ArticleGlobal change biology2019
Drought decreases incorporation of recent plant photosynthate into soil food webs regardless of their trophic complexity.
Article in Global change biology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Relationships between root exudation and root morphological and architectural traits vary with growing season.Tree physiology · 2024Article
- Land management shapes drought responses of dominant soil microbial taxa across grasslands.Nature communications · 2024Article
- The response of litter decomposition to extreme drought modified by plant species, plant part, and soil depth in a temperate grassland.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Intensive grassland management disrupts below-ground multi-trophic resource transfer in response to drought.Nature communications · 2022Article
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- Soil microbial community responses to climate extremes: resistance, resilience and transitions to alternative states.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Climate change effects on plant-soil feedbacks and consequences for biodiversity and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems.Science advances · 2019Review
- Drought decreases incorporation of recent plant photosynthate into soil food webs regardless of their trophic complexity.Global change biology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Theory suggests that more complex food webs promote stability and can buffer the effects of perturbations, such as drought, on soil organisms and ecosystem functions. Here, we tested experimentally how soil food web trophic complexity modulates the response to drought of soil functions related to carbon cycling and the capture and transfer below-ground of recent photosynthate by plants. We constructed experimental systems comprising soil communities with one, two or three trophic levels (microorganisms, detritivores and predators) and subjected them to drought. We investigated how food web trophic complexity in interaction with drought influenced litter decomposition, soil CO
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