ArticleCommunications biology2020
Higher tree diversity increases soil microbial resistance to drought.
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- Plant Species Diversity Improves Soil Physicochemical Traits and Modulates Soil Microbial Community Structure, with a Pronounced Enhancement of Fungal Diversity in Urban Forests.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- 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
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- Impact of warmer and drier conditions on tree photosynthetic properties and the role of species interactions.The New phytologist · 2022Article
- Rhizosphere soil bacterial communities and nitrogen cycling affected by deciduous and evergreen tree species.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Effects of Tree Composition and Soil Depth on Structure and Functionality of Belowground Microbial Communities in Temperate European Forests.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Contrasting Effects of Forest Type and Stand Age on Soil Microbial Activities: An Analysis of Local Scale Variability.Biology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Predicted increases in drought frequency and severity may change soil microbial functioning. Microbial resistance and recovery to drought depend on plant community characteristics, among other factors, yet how changes in plant diversity modify microbial drought responses is uncertain. Here, we assessed how repeated drying-rewetting cycles affect soil microbial functioning and whether tree species diversity modifies these effects with a microcosm experiment using soils from different European forests. Our results show that microbial aerobic respiration and denitrification decline under drought but are similar in single and mixed tree species forests. However, microbial communities from mixed forests resist drought better than those from mono-specific forests. This positive tree species mixture effect is robust across forests differing in environmental conditions and species composition. Our data show that mixed forests mitigate drought effects on soil microbial processes, suggesting greater stability of biogeochemical cycling in mixed forests should drought frequency increase in the future.
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