ArticleCommunications biology2021
Plant-soil feedbacks help explain biodiversity-productivity relationships.
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- Can plant-soil feedbacks scale up from individual species to communities: tests of the richness and biomass-ratio hypotheses.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- Impact of Dominant Species Shift in Herbaceous Vegetation Beneath Sand-Fixing Plantations on Soil Microbial Communities Involved in Organic P Mineralization and Inorganic P Solubilization.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Plant-soil feedback and plant invasion: effect of soil conditioning on native and invasiveFrontiers in plant science · 2024Article
- Dilution of specialist pathogens drives productivity benefits from diversity in plant mixtures.Nature communications · 2023Article
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- Evaluation of Legume-Rhizobial Symbiotic Interactions Beyond Nitrogen Fixation That Help the Host Survival and Diversification in Hostile Environments.Microorganisms · 2023Review
- Using root economics traits to predict biotic plant soil-feedbacks.Plant and soil · 2023Article
- Drought soil legacy alters drivers of plant diversity-productivity relationships in oldfield systems.Science advances · 2022Article
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Abstract
Species-rich plant communities can produce twice as much aboveground biomass as monocultures, but the mechanisms remain unresolved. We tested whether plant-soil feedbacks (PSFs) can help explain these biodiversity-productivity relationships. Using a 16-species, factorial field experiment we found that plants created soils that changed subsequent plant growth by 27% and that this effect increased over time. When incorporated into simulation models, these PSFs improved predictions of plant community growth and explained 14% of overyielding. Here we show quantitative, field-based evidence that diversity maintains productivity by suppressing plant disease. Though this effect alone was modest, it helps constrain the role of factors, such as niche partitioning, that have been difficult to quantify. This improved understanding of biodiversity-productivity relationships has implications for agriculture, biofuel production and conservation.
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