ArticleOecologia2019
Reduced water-availability lowers the strength of negative plant-soil feedbacks of two Asclepias species.
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- Plant-soil feedbacks benefit plant invaders under multiple global change factors.National science review · 2026Article
- Drier conditions diminish plant coexistence via soil microbes in a tropical humid forest.American journal of botany · 2026Article
- Higher Plant Diversity Does Not Moderate the Influence of Changing Rainfall Regimes on Plant-Soil Feedback of a Semi-Arid Grassland.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Plant-soil feedback responses to drought are species-specific and only marginally predicted by root traits.Plant and soil · 2025Article
- Responses of Soil Microbial Survival Strategies and Functional Changes to Wet-Dry Cycle Events.Microorganisms · 2023Article
- Role of plant relatedness in plant-soil feedback dynamics of sympatricEcology and evolution · 2023Article
- A quantitative synthesis of soil microbial effects on plant species coexistence.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Changes in precipitation patterns can destabilize plant species coexistence via changes in plant-soil feedback.Nature ecology & evolution · 2022Article
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Abstract
Negative plant-soil feedbacks can serve as a mechanism for plant species coexistence. Despite predicted changes in precipitation patterns due to climate change, little is known as to how the strength and direction of feedbacks change under differing soil moisture regimes. We performed a fully reciprocal greenhouse experiment where seedlings of two co-occurring Asclepias spp. (milkweed) were grown either with their own or the other species' microbial communities under high or low watering treatments. We found that seedlings of each species were smaller when exposed to conspecific relative to heterospecific soil biota, perhaps due to a build-up of specific soil pathogens. Importantly, this negative feedback diminished under reduced water-availability, and also in the absence of live soil organisms. Our findings suggest that the ability for plants to coexist may be fundamentally altered in areas that face increased drought.
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