and shrub presence.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Diversity Indices of Plant Communities and Their Rhizosphere Microbiomes: An Attempt to Find the Connection.Microorganisms · 2021Article
- Connecting high-throughput biodiversity inventories: Opportunities for a site-based genomic framework for global integration and synthesis.Molecular ecology · 2021Review
- Range-expansion effects on the belowground plant microbiome.Nature ecology & evolution · 2019Article
- Phylogenetic-scale disparities in the soil microbial diversity-ecosystem functioning relationship.The ISME journal · 2018Article
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Abstract
Plants and soil microbes show parallel patterns of species-level diversity. Diverse plant communities release a wider range of organics that are consumed by more microbial species. We speculated, however, that diversity metrics accounting for the evolutionary distance across community members would reveal opposing patterns between plant and soil bacterial phylogenetic diversity. Plant phylogenetic diversity enhances plant productivity and thus expectedly soil fertility. This, in turn, might reduce bacterial phylogenetic diversity by favouring one (or a few) competitive bacterial clade. We collected topsoils in 15 semi-arid plant patches and adjacent low-cover areas configuring a plant phylodiversity gradient, pyrosequenced the 16S rRNA gene to identify bacterial taxa and analysed soil fertility parameters. Structural equation modelling showed positive effects of both plant richness and phylogenetic diversity on soil fertility. Fertility increased bacterial richness but reduced bacterial phylogenetic diversity. This might be attributed to the competitive dominance of a lineage based on its high relative fitness. This suggests biotic interactions as determinants of the soil bacterial community assembly, while emphasizing the need to use phylogeny-informed metrics to tease apart the processes underlying the patterns of diversity.
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